[HOW TO] Xcf thumbnails for Nautilus in Xubuntu 12.04

Xcf is the native file format of the Gimp image editing program.

Install

To get xcf thumbnails in Nautilus, the gnome-xcf-thumbnailer has to be installed. Then a custom thumbnailer is placed in /usr/share/thumbnailers. Open a terminal window and run:

sudo apt-get install gnome-xcf-thumbnailer -y
wget -q http://goo.gl/qdhC7 -O- | sudo tee /usr/share/thumbnailers/xcf.thumbnailer

References

Generating Thumbnails for Nautilus using Gimp
XCF thumbnailer doesn't work

Comments

  1. UnknownJune 3, 2012 at 12:58 PM

    The thumbnails are generated after opening for the 1st time the xcf files, but using gnome-xcf-thumbnailer there is no need of doing that.

    Anyway thanks again Wilson ^^.

    P.S: Why there is no RSS for your blog?

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    1. Wilson SantosJune 3, 2012 at 3:14 PM

      The thumbnails weren't being created automatically, even after installing gnome-xcf-thumbnailer, so I created a custom thumbnailer entry that calls gnome-xcf-thumbnailer.

      Thank you for your suggestion. The blog now has a widget for RSS subscription :)

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    2. UnknownJune 3, 2012 at 4:31 PM

      Great, now we can follow your posts.

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  2. AnonymousJune 10, 2012 at 10:19 PM

    I've installed it but I've no previews

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    1. Wilson SantosJune 10, 2012 at 10:42 PM

      If you've got the folder with the *.xcf file already opened when you installed the thumbnailer, you'll need to refresh (ctrl+r) the view and then nautilus will start generating the thumbnails.
      If that doesn't work try restarting nautilus (alt+f2 and run: /usr/bin/nautilus -q && /usr/bin/nautilus --no-desktop).
      And also check if the file /usr/share/thumbnailers/xcf.thumbnailer exists.

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  3. UnknownSeptember 23, 2012 at 3:38 PM

    Thank you! It works in Ubuntu 12.04 (32-bit) as well.

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  4. AnonymousNovember 28, 2012 at 5:26 PM

    Thanks! It works in Ubuntu 12.10 (32-bit) as well.

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  5. AnonymousFebruary 22, 2013 at 10:05 PM

    Thank you! Also works in Ubuntu 12.10 (64-bit).

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  6. AngedoluApril 1, 2013 at 9:29 PM

    OK Muchas gracias señor. Ha funcionado perfectamente.

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  7. AnonymousJune 20, 2013 at 8:43 PM

    It works in Ubuntu 13.04 too Thank you :D

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  8. AnonymousAugust 21, 2013 at 10:23 PM

    Thank you very much! Works perfect on Fedora 19, only had to change apt-get with yum. For the rest, it's the same

    sudo yum install gnome-xcf-thumbnailer
    wget -q http://goo.gl/qdhC7 -O- | sudo tee /usr/share/thumbnailers/xcf.thumbnailer

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  9. AnonymousJanuary 28, 2014 at 3:27 PM

    awesome! this little tweak has immproved my workflow, thank you very much!

    works on Ubuntu 13.10 x64 as well

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  10. AnonymousJanuary 28, 2014 at 3:28 PM

    awesome! this little tweak has immproved my workflow, thank you very much!

    works on Ubuntu 13.10 x64 as well

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