No preview of pictures and video on ubuntu desktop

[enigma20100]

Why is it that neither Ubuntu 24,4 or ubuntu 24.10 shows previews of pictures and videos on the desktop anymore. ? it worked perfectly fine on Ubuntu 23.10 so what happend.? and why hasent it been fixed?

[Dennis N]

Image thumbnails should show (see attached image of a test) when set to do so. For a video, I see a 'play' icon only. Whether to show image thumbnails is enabled in Files > Preferences, and also the on/off setting of 'show image thumbnails' in the 'Desktop Icons NG' gnome-shell extension. The extension itself must also be 'on'.

System: Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

[him610]

Perhaps you are thinking about iconified file settings in your files application. This is what I get using thunar (Xubuntu)- This is a jpg file....
viking.jpg

[enigma20100]

you sure you are on the newest version of ubuntu? it simply doesnt work.

[him610]

Files as icons...

Linux ma90x 6.8.0-45-generic #45-Ubuntu SMP PREEMPT_DYNAMIC Fri Aug 30 12:02:04 UTC 2024 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
No LSB modules are available.
Distributor ID:	Ubuntu
Description:	Ubuntu 24.04.1 LTS
Release:	24.04
Codename:	noble
XFCE

[tristanvillers]

Hello. Same problem here. Except removing "cache", nothing is working. New pictures don't show thumbnails on desktop.
Ubuntu 24.04.1 on P50 Lenovo, driver Nvidia enabled.
regards

[thetuc]

hello same problem here
tried that solution below, found on 'ask ubuntu' which seems to work for some people but not for me


Add "GSK_RENDERER=gl" to /etc/environment file
Run rm -rf ~/.cache/thumbnails/fail
Either restart or execute sudo systemctl restart gdm.service

[him610]

Don't know if it will work for you or not, but try it anyway - from your in-focus file manager (whatever it may be),
Ctrl 3, Ctrl 2, Ctrl 1

Ctrl 1 should show iconified files