Hardy Ugly Blurry Nautilus Thumbnails...

**6205** · June 12th, 2008

If you are frustrated by ugly, blurred Nautilus thumbnails in Ubuntu Hardy, you gonna need this...

**skymera** · June 12th, 2008

Thank you, I've never had problems with thumbnails though.

**Kilz** · June 12th, 2008

I had this problem, small graphics were blown up and looked ugly. In case someone else finds this and needs directions.

1. Open a terminal type in gconf-editor and hit enter.
2. Look under apps > nautilus > icon view
3. Right click on Thubmnail_size and choose Edit Key
4. Change 96 to zero
5. enter the following command

Code:

rm -f ~/.thumbnails/normal/*

6. Close all open nautilus windows and open them again.

**NilsE** · June 12th, 2008

If you also use nautilus in root mode you will have to do the same thing with

gksudo gconf-editor

Root and user have separate profiles

**Kynan** · June 30th, 2008

Thankyou so much for posting this, it's been bothering me for quite some time especially when i edit icon themes browsing the smaller icons like 16x16 just looks downright ugly, why on earth did ubuntu change this?

**NilsE** · May 25th, 2009

This option broke somewhere between Hardy and Jaunty and a "0" size now displays no thumbnails.

Does anyone know a workaround for this other than setting just a smaller than 96 icon size to get variable size icons again.

**6205** · July 8th, 2009

Originally Posted by NilsE

This option broke somewhere between Hardy and Jaunty and a "0" size now displays no thumbnails.

Does anyone know a workaround for this other than setting just a smaller than 96 icon size to get variable size icons again.

Yeah, currently you cannot set up '0' propably due code changes in GNOME

However at least i have changed it from 96 to 32 in both my and root profiles..