RE: thumbnailers troubleshooting

["Nickolay V. Shmyrev" <nshmyrev yandex ru>]

В Втр, 09/11/2004 в 17:19 +0100, Kotrla Vitezslav пишет:
> > Anyhow, check this key and then run that tumbnailer like this:
> > 
> > $thumbnailer movie.avi thumb.jpg
> > 
> > It should generate you thumb.jpg, probably this process will give you
> > some error messages. 
> 
> I've checked this one some time ago, manually creating thumbnail works
> fine. Only in Nautilus I still see static filetype icon, not the thumbnail. What
> else should I check?
> 
> Vit

If nautilus fails to generate thumbnail once, it writes file in
$HOME/.thumbnails/fail and doesn't try anymore. Probably, you will need
also clean that directory and then killall nautilus.