Thunar not displaying thumbnails is a problem I regularly run into whenever I do a minimal xfce install. For some reason the required packages for displaying thumbnails in thunar are never included and I end up having to install them manually every time. If like me you ever run into this same problem, here's how to easily fix it with two simple steps..
Thumbnails in thunar should now be working again, if not then i'd recommending visiting #linux over on freenode irc, or the community forums for whatever distro you happen to use.
In the 2000 era I ran Fedora Core on a bunch of devices including a Sony Vaio laptop & Dell Dimension desktop....
After experiencing a few problems with Fedora I decided to move on & experience Debain / Ubuntu.
From 2009 to 2017 I ran Debain on a standard 2009 MacBook
It was a minimal netinstall with lightdm, openbox & a bunch of lightweight apps.
Christmas 2017 santa gifted me a mid range Lenovo ThinkPad E470....
When I first opened the laptop, I just wanted to game so I nuked the pre-installed Windows 10 & installed Xubuntu 16.04.
The reason that I chose Xubuntu is that I've been an xfce user for most of my Linux life now & Ubuntu was officially supported by steam.
It's currently the 8th of August 2019 & I feel that I need to move on from Xubuntu 16.04.06....
I've just started making fresh back-ups of my system, while contemplating which system to install next. Should I switch to Fedora, or should I stick with xubuntu.. Or or or should I give Debian a try....
Hmmmm....
Once I've finished backing-up everything I plan on doing a fresh install of “SOMETHING”, followed by installing my back-ups. Hoping everything is plain sailing & that I enjoy whatever distro I choose....
My first choice is Debian because I'm looking at going back to a minimal os install. Debian is a distro that I've used many times before, so I'm comfortable using it (unlike slackware). I would ideally install either xfce or openbox with just enough packages to have a fully functional every day usable os. Down with bloat I say.. Anyway my second choice is Bunsen Labs. This distro is my second choice because it's based on Debian, it's minimal, it has openbox installed as it's window manager of choice & it takes a lot of hassle out of setting up Debian from scratch. Bunsen Labs is a super awesome, lightweight distro that came to replace Crunchbang after it ended. My third and final choice is Elementary os. Elementary may not be minimal, but it does have an amazing look and feel to it, along with an awesome community & development team. Elementary looks almost like Macos, only better in my opinion.
I don't know if I will through a minimal Ubuntu into the mix, because I have slowly started to drift from Ubuntu for a while now. I don't really know why because Xubuntu is still an awesome & amazing distro to use. I currently still use it as my daily driver, but all my other devices run Debian or some form of Android.
Xubuntu core is essentially Xubuntu without all the additional features. It installs only the the basic look and feel of Xubuntu. There's no office suite, media player, or any of the usual stuff that comes pre-installed with regular Xubuntu. The best thing about it is that it is around 600MB in size, so will be faster to download and can easily fit on a cd. You can install Xubuntu core from the Mini iso either by running the “Xubuntu minimal installation task” or by finishing the minimal install and typing “sudo apt-get install xubuntu-core^” once you have logged in. Alternatively you can download one of the community ISOs. Xfce is a great desktop environment & Xubuntu is a great distro to use (my fav for a while now). Xubuntu core is a nice thing to have if you don't like bloat and want something that you can call your own.
