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marianosimone / epub-thumbnailer

Script to extract the cover of an epub book and create a thumbnail for it
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Not working on linux Mint 17.3 with XFCE #12

Closed peburgos closed 7 years ago

peburgos commented 7 years ago

Hi, I installed the thumbnailer but even after logging out, none of my epubs would show the thumbnail. I am using Linux Mint 17.3, which is based in Ubuntu 14.04, and with the XFCE 4.12 desktop environment. Also, I saw the issue below, but preferred to make my own, just in case the problems are different. So, I will already answer some of your questions

  1. Yes, the installation went successfully
  2. Yes, the command does extracts the cover
  3. (Not so sure if it will help since I am using XFCE, but..) gnome-session --version = gnome-session 3.9.90
  4. That command didn't work, just threw a bunch of command not found (Seems like you forgot the quotes, correcting it gives this output): 17 ? 00:00:00 kdevtmpfs 1586 ? 00:00:00 xfce4-session 1598 ? 00:00:18 xfce4-panel 1611 ? 00:00:00 polkit-gnome-au 1637 ? 00:00:02 xfce4-power-man 1645 ? 00:00:00 xfce4-volumed 7049 ? 00:00:01 xfce4-notifyd 8445 ? 00:00:00 gnome-terminal 8449 ? 00:00:00 gnome-pty-helpe
  5. I am using both nemo and Thunar and both of them the thumbnail doesn't appear.

By the way, I think that I might have lost pdf thumbnails, not so sure if your program can cause that, but thought it might be good to mention.

marianosimone commented 7 years ago

Hi @pebmp17, thanks for the report!

I've been having a hard time getting the thumbnailer to work with XFCE/thunar for a while and I don't have access to a box with that config right now (I'll try to get one ASAP and reproduce).

Meanwhile, a long shot (as listed here) is to regenerate the thumbnailers cache: /usr/libexec/thunar-vfs-update-thumbnailers-cache-1 to see if that helps.

Sorry about the PDF thumbnails... epub-thumbnailer shouldn't mess that up, but I'd try uninstalling it to see if that fixes it (if it does, we might be into something)

peburgos commented 7 years ago

The command didn't work, just gave aFile or directory not found, uninstalling doesn't helped and even installing again the epub thumbnailer didn't change a thing on any thumbnail.

marianosimone commented 7 years ago

Thanks for the follow up. I finally got XFCE installed on my box and couldn't get it to work either. I'm looking into it, but I'd appreciate any other insights you might have about this (if any)

Will keep this updated with my findings :)

peburgos commented 7 years ago

Actually, yes I do. Really not so sure how it happened, but when I saw your comment I reinstalled the program to try do find something new to help you. Unexpectedly, this time the pdf thumbnails are fixed again and the epub ones are actually working in Nemo (Just to be clear: the epub thumbnails still aren't generated in Thunar, but I can see now them since they were successfully generated with Nemo). Kinda odd they both started working together, it perhaps may have some connection between the malfunctioning of both after all.

Github shows me that you actually haven't changed anything since my last try, so I really don't have any clue what happened here. Anyway, huge thank you for still keep looking into this issue and hope you can make some progress in Thunar.

marianosimone commented 7 years ago

Thanks a lot for the insights! It seems like the problem is not in XFCE then, but in Thunar. I went ahead and created a ticket for that and will try to come up with a solution there.

peburgos commented 7 years ago

Yep, seems to be the right thing to do. Also, I am now using Arch Linux with XFCE and everything is the same here, so XFCE really isn't the culprit. Again, thanks for everything and good luck with the project.