Fedora Bug

Fedora 43 forgot to make the following a default package in order for thumbnails to keep working. Need to manually install it.

dnf install glycin-thumbnailer

Cache

The freedesktop.org thumbnail specification puts thumbnails at:

~/.cache/thumbnails/<size>/

The filename is a MD5 hash of the URI.

Delete “thumbnails” to force regeneration. For example, a setting could be changed, then close Nautilus, and then delete the thumbnail cache. Reopen Nautilus to see the results immediately.

Settings

Turn off and on with:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.thumbnailers disable-all false

Set overrides in: ~/.local/share/thumbnailers

Deleting this directory causes fallback to the system defaults. Most users don’t have overrides.