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Ryan McClure
Asked: 2012-04-10 14:13:35 +0800 CST

Thumbnails for certain formats not appearing in Nautilus

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.odt and .odb files do not have an icon in Nautilus and some of my older documents are missing their thumbnails, all of which are either .odt or .odp.

I just purged and reinstalled LibreOffice today... could this be the reason why?

I am on Ubuntu 11.10, using LibreOffice 3.4 340m1(Build:402) that comes by default in the repos.

Here's what I see for these formats:

nautilus libreoffice thumbnails

1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    To have LibreOffice documents in Nautilus while using Ubuntu 11.10 you need to install an extension to it since those are not supported by default.

    The only one I know of is ooo-thumbnailer from this PPA, it can be installed using these commands in a terminal:

    sudo apt-add-repository ppa:flimm/ooo-thumbnailer
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install ooo-thumbnailer

    When its done installing you should need to log off or restart Nautilus with nautilus -q.

    It should be safe to use this PPA but you should always remember there are no warranties using PPAs.

    For more information on what are PPAs and risks involved in using one please have a look at the following posts:

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