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Asked: 2013-10-25 08:04:35 +0800 CST

Remove drop shadow in nemo previews

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I recently started using Nemo because Nautilus has gotten pretty terrible. I quite like it, but one thing is still bugging me: the shadow of the preview of every image and video file (see below).

I've been looking around in the /usr/share/themes/Ambiance/gtk-3.0/apps/nemo.css file but couldn't figure out how to get rid of that shadow.

In Nautilus you get a border instead of a shadow, so surely something is different. I just can't figure out what.

Any ideas?

EDIT: I've found the .png file of the shadow here, on the Linux Mint github. No luck finding that file on my system though.

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  1. Best Answer

    Sorry, you're out of luck unless you want to recompile it yourself. nemo/icons/thumbnail_frame.png is made with automake's "noinst_" prefix which means the image is not actually installed. Instead, what happens is the image data is compiled into the nemo binary.

    If you really want to go the route of compiling your own binary (NOT TESTED, TRY AT YOUR OWN RISK):

    1. First, remove nemo/icons/thumbnail_frame.png and also remove the reference to it in nemo/icons/Makefile.am
    2. Install the prereq package gnome-common, which will give you gnome-autogen.sh needed for the next step.
    3. Run autogen.sh (in the nemo-master directory). This will generate your configure script
    4. Run ./configure in this same directory. This will tell you if you're missing any packages (you'll be missing a lot of them and it will probably depend on some cinnamon packages which aren't in the default Ubuntu repos)
    5. Run make in this directory. This should give you your nemo binary which you can then replace your old nemo with.

    Good luck!

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