Hi,

There is .thumbnails directory in your home folder. All thumbnils are stored there..

cool that really solved a part of the problem!!! but is there anyway of figuring out which thumbnail is for which file.. coz they have strange long names.. and ya one more thing .. when are these thumbnails generated when i open nautilus and go to a particular directory or does it work in sum other way,

thanks -- Puneet

Hi,

Strange names are generated randomly and I think there is no way to assign a name to it (except manually :-)).

what i mean is can i know by the this seemingly random name.. to which file does this icon(thumbnail) belong ... surely there will be someway.. otherwise it will have to generate em again and again everytime a view a folder which isnt very efficient...

When you open any folder (ie image folder) and see the view as icon,

it stores thumbnil (if applicable) to .thumbnils

i think thats .thumbnails (no offence just for the one who searches the archives :-) )

-- Puneet

Problem solved!!! used.. totem-video-thumbnailer (comes along with totem player) easiest of syntaxes..

$totem-thumbnail-maker input-file output-file

actually that was suggested by anurag in an earlier thread.. but i had trouble installing it... as one dependency after another kept coming up.. then i decided to configure apt-get as that was the only hope.. and found( www.oldos.org) a step-by-step for rh9 and also some source addresses to be put in source.list...... well after upgrade and dist-upgrade using apt-get.. i had to do this

$apt-get install totem

and relax.. it resolved dependencies.. did everything... worked like a dream

and since then i have found a solid answer to all installation woes.. This for me was the biggest issue on.linux.. but i guess this is only an issue for ppl who have not used apt-get(or something similiar)

I think i should stop singing praises now..

thanks, puneet

final word apt-get rocks!!!!! :-)

On Tuesday 14 March 2006 10:35 pm, Puneet Lakhina wrote:

Problem solved!!! used.. totem-video-thumbnailer (comes along with totem player) easiest of syntaxes..

$totem-thumbnail-maker input-file output-file

man convert

final word apt-get rocks!!!!! :-)

yes it does. YUM too works like a dream ;)

On Tuesday 14 March 2006 11:08 pm, Puneet Lakhina wrote:

any advs or disadvs of one over other??

I'm not overly experienced with either of the systems but I've found that apt-get works with CDs/DVDs out of the box while I've never used YUM with my fedora CDs.