Gthumb woes

starnix · Guru Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 530

OK, I have tried with multiple versions of Gthumb across different LINUX distros but I cannot for the life of me get the 3 pane window to show. AND thumbnails dont work. All I want is to have my folder list in the upper left, thumbnails in the lower left and the image window on the right side. I know its possible because I had it working about 6 months ago on an earlier version. But I have tried 2.1.2 and 2.0.1 under gentoo and a few versions under mandrake. Always the same behavior. Am I just incredibly dumb and missing an obvious feature that turns it on or something? I have "Image preview" checked, there is no image preview. Has anyone else seen this? Any help would be appreciated. GThumb is a wonderful program when it works as designed, I just cant seem to make it do that.

jasonm · Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 6:35 am Post subject:

Hey starnix,

Yeah, I've seen that before too. That was a little while ago now. I did manage to get it working properly after much 'tinkering', though I'm not sure how right now.

I'll emerge it within the hour and give 'er a go.

I'll report back if it does/doesn't work. :lol:

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jasonm · Posted: Mon May 26, 2003 7:41 am Post subject:

Alrighy then...

Just finished emerging gThumb, and it works perfect.

It may have something to do with what app versions you have installed on your system.

MY SPECS:

  GTK+  ===>  2.2.1-r2
  Gnome  ===>  2.3.2
  Nautilus  ===>  2.3.2
  gThumb  ===>  2.1.2

gThumb seems to be now (or was it always) very integrated with Nautilus, so perhaps you need the latest and greatest version.

My suggestion would be to open gThumb, change to a directory with images, then Edit -> Preferences.
The changes you make in there are updated automagically.

I set the thumbnail preview size at 128 x 128

Also, if you go into the gConf Editor, you should find gThumb under    apps -> gthumb. I noticed there were a few options hidden in there.

Good Luck!

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starnix · Guru Joined: 02 Mar 2003 Posts: 530

Yep, tweaking around in gconf-editor did the trick. Thanks again.

dirk.dierckx · n00b Joined: 24 Jun 2003 Posts: 18 Location: Belgium

Guardian · n00b Joined: 31 May 2003 Posts: 1

Yeah ! It works for me too.
Go to apps/gthumb/ui and check image_pane_visible

Sam