Hello, I just upgraded to Fedora 43 and suddenly I have no image thumbnails on Nautilus. I deleted the thumbs cache but they still do not appear anymore. Can anyone help? Thanks!

The bodhi update has been part of the stable repo for 3 weeks. If @hellotalk87 doesn’t see thumbnails now, it means that something else must be broken. Or they updated using some very old mirror. @hellotalk87 Please make sure your system is fully updated. Then please provide the output of rpm -q g…

Hello Kamil, I confirm I still have no working thumbnails. This is the output from the command gdk-pixbuf2-2.44.4-1.fc43.x86_64 package glycin is not installed gtk4-4.20.2-1.fc43.x86_64 package totem-video-thumbnailer is not installed And yes, my system is fully updated.

Could you also share the output of cat /usr/share/thumbnailers/gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer.thumbnailer

Sure, here it is cat: /usr/share/thumbnailers/gdk-pixbuf-thumbnailer.thumbnailer: No such file or directory

It seems to be the same issue as this one: [image] No thumbnails in Gnome Files Fedora 41 Ask Fedora Something wrong happened to your system. Did you delete them accidentally or move them somewhere? the link above shows gdk-pixbuf2 is supposed to provide gd…

I reinstalled the package, logged out and logged in. still no thumbnails. I also deleted the cache again, but it doesn’t work. Funnily it’s affecting only images and not videos: mp4 files do have thumbnails.

more importantly this is happening on 2 different machines which I upgraded to Fedora 43 (and not happening in a third machine running silverblue) so I doubt it’s something specific to my installation.

Can you try sudo dnf install glycin totem-video-thumbnailer The command Kamil asked you to execute showed that those two aren’t installed, and they are responsible for generating thumbnails. Gdk-pixbuf2 was replaced with glycin in GNOME 49.

I just installed totem-video-thumbnailer but glycin is not found Updating and loading repositories: Repositories loaded. Failed to resolve the transaction: No match for argument: glycin You can try to add to command line: --skip-unavailable to skip unavailable packages

This worked! I now have thumbnails! Thank you so much :heart:

[Fedora 43] no thumbnails in Nautilus (gnome files)

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tragivictoria (Victoria 🏳️‍⚧️) October 29, 2025, 7:46pm 16

Can you give glycin-thumbnailer a go?

Missing thumbnails for .jpg and .png files. Thumbnails for .pdf are shown

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[Fedora 43] no thumbnails in Nautilus (gnome files)

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