No dds preview images in dolphin

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For context, I’m on Manjaro.

Just as the title says. I’m getting no preview images for dds files. I think I have all the needed plugins and every other image file shows a preview just fine. But no matter what I do, there’s no image previews.

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BUT the strange thing is that the folder preview icon that contains dds files has the usual mini image previews on it.

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This folder has nothing but dds files in it.

Would appreciate any help working this out.

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Myeah…I have to run those in gimp first. There’s probably some dds viewer out there. I know xnviemp ( whatever the name is) and Nomacs can, but Gimp changes the thumbnail immediately.

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I didn’t know this format.

Put:

[Thumbnailer Entry]
Exec=/usr/bin/convert -thumbnail x%s %i png:%o
MimeType=image/x-dds;

in the file ~/.local/share/thumbnailers/dds.thumbnailer and that should be it.
You may need to restart dolphin.

Source: GitHub - Wolferos/dds-thumbnailer: A small script to automatically create thumbnails for DDS files on Linux. · GitHub

There is also:

Needs compilation.

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Your first suggestion won’t work. I’ve tried it before, in the root directory. That github dds-thumbnailer might do the trick. There’s something I should mention. Whereas the gimp thingy works, it won’t if the file is acually on the desktop ( not dolphin desktop directory). F5 won’t change that.

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It’s called DirectDraw, and it’s used by Windows 9x for like the OOBE and things. “Direct” means it’s using DirectX

6

You were opening camera in that screenshot.

7

No. I painted it. Oil on deer hide.

8

I knew about it by the time you replied, “didn’t know”. Wikipedia has a page for it.

It is good to spell it out.