Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version r12.4-426

Chapter 35. Xfce Desktop

tumbler-4.20.1

Introduction to tumbler

The Tumbler package contains a D-Bus thumbnailing service based on the thumbnail management D-Bus specification. This is useful for generating thumbnail images of files.

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Package Information

Tumbler Dependencies

Required

GLib-2.86.1

Optional

cURL-8.16.0, FreeType-2.14.1, gdk-pixbuf-2.44.2, gst-plugins-base-1.26.6, GTK-Doc-1.35.1, libjpeg-turbo-3.0.1, libgsf-1.14.53, libpng-1.6.50, Poppler-25.10.0, FFmpegThumbnailer, libgepub, and libopenraw

Installation of Tumbler

Install Tumbler by running the following commands: 

./configure --prefix=/usr --sysconfdir=/etc &&
make

This package does not come with a test suite.

Now, as the root user: 

make install

Finally, remove a systemd unit which is useless on a SysV system: 

rm -fv /usr/lib/systemd/user/tumblerd.service

Contents

Installed Programs: tumblerd
Installed Library: libtumbler-1.so and several under /usr/lib/tumbler-1/plugins/
Installed Directories: /etc/xdg/tumbler, /usr/include/tumbler-1, /usr/lib/tumbler-1 and /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/tumbler

Short Descriptions

tumblerd

is a D-Bus service for applications such as Thunar and Ristretto to use thumbnail images

libtumbler-1.so

contains functions that the Tumbler daemon uses to create thumbnail images