How to get photo previews (thumbnails) in Puppy 4.x - SOLVED

[silverojo]

I'm using Puppy v.2.0, and I like how the Rox-filer gives picture previews like this:



I've tried version 4.1 (I believe that's it--I don't have the CD on hand right now), and I love it except that Rox-filer doesn't offer such previews. It just has one image icon that's used for all pictures.

Being that I deal with hundreds of pictures, this just won't work for me.

Does anybody know how I can enable the regular picture previews? As a last resort, I've tried changing the icon sizes, but that doesn't work. Any help would be appreciated!

[Lobster]

right click on the eye symbol in the opened directory (and the +magnifier to make bigger)

[amigo]

No Lobster, the eye icon is to make it show hidden files. What the OP wants is to see thunmbnails.

Right click on a filer window or on the desktop and choose 'Options'. Then, when the options dialog comes up, click on 'Display' and check the box beside the entry:'Show image thumbnails'. There is a lso an option to save, or not the thumbnails between sessions. If you turn thumnial saving off, then the thumbnails are not saved and must be re-generated each time you open a directory with images. If you do save them, they will saved in a cache which can get very large if you browse lots of dirs with images in them.

[gary101]

@ amigo

The eye icon is used to show hidden files with a left click.
A right click on the eye shows images as previews as Lobster stated.

Takes some getting used to but soon becomes second nature.

All the best

Gary

[silverojo]

I've found the difference between the two methods you guys described:

Right-clicking on the eye gives a temporary view of the thumbnails, while right-clicking and changing the preference in the Options menu is a permanent setting change.

Thanks for your input, I appreciate it!