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"description": "I had been using XFCE as my desktop on EndeavourOS. I switched to Cinnamon after having some issues with XFCE (I believe tied to Nvidia drivers). Since I switched my desktop environment, I then had a hidden files display issue in Thunar (the default XCFE file manager), so I switched to Nemo (Mint's). Nemo works but for one issue. It was not showing image and video previews by default (only placeholders). I found an issue on the EndeavourOS forum from 2022. One poster had a solution:\n\nIn Nemo […]",
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"textContent": "I had been using XFCE as my desktop on EndeavourOS. I switched to Cinnamon after having some issues with XFCE (I believe tied to Nvidia drivers). Since I switched my desktop environment, I then had a hidden files display issue in Thunar (the default XCFE file manager), so I switched to Nemo (Mint’s). Nemo works but for one issue. It was not showing image and video previews by default (only placeholders). I found an issue on the EndeavourOS forum from 2022. One poster had a solution:\n\n> In Nemo preferences, click on the Display section, and in the pull down menu next to “Only for files smaller than:” select “32 GB” (this is the default in Linux Mint 21).\n\nI did not find the “Only for files smaller than:” setting in Display. However, this forum post was written in 2022. I did find it in Edit > Preferences > Preview:\n\nThe default for Nemo when installed using pacman on EndeavourOS was 1 MB for article previews. I upped it to 4 GB (as you can see above). Problem solved.",
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