If you’re using Ubuntu 10.04 or newer then you’ve probably seen the borders around your thumbnail pictures and movies.
This is how your images look by default.
You may like them with a thick white border, but if you’re looking for something a little sharper then give my thumbnail frame tweak a try!
This is how they look with my tweak!
The image that you’ll be downloading to use from me gives the thumbnails a drop-shadow effect and gives them a bit of a 3D stylish feel rather than a rounded clunky feel.
Open a terminal window and copy/paste the following commands to install or remove.
How to Install
- wget http://a.imageshack.us/img135/8666/thumbnailframe.png
- sudo mv thumbnailframe.png /usr/share/pixmaps/nautilus/thumbnail_frame.png
- killall nautilus
Restore to original
- wget http://a.imageshack.us/img651/5790/thumbnailframey.png
- sudo mv thumbnailframey.png /usr/share/pixmaps/nautilus/thumbnail_frame.png
- killall nautilus
Enjoy the new style thumbnails if you like them! This was brought about by a thread at UbuntuForums.org entitled “Changing the Nautilus ugly thick white border for thumbnails“.
