shotwell‐thumbs - yktoo/yktools GitHub Wiki

Generate or forcibly regenerate thumbnail images used by the Shotwell photo manager program.

shotwell-thumbs [options]

Where:

• <options> is a combination of:
  • -h Print out help message and exit
  • -r Regenerate and overwrite thumbnail even if it exists
  • -128 Generate 128x128 thumbnail
  • -360 Generate 360x360 thumbnail

If neither -128 nor -360 is given, both sizes are (re)generated.

• Obviously, the Shotwell application and its database
• sqlite3 program installed:

  sudo apt install sqlite3

# Generate all missing image thumbnails
shotwell-thumbs

# Forcibly regenerate all big (360 pixel) thumbnails
shotwell-thumbs -r -360

• Script source code on GitHub.