#### Beyond Linux® From Scratch (System V Edition) - Version 12.3

### Chapter 35. Xfce Desktop

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# tumbler-4.20.0

## 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.

This package is known to build and work properly using an LFS 12.3 platform.

### Package Information

- Download (HTTP): https://archive.xfce.org/src/xfce/tumbler/4.20/tumbler-4.20.0.tar.bz2

- Download MD5 sum: 8746afe5822d3564a5cd43945d488db7

- Download size: 692 KB

- Estimated disk space required: 14 MB

- Estimated build time: 0.1 SBU

### Tumbler Dependencies

#### Required

GLib-2.82.5

#### Optional

cURL-8.12.1, FreeType-2.13.3, gdk-pixbuf-2.42.12, gst-plugins-base-1.24.12, GTK-Doc-1.34.0, libjpeg-turbo-3.0.1, libgsf-1.14.53, libpng-1.6.46, Poppler-25.02.0, 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

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