How to see photo icons in Lubuntu file manager

Question

In File Manager PCManFM, when I open a folder with pictures, I can only see the icon that represents a picture file.

I would like to be able to see the icons of the pictures as those pictures themselves. Otherwise, I have to open the pictures in image viewer and flip through all photos in order to find the one I'm looking for, or to know which photo is which.

I have tried and tried, and searched for the answer here before asking this.

How would I do this?

Related: http://askubuntu.com/questions/301503/lxde-pcmanfm-thumbnails-of-images-2mb-are-not-shown — Elder Geek, Mar 25 '15 at 21:28

score 2 · Answer 1 · answered Mar 25 '15 at 20:53

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Go under Edit --> Preferences --> Display, and make sure that you have a check mark on Show thumbnails of file. See image below.

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answered Mar 25 '15 at 20:53

Mitch

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score 1 · Answer 2 · edited Oct 13 '17 at 20:19

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It worked for me when I changed the value for

"Do not generate thumbnails for files exceeding this size:" to 10000 instead of 2048.

edited Oct 13 '17 at 20:19

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answered Oct 13 '17 at 16:52

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How to see photo icons in Lubuntu file manager

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