Stephan Paukner :: syslog

Linux sucks on the desktop. I’ll write a rant on this soon.
In Nautilus, suddenly, one day, after a general (apt-get) upgrade, there were no more thumbnails generated for new JPEG images. When I clicked one of the icons, instead of opening the image in the viewer ‘eog’, a message raised, saying

The filename “IMG_1234.JPG” indicates that this file is of type “jpg document”. The contents of the file indicate that the file is of type “JPEG image”. If you open this file, the file might present a security risk to your system.

followed by the usual security-blah-blah. I couldn’t examine what the cause was, until I finally stepped over a posting telling that the file ~/.local/share/mime/globs contains an overfluid entry. Remove that entry containing the string ‘jpg’.