I recently converted to Linux and usually on windows there’s a little image preview for each Krita document showing the picture. However on Linux I haven’t been able to get these small previews to appear. Is it possible to make it work for Linux or is that just out of the question for the Linux vers…

I think you mean the small thumbnails in the file manager, but it would be good if you could specify exactly where you are missing document preview icons, or which ones they are if I am wrong. Which version of Krita are you using? Where did you get it from, or what distribution form does it have? …

I use Linux Kubuntu and OpenSuSe. Both have the KDE Plasma graphical interface. My file manager is Dolphin. I have previews for all Krita files. [krita_kubuntu]

If you’re on a Fedora based distro, I DID saw somewhere they changed something about the app that works on the thumbnails on the update (not the file manager itself, it was something else), unsure about where I found the solution, but if it’s your case, I can try finding it again

I’m on KDE too and thumbnails for KRA files work right out of the box. The only thing I had to change at some point is to configure the file browser to also generate thumbnails for files larger than 3 MB but I don’t know if this still has to be done.

By the way, I remembered that once there was a bug in Dolphin preventing it from displaying the thumbnails. So I asked my trusted search engine how to fix it: To patch it, you need to open the file dolphinrc in the ~/.config folder with an editor and delete the [PreviewSettings] section. Then save …

How you installed Krita does make a difference. See this post for Appimage: [image] How to display .drl files in Linux? General Questions Dolphin will give you .kra thumbnails as long as you configure it under Configure > Configure Dolphin > General > Previews >…

Can Krita Document preview icons appear on Linux?

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Paint4Thought November 18, 2025, 4:19pm 7

How you installed Krita does make a difference. See this post for Appimage: