Running thunar as root does not show thumbnails

Name                  : tumbler
Version               : 4.18.0-1
Description           : Thumbnail service implementing the thumbnail management D-Bus specification
URL                   : https://docs.xfce.org/xfce/tumbler/start
Licenses              : GPL2 LGPL
Repository            : extra
Installed Size        : 899.4 kB
Groups                : xfce4
Depends On            : libxfce4util gdk-pixbuf2
Optional Dependencies : ffmpegthumbnailer: video thumbnails [Installed]
                        poppler-glib: PDF thumbnails [Installed]
                        libgsf: ODF thumbnails [Installed]
                        libgepub: EPUB thumbnails [Installed]
                        libopenraw: RAW thumbnails [Installed]
                        freetype2: font thumbnails [Installed]
Required By           : --
Optional For          : thunar
Provides              : --
Replaces              : --
Conflicts With        : --
Packager              : Evangelos Foutras <foutrelis@archlinux.org>
Build Date            : Thu 15 Dec 2022 07:51:39 AM CST
Install Date          : Wed 21 Dec 2022 01:00:43 PM CST
Install Reason        : Explicitly installed
Validated By          : Signature
Backup files          : /etc/xdg/tumbler/tumbler.rc

As you can see all libs/progs that are required are installed.
If Thunar is run a regular user thumbnails display.
Any ideas

Stop running GUI programms as root.

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Perhaps at the XFCE forum

What @ xabbu said.

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If you run it inside your user account - but as root instead - I’m not surprized.

Running it that way will probably introduce even more problems - messed up file and directory permissions are likely.

as others said: don’t do that
a rhetorical question: Why did you feel the need to do that?

If you log in as root via display manager (which you should not do - probably also cannot do without some fiddling around …)
it would work as expected.

Did you know that thunar is run as a daemon process? … in the user account’s context?

tumbler, by itself, will likely work as expected - just not in that … weird configuration