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Quick Tips for Nautilus | Tips

Written by M. Zinoune on . Posted in Linux tutorials

Here are two helpful tips for Nautilus, the first tip shows how to change the location Bar in Nautilus to the text mode, and the second one shows how to divide a nautilus screen in two parts.



1- Change the location Bar in Nautilus to the text mode


Open the terminal and copy this command :

gconftool-2 --type=Boolean --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_location_entry true

This will be the result, the menu bar is in text mode.

If you want to switch back, copy this command to the terminal

gconftool-2 --type=Boolean --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_location_entry false 

Second method ( Thanks to Andrew) : Instead of using the commands above you can toggle between the text mode / breadcrumbs Nautilus location bar using Ctrl + L , the default location bar must not be text mode or else this seems not to work.

2- Divide the panel in Nautilus into two parts (Double panel)

If you want to divide a nautilus panel into two parts Open the folder you want to divide and press F3, see the result in the screenshots bellow:

Before

After you press F3

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  • Andrew

    Also, you can toggle between the text mode / breadcrumbs Nautilus location bar using Ctrl + L (but the default location bar must not be text mode or else this seems not to work).

  • Bas

    Fantastic! Thanks

  • Zinovsky

    Nice one Andrew thanks:)

  • Kaj

    Now, the question is why you want the path in text mode. For me it was earlier to be able to copy the searh path to the clip board, to be used for further maintaining. But by marking any of the directory boxes (mouse click) and copy (Ctrl-C or right click + \”Copy\”) you get on the clip board the path in text mode.

  • http://techsupporttv.wordpress.com Tim

    Is there a way to integrate the nautilus browsing (or any other file manager for that matter) with Zeitgeist.

    I just want a way to look back and see what directories I was browsing over the last few days.

    Thanks.