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I've just installed the new version of Ubuntu (12.04) and nautilus seems to hide some file extension.

For example in my .local/application, the .desktop extension are not displayed. How to display the true name of files?

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  • Do your *.desktop files have names starting with . (like ".foo.desktop")?
    – Keith Thompson
    Sep 4, 2012 at 2:36
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    So you want to show the .desktop part of the Desktop files. Something like minecraft to minecraft.desktop (without hiding the .desktop part). If so then it is a good question.
    – Luis Alvarado
    Sep 8, 2012 at 22:35
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    I don't think any of the 3 current answers actually answer this question. nautilus is a file browser. It should be possible to see the actual names of the files it is browsing without having to change those files!
    – Whippy
    Aug 1, 2013 at 1:54

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Those are not hidden files, they are "desktop" files. I don't know to show real names of desktop files in a general manner but simply changing them to non-executable does what you want.

So to do this for each file, right click the file and follow the steps:

-> properties -> permissions -> Uncheck: Allow executing file as program

Via terminal:

chmod -x /where/is/this/desktop/file.desktop

But, if you do so, you can not execute the application using this .desktop file.

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  • ahh, ok actually those icons in /usr/share/applications are .dektop converted in executables files, that's why we can't see the file name on nautilus and only its icons associated. You could see its real name by terminal $ ls /usr/share/applications
    – christianbueno.1
    Jan 18, 2018 at 22:29
  • But why in ~/.local/share/applications do you can see those files like normal files even though they are .desktop files? , and they aren't displaying theirs icons there.
    – christianbueno.1
    Jan 19, 2018 at 0:56
  • Ok, there if you double click any .desktop file you can select "Trust and Lauch" on the alert that is showed , now your .desktop file is showed as an icon.
    – christianbueno.1
    Jan 19, 2018 at 1:15
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Nautilus considers all .fileName to be hidden files (files starting with a dot character). Hit ctrl+h as suggested to show these files.

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    But not all .desktop files have names starting with . -- and on my system, most of them don't.
    – Keith Thompson
    Sep 4, 2012 at 2:35

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