Questions tagged [bookmarks]
In the context of the World Wide Web, a bookmark is a locally stored Uniform Resource Identifier (URI). All modern web browsers include bookmark features.
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How to set custom bookmark icons with Gio?
I'm building a custom live CD with Cubic
I want to add a default customized folder on $HOME, "Projects"
What I did:
Edit /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults
Add a line PROJECTS=Projects
Result:
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Bookmarks, Places nautilus sidebar position Ubuntu 14.04
12.04 shows my bookmarks at the top of the side panel. After upgrading to 14.04 it shows Places, Devices, Bookmarks, Network.
Is there any way to move Bookmarks top of the side panel or set position ...
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How can I keep bookmarks synchronised between Qt and GTK applications?
Does anyone know a solution to keeping the same bookmarks (red rectangle in the screenshots) between Qt-based and GTK-based applications?
Qt-based applications:
GTK-based applications:
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Bookmark position Nautilus
I'm trying to put a folder in the sidebar in a specific position in nautilus like Images folder et al, with no success, I tried setting bookmarks and change the user-dirs.dirs.
Here some screenshots ...
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How do I retrieve deleted bookmarks in chromium?
Using Chromium on two computers. One Ubuntu Precise the other Windows XP.
Bookmarks deleted on the XP and only realised it also affected my personal laptop with Ubuntu.
How do I retrieve my bookmarks ...
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How to recover bookmarks and settings in Space File Manager?
I'm using Space File Manager instead of Nautilus. Yesterday my laptop became non-responsive and hence I did a hard restart (hold down power button for 5-10 seconds). After restart, all my bookmarks ...
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Are Live Bookmarks in Places.sqlite?
In reading about Places.sqlite, it's not clear to me whether or not that includes Live Bookmarks.
How can I access, either through sqlite or by other means, the Live Bookmarks? I've installed the ...
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Nautilus bookmarks to Google Drive not maintained on restart
New user here with Ubuntu 22.04.3 LTS.
I happily discovered that Nautilus allows me to browse my Google Drive contents, and was even happier when I found out how to bookmark my most-often used sub-...
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gedit bookmarks not saved
Problem:
Press Ctrl + Alt + B to mark a bookmark (bookmark gets highlighted in green, and with an icon in the left margin)
Close the file, or gedit
Re-open the file, or gedit
RESULT: the bookmark is ...
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Software (ubuntu), aggregator/feed reader, bookmark based
everyone, hello!
is there a software (not an online service)
allowing to enter/save any urls (of news websites, twitter/telegram accounts, etc.),
updating every X timeframe (hour or day) to check if ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 crashed, how to get bookmarks backup
My Ubuntu 18.04 LTS OS crshed. I tried to import bookmark of firefox and cromoum from crashed ubuntu veersion via live USB trial. I performed following steps -
Went to Ubuntu installed volume /dev/...
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Ubuntu 17.10 persistence of folder bookmarks
Having an issue with persistence of folder bookmarks. On rebooting the bookmarks still appear in the left panel of the "Files" app but clicking them returns a not found error. Any ideas?
The ...
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Completely lost a folder converted to unkown file
this is blowing my mind.
I got a new fresh installed ubuntu and windows on seperated partitions.
From ubuntu, I can access windows partition so I created a folder named REPO_APP inside that contains ...
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Firefox bookmarks: want to save page I type, not the redirect
Using Ubuntu 22.04.2LTS desktop on an Asus laptop (UX305) (and a desktop - same issue)
EDIT
In response to the comment (and presumably the down-voter who may or may not be the same person) which I ...
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I renamed the directory "Video's" into "Video_s", to avoid complications in Terminal, but a new problem came up
I work with a Lubuntu 22.04 LTS installation on a laptop set for the Duch locale.
Because I experienced a problem when copying a file in Terminal from my "Video's" directory (see this ...
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Weird Popup Box While Importing (Restoring) Firefox Bookmarks in Ubuntu Studio - What is It and Why Can't I Close It?
I imported Firefox bookmarks from my Kubuntu install into my Ubuntu Studio install and got a popup box I’ve never seen before and cannot close because it only has options to maximize and minimize (i.e....
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Unable to find bookmarked folders after each power off
I use ubuntu 22.04 LTS, and my problem is that after the power off, all folders that are bookmarked miss their locations and it gives such an error:
Interestingly, if I open the partition that ...
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The default folder for a bookmarked page
My ubuntu 18.04 has usually stored a bookmarked page automatically to the
''Other bookmarks'' folder, but now it goes to another folder. What did I do
wrong and how can I change this back to the ''...
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After Reboot Bookmarks in files in ubuntu 20.04 do not work
I actually bookmarked some folder in files and works good but when I reboot my laptop then when I try to open bookmark then I get a warning
Oops! Something went wrong .
Unable to find the respected ...
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Firefox 67.0.4 bookmark list problems
I just upgraded to the latest firefox under 16.04. The drop-down bookmark list seems to have lost functionality:
I can no longer get focus by typing the first initial of a bookmark;
Neither the ...
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How to remove shortcut directory bookmarks in homes creen?
How can I remove shortcut directory bookmarks in home screen ?
I follow the steps here and "Contrato Carlos" was not there to be removed.
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Delete Bookmarks in Chrome
How can I delete the bookmarks from Chrome in Ubuntu(the right click would enable us to do this in Windows)?
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Firefox.... Bookmark shenanigans
Firefox has been upgraded. I am now using 57.0 on Ubuntu 16.04. To be honest, I did not even know I have upgraded. Oh well, looks nice.
But, ALL my bookmarks, every single one of them, has vanished. ...
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How can I import microsoft edge bookmarks on firefox?
I recently turned to ubuntu and want to import those bookmarks to firefox. These bookmarks have been stored on cloud (microsoft account).
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Nautilus and smb bookmarks Ubuntu 16.04
For some reason when I download a file using Firefox, I cannot see my samba sites, even if I bookmarked them. I can see the bookmarked folders, except for the ones smb:. This is what I see whenever I ...
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Copying bookmarks from a crashed Ubuntu disk?
My Ubuntu disk crashed and I need to get a copy for my bookmarks. I tried accessing .mozilla (for my firefox bookmarks) inside my home folder by booting through a bootable cd for Ubuntu, however it ...
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Strange titles (and bookmarks) in chromium in xubuntu
Chromium browser in xubuntu doesn't show Persian titles.
For example this site: www.farsnews.com
Screenshot (just title):
How can I fix that?
I noticed it happens in bookmarks too.
Screenshot:
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Firefox Bookmarks on Ubuntu 12.04 Start Page
I just installed Ubuntu 12.04 Lt. The Ubuntu Start Page is Firefox Browser, but has no 'bookmarks' Icon showing? How do I 'bookmark' sites for future re-call? How do I download or place the many ...
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Nautilus bookmarks not showing in "Places"
I have set some bookmarks from Nautilus (Bookmarks / Add bookmark), and this get showed under Bookmarks menu, but doesn't show under "Places" menu.
Some idea?
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Can I install chromium on windows and transfer bookmarks in my chromium to google chrome or FireFox?
I had Ubuntu 20.04 on a laptop and had some bookmarks on chromium. Now I want to know how can I get those bookmarks on a windows laptop? I have google chrome and also FireFox on my windows laptop, but ...
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Google chrome bookmarks
I have follow the instructions from Webex on Ubuntu and after that i have problems when i use the Chrome and i have monitor via HDMI in use, when i click on the Folder bookmark it opens on the other ...
