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How to set Desktop to show files and folders from different directory?
Currently, when all windows are minimized and closed, the desktop will show files and folders located in /home/user/Desktop. I want to change this behavior and have my home folder be displayed for ...
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How do I get the unity “file” shortcut to go to existing windows instead of opening new ones
The unity "files" icon when initially clicked will open to the home folder, if you navigate to another mounted device and click the files icon it will open another window to the home folder instead of ...
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Scrollbars arrows disappeared
I'm using 12.10 Unity with old fashioned scrollbars which now have no more arrows up/down or left/right on Nautilus, Terminal, Gedit (it's not the case on Firefox, Thunderbird, Libreoffice, Opera...).
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How to drag and drop upload files into Filezilla in Unity?
I am web developer, using Ubuntu 13.04. I frequently need to upload files from different directories to FTP.
How can I drag and drop upload files to the Filezilla icon in the Unity launcher?
I know ...
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gedit opens different window though it should not
It's a follow-up of Why does gedit keep randomly opening new instances when opening files from nautilus? On Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity:
I double click on a text file on the desktop or through Nautilus. ...
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Nautilus Quicklist Not Working
After having an issue with the new version of Gnome's nautilus breaking the wallpaper, I uninstalled and went back to the version included in Ubuntu 13.04. After a successful reinstallation, the ...
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how can I hide files in Nautilus permanently?
how can I hide files in Nautilus permanently? When I uncheck the "show hidden files" button, the files get hidden. But when I open Nautilus the next time they are always back, which is quite annoying ...
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No wallpaper after installing Gnome Shell [13.04] [duplicate]
After installing Gnome Shell 3.8, my wallpaper disapear and I see only white space on desktop. After nautilus -q white turn into black, but I still can't see picture (Picture is set correctly, because ...
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Non-vector icons in Nautilus
I'm happy Acer AOD257 (2GB, Atom) netbook owner with Ubuntu 12.10.
I once saw that all Nautilus/Unity/Ubuntu icons are in raster and vector formats. BUT! I see vector only.
My netbook is weak, does ...
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Faience GTK theme breaks tabs
I installed this theme in my Ubuntu 12.04 + Unity and all tabs are definitively wrong:
Any idea to make this theme work properly?
Thanks.
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Is there an “open this in another desktop” option? [duplicate]
I usually work with 2 documents open at the same time, plus the browser and the file manager. I'm a bit frustrated by having to move them to an empty desktop.
I start opening the browser. Then I have ...
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Nautilus trash icon sidebar width
When I open nautilus with the Unity launcher the sidebar width is coherent :
but when I open nautilus with the trash icon in the Unity launcher the sidebar width isn't coherent :
If I press F9 ...
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raise and focus running application when opening file in nautilus?
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 with and would like to know how I can configure it so that when I double click on a file, and it opens it with an already running program, it will raise and focus that program. ...
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How do I Prevent the file manager from opening when I click to open a file from outside the file manager
I'm using Ubuntu 11.10 with awn and synapse installed and unity disabled. Whenever I search for a file on synapse and try to open it from there or from any other location, like a quick launcher from ...
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How does Nautilus automatically create a quicklist of favorite places?
Right clicking the Nautilus icon in the unity side bar brings up first a list of favorite locations, followed by the standard "Open a New Window" command.
The "New Window" command is defined in ...
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How get nautilus don't change nautilus-home launcher in dash
Whant to use my own custom menu for nautilus-home, but nautilus change it when it's running. How can I disable it?
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How to reset Nautilus dynamic quicklist in the launcher?
Nautilus dynamic quicklist is not working as expected. All my places and bookmarks are correctly shown in the launcher's quicklist, but none of them is working except of "open a new window" one.
I'd ...
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Right-click on home folder in unity launcher does not populate the bookmark list
I installed Ubuntu 12.04 and I also installed Unity Window Quicklists by following this link.
I added a few bookmarks (shortcuts) to the left side selection in nautilus:
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File, Edit buttons have dissapeared from ubuntu desktop
It used to be that I could go up to the top of my desktop and there would be a file, edit etc. Now when I move my cursor over the words "Ubuntu Desktop" nothing happens. Also the "Add a launcher" ...
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How to define completely new xdg-user-dirs?
I've just configured my ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file under unity (ubtuntu 12.10) and everything works well so far. But is there any chance to extend the user dirs like this:
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How can I restore template functionality after having deleted the Templates folder in 12.10?
As many I deleted the Templates on a fresh install. I followed the instructions in the accepted answer of What is the templates folder in the home dir for? I am running 12.10 and the proposed solution ...
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Can I turn off global menu only in Nautilus?
According to post #15 of this Ubuntu Forums thread about Nautilus being slow, turning off global menu speeds Nautilus up significantly. This is certainly true for me, as running Nautilus as root makes ...
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How to prevent Nautilus panes from resizing automatically?
The "Extra Pane" (F3) view in Nautilus automatically resizes in a couple situations. Is there a way to turn this off so they each stay at 50%?
The two situations are when there's one tab on one side ...
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Computer, Home icons disappear from desktop after reboot
I previously enabled the display of the Computer, Home, Trash, and Network Servers icons on the desktop on Ubuntu 12.04, probably using MyUnity. Today, I installed a custom icon set and after ...
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How can I add a picture as folder background in Ubuntu?
How could I add a picture as folder background?
For example if I have a movie folder, how I could add its poster as background in this folder?
I am using Ubuntu 12.04
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ubuntu 12.10 The location is not a folder [duplicate]
i just upgraded my Ubuntu to 12.10 and i noticed that i get this message The location is not a folder whenever i try to access a mounted media (USB or even my other partitions). I am now unable to ...
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Unity 3d support for multiple X-screens
I've installed Ubuntu 12.04 this weekend and have had problems getting Unity3d to work with my triple monitor set-up.
I've installed the latest nVidia drivers for my 2 nVidia video cards and have ...
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Nautilus hides the window when launched
Okay. So I had no problems with Nautilus but then....BAM! It hides almost quarter of the window when launched. Managed to fix it by turning off wobbly windows. Don't understand. It worked perfectly ...
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Can Nautilus automatically close the window after a file is opened?
In Mac's OS X, if you hold option while opening a file, the nautilus window will automatically close (after opening the file). This works whether you double-click the file or use the keyboard shortcut ...
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Nemo replaces Nautilus on Unity and Gnome Shell session after I installed latest version of Cinnamon [closed]
I installed the latest version of Cinnamon on Ubuntu 12.04 and now Nemo replaces Nautilus when I choose Unity or Gnome Shell session. When I start Unity I have to restart the session for 3-4 times to ...
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Why nautilus quicklist is not working?
None of my bookmarks (Documents, Pictures, Download, Dropbox, Ubuntu One, Music, Public) are correctly shown but they won't open if I right click on the Home icon and select them.
The only ones who ...
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Is there any way to open more than one folders(Home folder, videps etc..) by clicking the 'files' icon on the unity bar?
Why only one nautilus window manager is opens when clicking on the 'Files' icon on the unity bar? I need to open two or more HomeFolder windows by clicking on the 'files' icon on the unity pane. I ...
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Nautilus bookmarks do not appear at all [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Bookmarks in nautilus only in menu, not in the shortcut tab
On my latest Ubuntu install, using version 12.04, my bookmarks are not there.
I can ctrl+d to add bookmarks, ...
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How to restore video thumbnails? [closed]
Im on 12.10 and in storm of changing things my way i unistalled Totem\Mplayer for VLC and now i have no thumbnails in Nautilus.
How to restore video thumbnails without installing Totem/Mplayer combo?
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Drag&Drop in maximised windows mode does not work
I have the following scenario:
Nautilus opened to maximum
Editor (Gedit, scite, etc.) window opened to maximum
Drag a file from Nautilus to the Editor's icon on the launcher
==> nothing happens
I ...
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Unity lens to search for tags
I want to develop a dash lens to search files by tags (the ones that are set through Nautilus). I know on the one hand this program, that does the search:
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How do I remove duplicate quicklist?
Ubuntu 12.04LTS 64bit
When I right click on the Nautilus File icon in the Unity bar a quicklist appears; Documents, Pictures, etc.
This for some reason disapeared... I do not know why.. I guess a ...
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Unity: Nautilus folder opens in background
I am used to open a folder from the keyboard with a shortcut. The alternatives are:
Use Unity Dash with the shortcut SUPER + F to open the Dash File Lens
Open Kupfer with the configured shortcut ...
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Launcher shows drives even when they aren't mounted
This has only happened in the last couple of days (after updates), but now my sidebar shows my two external hard disks even when they aren't mounted (or even connected for that matter). When they are ...
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How do I make the Nautilus sidebar default to tree view?
Yesterday, I just noticed how every time I click on my Home folder the sidebar view would go back to its Places view instead of the Tree view.
I tried using this command but it didn't work. Is there ...
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Unity quicklist for home is messed up
I can't change Home Folder quicklist options. Everything I do, I continue to have:
Documents folder link
Pictures folder link
Music folder link
Downloads folder link
Ubuntu One folder link
Ubuntu ...
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how can i give other drives and partitions short, meaningful names (in nautilus)?
I have 4 disk drives in my 64-bit ubuntu 12.04 LTS computer at the moment, plus one external USB drive. In nautilus and unity the external drive has a nice short descriptive name "mcat", but all ...
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Can't use cut/copy/move/ on desktop
I'm using 12.04. I recently noticed that I can't copy/cut/move files on the desktop, Unless I open Nautilus and go to the Desktop folder to complete the actions.
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Unity home icon replaced with grey file cabinet
Somehow I managed to remove the Home icon from my Unity bar. I ran nautilus and locked its icon onto the bar. This works like before but the problem is the icon I am getting is the grey file cabinet, ...
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Is there a way to automatically reorganize desktop icons?
Gnome has "Keep Aligned", Windows "Rearrange Automatically"; can't find it in Unity. Is it perhaps because we're not intended to have icons in the desktop?
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How to modify the default position of desktop icons
Is it possible to modify the default desktop icons position so that icons move a little bit to right. If yes, how? As far as I know, there is no tweak for that in Nautilus.
When I click "Organize ...
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How can I display bookmarks in Nautilus quicklist, on Precise? [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
How can you access a folder you want quickly?
I read in a lot of websites the new feature of Nautilus: the Quicklist includes also bookmarks.
After installed Ubuntu ...
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How to hide all desktop icons in 12.04?
In 11.10 Using Configuration editor, one used to be able to edit a boolean parameter named : Desktop_Show
This allowed to hide/show all desktop icons.
This latter was removed in 12.04.
Someone, ...
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Synchronize local filesystem bookmarks between Nautilus and Dolphin [closed]
Both Nautilus and Dolphin offer a column on the left to place local filesystem bookmarks or links. All the KDE-apps share Dolphin's bookmarks and the GTK-apps share Nautilus' bookmarks.
How can I get ...
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How do I open more than one directory/file view?
Why can I not open a second or third window, and so on, to view directories and files?
If I click the Home Folder button the same Nautilus window keeps showing up.
