Running Nautilus 3.10.1 on a DE-less install of Ubuntu 14.04. Running Nautilus as my regular user account, I can't even set the "show folders before files" option in Preferences - as soon as I toggle the checkbox, the checkmark disappears again. Running Nautilus as root, I can toggle the checkbox just fine but it's toggled back off when I switch between list and grid view. What's the deal with that, and how do I make that option stay enabled?
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This worked for me on Ubuntu 16.04:
dconf write /org/gnome/nautilus/preferences/sort-directories-first true
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1This also worked for me on Arch with Gnome, should work with any Gnome install I believe. Commented Sep 28, 2016 at 7:41
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1This did not work for me on Ubuntu 19.10. That key did not exist and creating it did not help. However, the solution provided here worked: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1064482/nautilus-show-folders-before-files-does-not-work-in-ubuntu-18-04-lts– engineerCommented Apr 7, 2020 at 15:19
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Looking at the terminal output for gedit (which also showed similar behavior), I noticed this error:
(gedit:12801): dconf-WARNING **: failed to commit changes to dconf:
GDBus.Error:org.gtk.GDBus.UnmappedGError.Quark._g_2dfile_2derror_2dquark.Code2:
Failed to create file '/home/username/.config/dconf/user.FV01IX': Permission denied
Turns out ~/.config/dconf was owned by root. Chowned it back to username:username and everything's fixed now.
ubuntu-desktop.mini.iso. I'ma startin' ma X withstartxinto a very light tiling window manager (xmonad).nautilushas always been a sport, very convenient when you need a quick graphical file manager, but I didn't expect it'd depend on Gnome's infrastructure to remember its own settings. What do I need to do to make it behave?