I can't find the global settings to fix visible columns in the 'Files' file manager. I repeat: Global settings for the whole system thus NOT per directory.
Thanks for helping out.
For Ubuntu 18.04.1 LTS Bionic
Open Terminal with Ctrl-Alt-T
Install dconf-tools
:
sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
Open dconf-editor using dconf-editor
command.
Go to org/gnome/nautilus/list-view/default-visible-columns
. There you can edit the custom value field with the name of the columns you would like to be as the default view for all your folders.
Also, you can go to org/gnome/nautilus/list-view/default-column-order
and set the default order the columns will appear as per your desire.
mime_type
column ("Detailed Type" as it shows up in the UI.)
May 1, 2022 at 10:46
name
, size
, type
, owner
, group
, permissions
, detailed_type
, where
, date_modified_with_time
, date_modified
, date_accessed
, date_created
, recency
, starred
.
Jan 1, 2023 at 10:57
This works in ubuntu 21.10 :
sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt update
sudo apt install dconf-cli dconf-editor
And then open dconf-editor and go to org gnome nautilus list-view
{ "name", "size", "type", "owner", "group", "permissions", "detailed_type", "where", "date_modified_with_time", "date_modified", "date_accessed", "date_created", "recency", "starred", };
also, in my case I also had to set the key in dconf as I didn't have it before using gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.list-view default-visible-columns "['name', 'date_modified', 'type', 'size']"
which sets it with some default values.
In nautilus
(the 'Files' manager), open the Edit menu and select Preferences.
In the appearing configuration window, navigate to the List columns tab. You should see a list of checkboxes like the one in my screen shot below:
Simply select your preferred default columns you want to see here.
However, if you ever manually changed the columns for a single folder only, that folder got its own configuration, which has a higher priority than the global defaults this method has set. Therefore it won't take effect in these directories.
You must reset the view settings for those directories manually using one of these methods:
To reset all folder-specific view settings everywhere, delete all files in /home/YOUR_USERNAME/.local/share/gvfs-metadata
.
You should do this from a terminal using the command
rm ~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/*
Then restart Nautilus (there's a daemon running in the background as well!) using the command
nautilus -q ; nautilus -n & disown
In 18.04 GUI method Click Files then Preferences and you'll get this:
Check the boxes for the information you'd like to see in list view and close the Preferences dialog box.