Ubuntu 16.04 (Xenial Xerus)
Asus X550C
Nautilus GNOME 3.14.3
I have no main labels in the sidebar.
How to fix that? I would like to have these separators.
I tried reinstalling Nautilus but that does not help.
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Sign up to join this communityAs far as I can tell the Gnome developers removed the section labels of Nautilus’ tree view pane during a re-design for the 3.14 release (source¹):
Knowing the Gnome developers, there is quite probably no way to change this through configuration or theming options.
However, you can try alternate file managers like
¹ I know the file name is a bit misleading. The figure title on the source page says “Nautilus 3.14.3”, though.
nautilus --version
or in the About dialogue accessible from the main menu. The labels may have been scrapped during a redesign in a more recent version of Nautilus. You can try alternate file managers like Nemo (the captain of the Nautilus).