No "Places", "Bookmarks", "Devices" labels in Naultilus sidebar

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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.

Which version of Nautilus are you running? Find out with 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). — David Foerster, Aug 6, 2016 at 11:44
@DavidFoerster Oh, I forgot about adding this information to the post. It's GNOME nautilus 3.14.3. Yes, I heard of Nemo so I asked only to know whether there is an obvious solution or not. Hmm. Possibly, you are right about the new design. Thank you! — Z. Zorg, Aug 6, 2016 at 13:44

Zanna · Accepted Answer · 2017-03-08 08:06:43Z

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As 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

Nemo (the captain of the Nautilus), the default file manager of the Cinnamon Desktop and a fork of Nautilus.

¹ I know the file name is a bit misleading. The figure title on the source page says “Nautilus 3.14.3”, though.

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answered Aug 6, 2016 at 14:21

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Wow, you were really right about the re-design. I have installed Nemo and it's definetely great! Thank you.
– Z. Zorg
Aug 7, 2016 at 16:08

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