{"id":1645,"date":"2008-02-04T20:19:33","date_gmt":"2008-02-04T18:19:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/?p=1645"},"modified":"2008-02-04T20:19:33","modified_gmt":"2008-02-04T18:19:33","slug":"solved-nautilus-show-hidden-files-in-folder-view-not-remembered","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/2008\/02\/04\/solved-nautilus-show-hidden-files-in-folder-view-not-remembered\/","title":{"rendered":"Solved: Nautilus: 'Show hidden files' in folder view not remembered"},"content":{"rendered":"

I had set Nautilus to show hidden files by default, yet wanted to deviate from it with my home directory. But each time I re-opened it with Nautilus, the hidden files were shown, so it seemed there was no per-folder memory when it came to this option.<\/p>\n

I found an interview<\/a> which mentioned Show hidden files is a per-window setting and has been stored per-folder since Nautilus 2.8<\/a> – but the key here is that it only does so in what is called the spatial mode<\/em>. And Ubuntu, by default, comes with Nautilus set to the browser<\/em> mode. <\/p>\n

After catching up on this issue by reading The Spatial Way<\/q> by Colin Charles<\/a>, I became a believer and decided to go with the spatial mode. The Gconf key which toggles between the two modes is \/apps\/nautilus\/preferences\/always_use_browser<\/code>. After unsetting it, Nautilus now remembers I want to see my home folder without the hidden files by default. Yay!

I had set Nautilus to show hidden files by default, yet wanted to deviate from it with my home directory. But each time I re-opened it with Nautilus, the hidden files were shown, so it seemed there was no per-folder memory when it came to this option. I found an interview which mentioned Show hidden […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[26],"class_list":["post-1645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-open-source"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mummila.net\/nuudelisoppa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}