[solved] View the path in nautilus

[leopoldbirkholm]

Hello dear follow members of the Linux Mint community,

One thing I miss from Windows operating system is the ability to click and then copy the path for a folder via the Explorer handler. In Linux Mint it's called Nautilus. I wish to copy the path for a folder and then use that information in Terminal to do some experimenting with Java.

Now, I know the answer are on the web. But I cannot find a good search string to find it.

Today, when I open for example Documents, it looks like this:

How it looks today

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But I want to know the pathway to this folder. Yes, I can right-click the folder "Documents" and then get the information. But Windows Explorer has such a easy way to do this. How do I change the settings so I can more easily mark the pathway in Nautilus?

Thank you for taking the time to look at my thread.
Yours Truly
Leopold

[MALsPa]

I don't have Mint installed here, but I can tell you how I did this for Nautilus in Fedora 16, hope it helps:

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$ gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences always-use-location-entry true

Alternately, install dconf-editor, then:

org > gnome > nautilus > preferences > select “always-use-location-entry”

Hopefully someone will correct me if this doesn't work in Linux Mint. My apologies if it doesn't.

[leopoldbirkholm]

I don't have Mint installed here, but I can tell you how I did this for Nautilus in Fedora 16, hope it helps:

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$ gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences always-use-location-entry true

The code in terminal:

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gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences always-use-location-entry true

worked beautifully.

Now Nautilus works as I want it. Thank you so much.

How I want it

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[bhoth]

Control-L toggles the view from default to list view and back if you don't want to make the change permanently.

[chinoto]

I don't have Mint installed here, but I can tell you how I did this for Nautilus in Fedora 16, hope it helps:

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$ gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences always-use-location-entry true

Alternately, install dconf-editor, then:
org > gnome > nautilus > preferences > select “always-use-location-entry”
Hopefully someone will correct me if this doesn't work in Linux Mint. My apologies if it doesn't.

Thank you! I had forgotten that Gnome3 migrated to gsettings, which broke my previous fix for that with gconf-editor/tool. That breadcrumbs "innovation", or whatever they call those dumb ideas, was annoying the heck out of me, almost as much as pulseaudio defaulting to flat volumes.

[irishwoody]

Under Mate the setting can be accessed using the mate-conf-editor package;
in termnal

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mateconf-editor

then:
Apps> nautilus > preferences > select “always-use-location-entry”