[SOLVED] Have Nemo only temporarily show hidden files, or have Nemo always default to not show hidden files?

[NM64]

The script(?) by smurphos to make Nemo's location bar always default to breadcrumbs mode when Nemo is opened works great for my use-case, and I'm wondering if a similar thing couldn't also be done for Nemo's "Show hidden files" setting?

So basically what I'm looking for is for Nemo to simply always default to not showing hidden files without straight-up locking/disabling the setting to show hidden files, effectively turning the "Show hidden files" setting into a temporary one rather than a persistent one.

It'd also be great if this could apply to not just the normal "folder" view but also the the "browse/open//save as" file view which seems to have a completely independent "Show hidden files" setting (actually this independence might be something considered a "bug").

[all41]

In Nemo toolbar Edit/Preferences/Behavior tab choose
Ignore per-folder view preferences. Does that help?
edit:
no, I see now that it will not.

edit:
you can also start Nemo like this:

dconf write /org/nemo/preferences/show-hidden-files false && nemo /home/MM64
use correct path if not MM64

That will reset the hidden files to off when Nemo is started.

To automate make a new document somewhere and give it a name (such as nohidden).
Copy the following contents into the document:

#!/bin/bash
dconf write /org/nemo/preferences/show-hidden-files false && nemo /home/MM64
again use your username
Make the file executable (right-click on Properties/Permissions)
Finally you can right-click the 'Files' icon on the panel and choose edit, click the Browse button and point to that file
to launch Nemo without hidden files even if they were previously set.

[NM64]

I don't suppose you have a similar thing but for Thunar on Xfce as well?

dconf write /org/nemo/preferences/show-hidden-files false

Apologies for the delayed response - I got the mail notification of your post and viewed your post before you had made any edits (protip from a chronic editor: if making major edits, sometimes it's better to delete the post and then re-post it but with the major edits so that people get notified of a new post)

Anyway, I find that a more elegant solution is to put your above-quoted terminal command (removing everything after "false") into Mint's startup settings so that it's just ran every single time you boot. While it's not as good as resetting whenever you open a new Nemo instance, having it reset every time you log in on your PC is the next best thing.

In particular, your method of using a script and/or desktop launcher isn't practical for me due to having folders and shortcuts to folders on the desktop, in particular a shortcut to /home/<user>/Documents on the desktop so that files can be dragged & dropped into Documents without actually opening the folder first (I discovered this the hard way a couple of days ago when I just had a launcher pointing to Documents on the desktop instead - that causes file drag & drop to not function correctly as it's basically treated as opening the dragged file inside of the linked program, Nemo in this case)

Oh and psst, my username is NM64, not the acronym for Majora's Mask 64 (it originally stood for "nintendo maniac 64" before I decided to reduce the "hail corporate" and generally just simplifying it to my preferred shorthand and preventing people from calling me "nm" instead which I find confusing as some people use "nm" instaed of "nvm" for "nevermind"). That being said, you're not the first to mess it up - I've previously been called "N64" (I assure you, I am a person, not a game console).

[all41]

I don't suppose you have a similar thing but for Thunar on Xfce as well?

dconf write /org/nemo/preferences/show-hidden-files false

Apologies for the delayed response - I got the mail notification of your post and viewed your post before you had made any edits (protip from a chronic editor: if making major edits, sometimes it's better to delete the post and then re-post it but with the major edits so that people get notified of a new post)

Anyway, I find that a more elegant solution is to put your above-quoted terminal command (removing everything after "false") into Mint's startup settings so that it's just ran every single time you boot. While it's not as good as resetting whenever you open a new Nemo instance, having it reset every time you log in on your PC is the next best thing.

In particular, your method of using a script and/or desktop launcher isn't practical for me due to having folders and shortcuts to folders on the desktop, in particular a shortcut to /home/<user>/Documents on the desktop so that files can be dragged & dropped into Documents without actually opening the folder first (I discovered this the hard way a couple of days ago when I just had a launcher pointing to Documents on the desktop instead - that causes file drag & drop to not function correctly as it's basically treated as opening the dragged file inside of the linked program, Nemo in this case)

Oh and psst, my username is NM64, not the acronym for Majora's Mask 64 (it originally stood for "nintendo maniac 64" before I decided to reduce the "hail corporate" and generally just simplifying it to my preferred shorthand and preventing people from calling me "nm" instead which I find confusing as some people use "nm" instaed of "nvm" for "nevermind"). That being said, you're not the first to mess it up - I've previously been called "N64" (I assure you, I am a person, not a game console).

Got that---my id, all41 often gets hammered as well.
I am inelegant with Nemo