Very basic question re firefox and thunderbird [SOLVED]

albright · Last edited by albright on Sun Jan 22, 2012 9:08 pm; edited 1 time in total

Hi all. Can't seem to find the answer to this anywhere ...

I use kde 4.7.4 but have firefox installed and - as many of you
are aware - kmail is worthless at the moment, so I use thunderbird
for email.

Here's the problem: by default both thunderbird and firefox open
file dialogues are set to show hidden files

I want them to by default NOT show hidden files

(I know I can use ctrl-h or right click to toggle show hidden files,
but I want the default behaviour to change.)

Any advice welcome and TIA
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cbx550f · Posted: Sat Jan 21, 2012 8:20 pm Post subject:

Not running KDE anymore, so I cannot test, but is it just that you are setting other file browsers to show hidden files, and KDE is carrying that over?
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VoidMage · Watchman Joined: 14 Oct 2006 Posts: 6196

You could try .config/gtk-2.0/gtkfilechooser.ini (if it exists) and toggle ShowHidden there, though I'm not sure if firefox follows it (it's sometimes hard to tell, what's gtk in firefox and what's not).

albright · Posted: Sun Jan 22, 2012 9:07 pm Post subject:

thanks v. much VoidMage, that got it ...
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