[solved] hiding dotfiles in GTK file browser

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no_hope · Post by **no_hope** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 3:55 pm

Welcome to my thread!

Is it possible to configure the GTK file browser to hide dot files? For example, if I try to open a file in firefox or gimp the file browser displays all the dot-files. I use KDE for my desktop environment.

Thanks.

didymos · Post by **didymos** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 4:36 pm

Firefox can be made to comply in two ways. First way: open about:config and go to the ui.allow_platform_file_picker to false. This switches to a different dialog which has the option to show/not show hidden files and directories as a checkbox. I only mention it because I like that dialog a lot more. The second way: you can actually just right-click in the pane with the directory listing and toggle hidden files on a popup menu. Works for Gimp, Firefox using the GTK file picker, et cetera.

pussi · Post by **pussi** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 4:40 pm

ctrl+H should work as well

swimmer · Post by **swimmer** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 5:33 pm

pussi wrote:ctrl+H should work as well

Wow - did not know *that* ... thank you very much!

Greetz
swimmer

shaumux · Post by **shaumux** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 6:24 pm

wow nice tip

jlh · Post by **jlh** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 7:36 pm

Is it possible to set some default for this? Azureus keeps showing dot files every time and every time I have to hide them. (It's a mess, most people have dozens or even hundreds of dot files in the home directory.)

shaumux · Post by **shaumux** » Tue Jul 10, 2007 7:41 pm

jlh wrote:Is it possible to set some default for this? Azureus keeps showing dot files every time and every time I have to hide them. (It's a mess, most people have dozens or even hundreds of dot files in the home directory.)

Yeah that would be a nice feature.

Majlo · Post by **Majlo** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 6:07 am

Maybe this will be usefull

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mario@server ~/.config/gtk-2.0 $ cat gtkfilechooser
<gtkfilechooser>
  <location mode="filename-entry"/>
  <show_hidden value="false"/>
  <expand_folders value="false"/>
</gtkfilechooser>

no_hope · Post by **no_hope** » Wed Jul 11, 2007 2:48 pm

Majlo wrote:Maybe this will be usefull

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mario@server ~/.config/gtk-2.0 $ cat gtkfilechooser
<gtkfilechooser>
  <location mode="filename-entry"/>
  <show_hidden value="false"/>
  <expand_folders value="false"/>
</gtkfilechooser>

I was wondering where these configs were! Thanks so much!