HOWTO: Restore Nautilus Address or Location Bar

[Dr. Nick]

Many people dislike the new Nautilus view where the full text path is not shown, but instead Icons of each folder. To restore Hoary like location "address" bar

Here is the Simple Fix

If you want it to only last for the current session hit CTRL+L

When you are done with it and want the "new" view back , click in the location bar and simply push "esc"

To make it permanemt:
Open Applications->System Tools -> Configuration Editor
find the entry
"/apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_location_entry"
and click the checkbox on

[william_nbg]

Thanks a lot.

Little tips like these make using Ubuntu all the more fun.

[denisesballs]

It's amazing how simple ctrl+L just made me so happy.

[tseliot]

Thanks, now it's better.

[LaSSarD]

ok then you need to ctrl+L everytime you open nautilus ^^

[`GooZ´]

Thanks ALOT! This should be implemented somewhere in the system -> preferences menu.

[waffen]

and exist another ctrl+ ??? to restore the view? :-)

Thanks!

[Dr. Nick]

and exist another ctrl+ ??? to restore the view? :-)

Thanks!

hmm I will make this interesting, Im going through every ctrl+? combo and will post a nice little keyboard shortcut guide aswell :)

ctrl+w Closes nautilus
ctrl+r Refreshes
ctrl+s Starts selection patern dialog
ctrl+x Clears address bar so you can type any location
ctrl+b Bookmark Editor
ctrl+n Opens a new window with old view restored
ctrl+"+ or -" changes zoom
ctrl+1 or 2 changes views

I dont see anything that changes it back though, ctrl + n is the closest but it open back to your home directory

EDIT
Found out how to get back to button view without closing/re-openig. Pretty simple actualy, a bit to simple I thought it wouldnt work but it did :)

just push "esc" :) :)
If you click a folder to open while in location view then you have to click in the location bar then esc, if you hit ctrl+l then click nothing then esc will take you back fine

I added this up to the top post aswell

[dartakaum]

how do i make that not using gnome? :b

[kaamos]

use this commad in terminal
gconf-editor

[dartakaum]

thanks! :)

and how to put the left tab with small icons?

and take text and use small icons from the main toolbar?

and at last where o i change de font type?

[Dr. Nick]

thanks! :)

and how to put the left tab with small icons?

and take text and use small icons from the main toolbar?

and at last where o i change de font type?
Not sure exactly what you mean, but running
gconf-editor will give you alot of option to configure it. I saw option to change icon sizes and fonts in their one day I think, look in /desktop/gnome/interface/toolbar_style for the text only and no icons if you would just like to get rid of toolbar icons, I belive one of them keys can change icon size aswell. Their are others around their that look like other stuff you want

[mintcoffee]

Thank you! This was one of my biggest gripes with nautilus!

[jbaou]

Ok lads, a whole year later here I come ... Nautilus 2.14.1 Edit->Preferences->Behaviour Tab-> Tick the "Always use text-entry location bar" ... hope this helps ...

[fakeh]

Any idea how to apply this change to the file Open/Save dialog too?

Dan.

[Grone1985]

Thank you very much! I had been looking for a permanent fix for this!