Perm unhide hidden folders?

[silverbullet007]

I tried searching but probably didnt use the correct descriptor words.. Anyway instead of always having to hit ctrl+h or unhide them thru the menu.. is there a way to unhide all hidden folders.. or even just hidden but non-system folders/files permenantly?

[mcduck]

In Gnome? Open Nautilus, go to Edit/Preferences, and on the Views-tab enable the "Show hidden and backup files"-option.

[silverbullet007]

Oh yes.. left out that tidbit of info.. Gnomes yes. Thanks for the reply! However is there a way to perform this in the command-line?

[mcduck]

The settings are stored in Gconf, (desktop/gnome/file_views/show_backup_files and /desktop/gnome/file_view/show_hidden_files) so you could use gconftool-2 to edit them from command line.


gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /desktop/gnome/file_view/show_hidden_files "true"
gconftool-2 --type boolean --set /desktop/gnome/file_view/show_backup_files "true"

[silverbullet007]

Awesome, thanks!

[Ptero-4]

Also you use the "-a" parameter in the ls tool when you're viewing files from the shell.