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lptr
July 18th, 2012, 06:00 AM
Hi out there,

maybe anyone found a solution to this? I regularly need to have complete (mostly very long) path names. In the past (Gnome2) I took this from navigating with nautilus to target folder copying the complete line from address bar.

As it seems address bar is gone, this is not possible anymore.

Any solution to this?

mc4man
July 18th, 2012, 06:14 AM
Did you try Ctrl+l in nautilus?

kmsalex
July 18th, 2012, 06:14 AM
Hi out there,

maybe anyone found a solution to this? I regularly need to have complete (mostly very long) path names. In the past (Gnome2) I took this from navigating with nautilus to target folder copying the complete line from address bar.

As it seems address bar is gone, this is not possible anymore.

Any solution to this?


Go up to the top hover over "Go' then find "Location"

That will give you that classic url style navigation bar, or you could just use PCManFM like I do XD Much much more responsives system with out Nautilus running in the background.

lptr
July 18th, 2012, 06:16 AM
Ah ! Found it myself.

Shortcut Ctrl-L does switch to navigation bar containing complete path.

Would be nice to have this activated through mouse anyhow.

kmsalex
July 18th, 2012, 06:19 AM
Ah ! Found it myself.

Shortcut Ctrl-L does switch to navigation bar containing complete path.

Would be nice to have this activated through mouse anyhow.

Did you see my post on how to do with mouse?

lptr
July 18th, 2012, 06:23 AM
Did you try Ctrl+l in nautilus?

Thanks for reply. No I did not. My previous post overlapped with both other posts.

Last year I 'played' around with Unity somewhat on a netbook I bought for vacation.

Since Monday however I started working with it. A small but significant shift. I find Unity not that bad (compared to others). Many things are very different, yes. Hard to find for those working for years with Gnome or KDE.

stinkeye
July 18th, 2012, 06:23 AM
...also just right clicking on the file or folder and selecting copy
will enable you to paste the path into a text editor.
You can do the same with the location buttons.

lptr
July 18th, 2012, 06:28 AM
Did you see my post on how to do with mouse?
No. We are writing in parallel as it seems :)

Funny. Having another spot. Now I'm 'just' having that address bar. How to revert to this other 'button style' navigation?

lptr
July 18th, 2012, 06:30 AM
...also just right clicking on the file or folder and selecting copy
will enable you to paste the path into a text editor.

Thanks. That's valuable!