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vanagon
September 28th, 2012, 08:27 PM
This is driving me crazy...

In file selection dialogs (e.g., what comes up if you do File->Open in firefox, emacs, or whatever) there is no textbox in which I can just type a path to a file!

I don't know if this is a bug or by design or what.

How do I get the textbox ?

This is Xubuntu 12.04.

Thanks!

rai4shu2
September 28th, 2012, 08:29 PM
You press Ctrl+L (that gives you a location field).

vanagon
September 28th, 2012, 09:13 PM
You press Ctrl+L (that gives you a location field).


Thanks very much!

Do you know if there's a way to make it come up by default?

When I bring up the file selector dialog, by default the "recently used" item is selected. (I wish I could eliminate this completely, but that's another story.)

Ctrl+L seems not to work while recently used is selected. So, first I have to click on an actual folder with the mouse (leaving the keyboard) and then hit Ctrl+L to bring up the textbox.

Thanks again!

critin
September 28th, 2012, 09:51 PM
This is driving me crazy...

In file selection dialogs (e.g., what comes up if you do File->Open in firefox, emacs, or whatever) there is no textbox in which I can just type a path to a file!

I don't know if this is a bug or by design or what.

How do I get the textbox ?

This is Xubuntu 12.04.

Thanks!

You don't have a 'Open Location' choice right above 'Open File'? Mine is FF 15.0.1