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Nautilus Location Bar in Lucid

Aug 12, 2010  By Kris Occhipinti
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FAIL (the browser should render some flash content, not this).

Kris Occhipinti demonstrates easier navigation within Nautilus.

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ooooboontu?

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 08/27/2010 - 16:10.

ooooboontu?

Lets hope people do not start pronouncing Ubuntu that way...

just start typing a path from /

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 08/20/2010 - 20:32.

/home
/tmp
/var/log/httpd
just type it, no need for Ctrl+L

Typical Microsoftishness of Gnome

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Submitted by NewKidOnTheBlock (not verified) on Wed, 08/18/2010 - 09:09.

Microsoft crapware always tries to second-guess the user.
Gnome, being so close with them, is following its master rather well in adopting the "screw the user working style - we know better" style.
Damn Gnome!

Ctrl-L

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Submitted by ghayes (not verified) on Wed, 08/18/2010 - 00:05.

Ctrl-L works in Google Chrome too, very useful as there's no "clear" button

Consider voting that Gnome put back access to the Locationbar!

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Submitted by Michael Lueck (not verified) on Tue, 08/17/2010 - 09:15.

I find it very annoying that Gnome removed the button in the first place!!

Someone mocked up a very workable alternate UI concept to gain access to the path based Nautilus Locationbar. Please see it here:

"Nautilus Locationbar Mockup"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wlmNSrNoA2M

Please consider voting for such a solution here:

"[Bug 605608] button to toggle between path as buttons and path as text gone"
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=605608

That's not a new Lucid

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Mon, 08/16/2010 - 12:00.

That's not a new Lucid feature. Using Ctrl-L has worked to put the location in typing mode for a very long time (at least as far back to Ubuntu 8.04). It also works to focus your URL in Firefox.

Guys, it's really difficult

Stephen's picture
Submitted by Stephen (not verified) on Fri, 08/13/2010 - 06:21.

Guys, it's really difficult take someone who calls themself "Metalx1000" seriously. Could not watch.

Agreed

Bertie's picture
Submitted by Bertie (not verified) on Mon, 08/30/2010 - 18:24.

Agreed - I thought the internet had grown up a little by now, but maybe not.

Just "/" also works in Karmic

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Submitted by akedemo (not verified) on Fri, 08/13/2010 - 00:03.

I have another way to do this in Karmic. Make sure you have nautilus window focused. Then hit the "/" on your keyboard. You'll get the same result as "Ctrl+L" trick.
I guess it works in Lucid too.

what he said, just start

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Fri, 08/20/2010 - 20:34.

what he said, just start typing your path from /

Zooming

Frank Maker's picture
Submitted by Frank Maker (not verified) on Thu, 08/12/2010 - 19:06.

What do you use to do that zoom in your video?

If you have Compiz running,

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Submitted by metalx2000 on Fri, 08/13/2010 - 08:59.

If you have Compiz running, by default you should be able to hold down the 'Win' (Also known as the SUPER key) and then scroll in and out with your mouse.

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Tired of Ctrl + L?

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Submitted by Rikard (not verified) on Thu, 08/12/2010 - 15:04.

If you prefer to always type your location you can make nautilus use only the text input location box.
Start gconf-editor.
Browse to /apps/nautilus/preferences.
Check the box next to "always_use_location_entry" and you're done.

thanks for this! I liked

Anonymous's picture
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on Wed, 09/01/2010 - 19:15.

thanks for this! I liked having both but prefer this over the buttons.

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