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willbeeler
Asked: 2012-02-04 05:57:08 +0800 CST

Switch from path bar to location bar permanently in Nautilus

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As most of you know, you can switch between the visual location entry, and the text based one in Nautilus, by hitting Ctrl+L.

When I tried to set this value permanently in gconf-editor, it doesn't exist. When I tried to do it via the terminal, this is the message that I receive:

No value to set for key: /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_location_entry

I can still switch between the two via the Ctrl+L, but I'm stumped about the fix.

nautilus preferences gconf

2 Answers

  1. If you want to toggle between location bar or path bar without installing anything on your system open a terminal and type to enable the location bar

    gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences always-use-location-entry  true

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    and to disable it

    gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences always-use-location-entry  false

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    This setting is user based. You may need to restart Nautilus with nautilus -q.

    The method is applicable for all current releases:

    • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty),
    • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial),
    • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic),
    • Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic).
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  2. Best Answer

    Answer edited out of the question

    To permanently switch from path bar to location bar, you can use dconf-tools Install dconf-tools.

    To install dconf-tools, run the following command in a terminal:

    sudo apt-get install dconf-tools

    After installing it, search for dconf-tools in the dash and open it.

    From there, the setting is located at org -> gnome -> nautilus -> preferences. You need to enable always-use-location-entry to always use the location toolbar instead of the path bar.

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