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Dave Child
Asked: 2010-08-11 00:49:21 +0800 CST

How can I add a separator to the Place sidebar in nautilus?

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I'd like to drag a few more folders to the places sidebar in nautilus, but want to group these new ones separately to the default folders (like Dropbox, Downloads and Documents). Is there a way to add a new separator to the list?

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  1. Best Answer

    This is not ideal but as far as I can see the only option you have short of filing a bug and chasing it through or writing and applying a patch.

    • Open Nautilus
    • Browse to a directory that you don't want to bookmark, for example /bin
    • From the Bookmarks menu click on "Add Bookmark"
    • Then Right click on the bookmark for /bin and choose "Rename..."
    • Rename the bookmark to "----------"
    • Close Nautilus and open it again
    • you now have something that looks vaguely but not very much like a separator.

    EDIT: Looks like there is already a bug filed for this. Add your own point of view here.

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  2. Hack on the code.

    AFAIK there's no gconf (or other) way to alter the places that aren't bookmarks.

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