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lewis4u
Asked: 2017-06-01 03:29:11 +0800 CST

How to add "Show hidden files" in right click Menu in Nautilus?

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I would like to have this option in my menu on right click.

At the moment it looks like this:

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And I know that I can hit Ctrl+H to show the hidden files but I want to learn so if I want to add some other options later I can use this answer.

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1 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    Yes‚ you can do it with this steps:

    nano ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/hide_or_show

    And then paste this lines to it:

    #!/bin/bash
OLDSTATE=$(gsettings get org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser show-hidden)
if [ "$OLDSTATE" == "false" ] ; then
gsettings set org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser show-hidden true
else      
gsettings set org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser show-hidden false
fi

    And then make this file executable:

    chmod +x  ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/hide_or_show

    And then restart nautilus:

    nautilus -q

    And after this you can right-click on any files and then from scripts choose hide_or_show.

    But if you want to hide_or_show display every where like empty space (not only when a files is selected):

    1.Install nautilus-actions:

    sudo apt install nautilus-actions

    2.Then click on Define a new action.

    3.From action tab, in the Context-label field, type hide_or_show (or any other names that you want)

    4.Then check the Display item in location context menu.

    5.From Command tab, in the Path, type /home/YOURUSERNAME/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/hide_or_show

    6.Then save the changes by Ctrl+s and then restart nautilus:

    nautilus -q

    So with this steps hide_or_show is always visible in context menu > nautilus Actions action.

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