[gentoo-user] Nautilus - open in same window

[gentoo-user] Nautilus - open in same window

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   I feel bad asking for this info again. Holly or someone else here
told me what app to run a year ago but I don't seem to be able to find
my notes anymore. The effects of age I think...

   I want to edit Gnome's configuration so that Nautilus opens new
folders in the same window but I'm not finding any config editor on my
machine who's name makes sense to fix this. What's it called these
days?

Thanks in advance,
Mark

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Re: [gentoo-user] Nautilus - open in same window

[Johám-Luís Miguéns Vila]

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On 19:47 Sat 03 Sep     , Mark Knecht wrote:
> Hi,
>    I feel bad asking for this info again. Holly or someone else here
> told me what app to run a year ago but I don't seem to be able to find
> my notes anymore. The effects of age I think...
> 
>    I want to edit Gnome's configuration so that Nautilus opens new
> folders in the same window but I'm not finding any config editor on my
> machine who's name makes sense to fix this. What's it called these
> days?
> 
> Thanks in advance,
> Mark
> 
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> 
I am not sure if you can adjust it via Nautilus preferences... Anyway,
the program you are lookin for seems to be gconf-editor (emerge -av
gconf-editor)...

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Re: [gentoo-user] Nautilus - open in same window

[Holly Bostick]

Mark Knecht schreef:
> Hi, I feel bad asking for this info again. Holly or someone else here
>  told me what app to run a year ago but I don't seem to be able to 
> find my notes anymore. The effects of age I think...
> 
> I want to edit Gnome's configuration so that Nautilus opens new 
> folders in the same window but I'm not finding any config editor on 
> my machine who's name makes sense to fix this. What's it called these
>  days?
> 
> Thanks in advance, Mark
> 

Previously, you had to:

gconf-editor=>apps=>nautilus=>preferences=>check 'Always use browser'

.. and you can still do that.

But now, you can also just use the Preferences in Nautilus itself:

> BehaviorTab
> 
> The Behavior tab allows you to specify that Nautilus should Always 
> open in browser windows. If you check this option, opening a folder 
> displays the directory's contents in the current window. This 
> behavior may be more familiar to those users accustomed to using the 
> Start Here icon. You can also choose to include a delete option that 
> bypases the Trash bin.

Essentially, you want to turn off the "Spatial Nautilus" function (which
opens every folder in a new window, because somehow that's supposed to
make more sense to people), and return to the 'old' behaviour (browser),
which is what this does (because so many people did not like the new
behaviour, and objected to it only being changeable in gconf-editor,
which is not the most intuitive of tools).

HTH,
Holly
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