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What is the command behind the option/shortcut to create new folder in Pantheon Files?
There is no facility to customize keyboard shortcuts per user within Pantheon Files at present. If you feel a shortcut is inappropriate or missing in Pantheon Files you could raise a bug about it at ...
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Double File folder and strange simbol on the top
Elementary has no icons on the desktop, like yours, so you should have installed another file manager, such as Nautilus or Nemo. This is the reason for two icons for files.
About the second question, ...
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How can I add Documents in "Personal"?
I believe you can navigate to your "Documents" folder then right click it. Select "add to bookmarks" or something similar.
Edit: Here you go
Open up your File Manager
Go to "Home"
Right click on "...
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Need help to delete icons from Applications Menu
These are stored under ~/.local/share/applications/wine/Programs. Go and delete 'em.
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Pantheon File Manager Fork?
Pantheon (Files) is (was) a fork of Marlin. However I think nowadays it is almost entirely rewritten
https://launchpad.net/pantheon-files
https://launchpad.net/marlin
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Share folders between users
welcome to the Elementary OS forum!
Since you have already created the group "share" and you are confident that both accounts are members of the group "share" then setting the POSIX permissions are ...
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Is it possible to change the color of folders?
You can, but you need to use a different file viewer - Nautilus works great.
sudo apt-get install nautilus
sudo apt-get install folder-color
You should be able to right click folders using Nautilus ...
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How do I copy files/folders over to locked folders?
Try running files as an administrator (root) by right clicking Files and clicking Open Files As Administrator
It should be opened as administrator now.
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Create your root folder called "gtk-hello"
Its just a regular folder. From the coding tutorial perspective, it will become the root folder. All following components and code will be filled in that folder.
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How can I add Documents in "Personal"?
Try going to your home directory then dragging and dropping it into the list?
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How can one properly paste a folder in a system folder?
The folder permissions do not allow the application to read or write so you want to change the permissions not preserve them. After you can the folder you need to run chmod to allow it to allow read/...
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Pantheon-files create a folder or file on network share (bug)
This is a bug which is currently being worked on - see:
lp:~jeremywootten/pantheon-files/various-fixes-part3-fix-network-file-operations.
In the meantime, you could try creating and renaming the file ...
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xrandr and xgamma settings reverted after deleting random files and suspending computer
This seems to be a little bug - actually appearing in freya. I can't reproduce this in Ubuntu.
I decided to file a bug report on launchpad.
Please may everybody reading this and having observed the ...
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Is it possible to change the color of folders?
If you have elementary tweaks installed, it's pretty straightforward to swap out icon packs, but that's kind of a global change to all icons and I don't think this is quite what you're looking for. ...
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Icons of default folder are gone
Found the solution from reddit.
Make sure the contents of ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs is:
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
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No symbolic links in Loki?
In the Files application, open two folders in different windows, for example, one in ~/Downloads and the other in ~/Documents.
Select your file, now drag it to the other window while keeping the ...
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No symbolic links in Loki?
In the Files application built-in to EOS it's actually really easy:
Drag and drop the file / folder on top of itself (you will see a ? instead of the usual drag icon)
A context menu will show with ...
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Lost Pictures Folder Icon
Besides Paulo's solution, you can make any folder become the folder of Photos, Documents, Downloads, etc. Just change the ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file according to your needs.
This is how the file ...
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Lost Pictures Folder Icon
Is it possible to recover the Pictures icon once the folder is renamed
again to Pictures?
Yes, just rename it back to Pictures.
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Can't copy & paste file from comp to usb
gksudo nautilus won't work, since elementary OS does not come with Nautilus file manager.
But there's an equivalent to that. Go to Applications, right click on Files, select New Window as ...
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Can't pick custom folder?
I figured out that this was because I edited the GTK settings (org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings).
Resetting the schema solved the issue.
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