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Configure Files to use double click
If you prefer a (reversable) GUI option. You can install "elementary tweaks" to be able to toggle settings like this through the "System Settings" App.
To install in Freya (0.3):
sudo add-apt-...
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list of keyboard shortcuts for Files
Ok, i searched deeper into the source code for pantheon-files and found these :)
("win.quit", {"<Ctrl>Q"});
("win.new_window", {"<Ctrl>N"});
("win.undo", {"<Ctrl>Z"});
("win....
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Run Pantheon Files as root
Enter the following command in Terminal io.elementary.files-pkexec
In the old Files window, press ctrl+L to get your current path
In your new Files window, press ctrl+L, paste in the path you just ...
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Pantheon Integration of Google Drive
google-drive-ocamlfuse is what you want.
It integrates Google Drive as a removable drive into Pantheon Files and/or Nautilus. It is free too.
Find detailled info on how to set it up (and to ...
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How can I change label color for any entry in Files, using scripts?
Low-level sqlite approach
The file-color associations are stored in the ~/.config/marlin/marlin.db sqlite database. You can try to reverse-engineer the format, as far as I have seen, there is one ...
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More than ten search-results in Pantheon Files?
Actually this limit of 10 is hard-coded in the software code of pantheon-files (libwidgets/View/SearchResults.vala, lines 59-61)
const int MAX_RESULTS = 10;
const int MAX_DEPTH = 5;
const ...
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How can I add / renew CA cert's which pantheon-files is using?
Get the CA which is missing. In my case:go to lets encrypt web site (or any other missing CA cert site). Copy the CA in PEM format (the format that has ----BEGIN CERTIFICATE---- in it) into /usr/local/...
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how to make backspace work in 'files'
Alt left/right right is the keyboard shortcut for moving through history, just like in browsers.
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How can I disable sound effect of deleting files in Elementary OS 5?
You can use the Event Sounds option in the Sound settings to disable this sound.
In previous versions of Elementary OS this option didn't work. The old workaround is below.
I think the "Event Sounds"...
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Loki's file manager repeatedly creates a random ~/.config/dconf/user file
Files stores a number of settings in the ~./config/user file (run dconf-editor and navigate to org/pantheon/files to see them). Some of these settings are updated in real time as you change e.g. the ...
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Files: Unable to mount server (SSH)
There are two open bugs re: "unable to mount folder" and reading your ssh config:
SFTP and SMB can only access first time
Can't mount ssh/sftp/afp sharing [$100]
Please subscribe there so as to help ...
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How to set user dirs? (~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file is ignored)
This works for me:
1. Set enabled=True in /etc/xdg/user-dirs.conf
2. Edit ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs as required.
3. Log out and back in
4. In Files, delete the bookmarks to the old directories (which ...
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list of keyboard shortcuts for Files
There is now a list of Files shortcuts at https://github.com/elementary/files/wiki/shortcuts
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cannot open Files in administrator mode
This is a known regression caused be a recent update. A fix has been committed and should be released soon. In the meanwhile using sudo pantheon-files in a terminal will work.
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How to reduce "Files" 0.3.2 window size?
The minimum window size (910 x 640 in pixels) is now hard coded into Files as the result of a recent merge, so cannot be changed (except with a bug request, possibly). It was thought to be a ...
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Securely Wipe/Shred Files in Pantheon via Right Click menu
This should be possible with a contractor, something like this:
[Contractor Entry]
Name=Shred
Description=Securely delete a file
Icon=
MimeType=!inode/blockdevice;inode/chardevice;inode/fifo;inode/...
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Where's the right place to post feature requests?
elementary is now hosted on GitHub. So just go to the right repository and open an issue. This is the repository for pantheon-files
This is an example of a feature request I made for AppCenter.
https:...
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Can't launch Pantheon Files from terminal
The required commands are now io.elementary.files and io.elementary.files-pkexec.
The native apps are being moved to the io.elementary namespace to avoid ambiguities.
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Elementary OS, add custom command in context menu pantheon-files
Firstly, I would recommend putting custom contracts in ~/.local/share/contractor.
If you do not need terminal to open then this works:
[Contractor Entry]
Name=Создать миниатюры изображений [500px]
...
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Shortcut to Open Home Folder now opens tab instead
You are right the behaviour changed - in response to issues raised by others. What you can do is to disable your existing Application shortcut and create a Custom shortcut with the command io....
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Will more git features to coming to Files?
Yes, requests for other git features have already been filed at https://github.com/elementary/files/issues such as the ability to change branch. I do not think git add has been requested there yet so ...
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Right-click > New menu is overflowing with unnecessary options
The "New" list in the right-click menu draws from XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR in .config/user-dirs.dirs.
Running the command tail ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs showed that XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR was set as $HOME and ...
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How do I restore locked files from Trash?
To open your Trash in a window with superuser powers in Loki, run
sudo -i pantheon-files /home/$USER/.local/share/Trash/files/
This command runs your files program (pantheon-files) as the root user (...
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How to enable Pantheon's single-click behavior for the file chooser dialogs?
The Pantheon file-chooser still uses the native Gtk Filechooser widget and this seems to hard code the double click behaviour. So it is not possible to change this at present by changing a setting.
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Why on a single partition drag & drop is 'copy' instead of 'move' in Pantheon-Files?
Loki is still a new release so there are still a lot of bugs worth reporting. Even in attempting to reproduce your situation, I ran into all kinds of non-standard behavior: files that refused to drag, ...
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Cannot open or save files from within applications
This can be solved by overriding xsettings:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings overrides "{'Gtk/DialogsUseHeader': <0>, 'Gtk/ShellShowsAppMenu': <0>, 'Gtk/...
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Enable image previews in Loki file manager
sudo scratch-text-editor /etc/xdg/tumbler/tumbler.rc
At the line # Jpeg thumbnailer, set Disabled=false or Disabled=true to enable or disable jpeg thumbnails.
To enable for png and other image ...
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