April 2010
Beginner
464 pages
12h 7m
English
Content preview from Ubuntu: Up and Running
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The View Menu
With the View menu, you can decide how you would like Nautilus to lay out and display your files and folders. Figure 6-22 shows the options available.
Figure 6-22. The View menu
- Stop
This option will stop the current file browser if it is spending too long getting information from a slow local or network drive.
- Reload
This refreshes the file browser to bring it up-to-date with any changes to the folder and its contents.
- Hide/view checkboxes
This section offers four checkboxes with which you can show or hide various toolbars and panes, including the main toolbar, the side pane, the location bar, and the status bar. Removing the top three and leaving the status bar has the same effect as changing the file browser view to Spatial mode, as described in Edit → Preferences → Media.
- Reset View to Defaults
If you change the file browser’s layout but decide you don’t want the changes, you can quickly set it back to its display defaults with this option.
- Show Hidden Files
When you need to see the hidden files on your computer, check this box. You probably will want to uncheck it after doing any administrative work that requires these files; otherwise, they may clutter up your view of your documents and folders.
- Arrange Items
This provides the same functionality as right-clicking on the file browser background and selecting Arrange Items. See the section Selecting Items in Sequence to view ...
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