New Nautilus version 3.6 (coming with Gnome 3.6 / Ubuntu 12.10) is showing annoying text tips on the bottom right/left edge as a new feature.
Is there a way to disable it?
Ubuntu – How to remove the tips within Nautilus 3.6
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You could use this ppa: https://launchpad.net/~gnome3-team/+archive/gnome3
To add it, open terminal Ctrl+Alt+T then type:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome3-team/gnome3
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install nautilus
I can't test it at the moment though.
Well, I filled a bug report on bugzilla.gnome.org and I feel stupid now... This feature still exists.
The solution is to create a blank file named for instance new inside the ~/Templates/ folder of your home directory.
→ On non-English installations, the templates directory might have another name. One can find the actual directory with
xdg-user-dir TEMPLATES.
If you're still facing the problem, Check the file in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs if XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR variable is set correctly. If it is set to $HOME/ instead of $HOME/Templates/, correct and save that file.
Best Answer
No, there is no way to remove the tip in the bottom left/right edges when you select a file or folder showing it's information.
This has been called floating status bar and the gnome developers wants to remove the old status bar also!! The old status bar is still available in 12.10. If you select from menu → View → Status bar, the old status bar will be activated and you will get rid of the new floating status bar. You can use this as a workaround.
There is a recent commit in nautilus source to remove the old status bar completely. The commit can be seen here. The main line of importance there is this two one:
If you don't want this feature, I would suggest you to compile the nautilus yourself.