How to show hidden files in Nautilus 3.20.3 Ubuntu 16.10?
Ubuntu – How to show hidden files in Nautilus 3.20.3 Ubuntu 16.10
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Ubuntu 17.10 and earlier
Maximize the folder.
Go to the top menu -->View->Show hidden files:
Or by pressing ctrl + H.
For permanently showing hidden files, you can go to the Edit>Preferences menu item as shown below:
With the terminal you should:
cd /path-of-directory
ls -a
Perhaps you can use something like nautilus-hide?
sudo apt-get install nautilus-hide
nautilus -q
Project page: https://github.com/brunonova/nautilus-hide
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Best Answer
You can either use the keyboard shortcut provided in @cl-netbox's answer below (not copying that, because he was faster and also deserves your appreciation), or you can again set it with two mouse clicks.
Gnome devs just decided to move the menus into some toolbar buttons. Here is where you can find the setting now:
Just click on the second toolbar button from the right (right next to that pestilential hamburger button we already got in Gedit with the last release) and a checkbox Show hidden files should appear.