11.10nautilus
After upgrading to 11.10, Nautilus is only giving me a text-only location box to select files. How can I get the toolbar (with the "up to parent", "home", etc buttons) back? Or failing that, is there a way to switch to breadcrumb mode?
I have already tried changing my gconf preferences for nautilus — always_use_location_entry and start_with_location_bar are disabled, and start_with_toolbar is enabled.
To make it permanent you have to make changes in gconf-editor.Press Alt+F2 and type gconf-editor.
Navigate to apps → nautilus → preferences and put a check mark in "always_use_location_entry".
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To permanently switch from path bar to location bar, you can use dconf-tools .
To install dconf-tools, run the following command in a terminal:
sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
After installing it, search for dconf-tools in the dash and open it.
From there, the setting is located at org -> gnome -> nautilus -> preferences.
You need to enable always-use-location-entry to always use the location toolbar instead of the path bar.
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Nautilus no longer uses GConf to store its settings, it instead uses the newer DConf.
To edit DConf settings install the dconf-tools
package and then open dconf
Editor:
The key you are looking for is org ➜ gnome ➜ nautilus ➜ preferences ➜ always-use-location-entry. Make sure it is unchecked: