{"id":10049,"date":"2020-05-09T13:57:08","date_gmt":"2020-05-09T13:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=10049"},"modified":"2020-05-09T13:57:08","modified_gmt":"2020-05-09T13:57:08","slug":"textual-path-ubuntu-20-04-files","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/05\/textual-path-ubuntu-20-04-files\/","title":{"rendered":"[Quick Tip] Enable Textual File Path Entry in Ubuntu 20.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/classic-gnome-icon.png\" alt=\"gnome shell\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-5741\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This quick tip is going to show you how to get a textual location entry in the default Nautilus file browser in Ubuntu 20.04.<\/p>\n<p>For temporary use, you can get the current files or folders&#8217; path by simply pressing <b><u>Ctrl+L<\/u><\/b> on keyboard.<\/p>\n<p>The default path bar becomes a location entry after pressing <b>Ctrl+L<\/b>, then you can copy and paste it for any use.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/nautilus-path-600x255.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"255\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10050\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/nautilus-path-600x255.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/nautilus-path-450x191.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/nautilus-path.jpg 741w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>To let Nautilus display textual path entry for the location bar permanently:<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Instead of the path-bar, you can always use a textual input entry for the location toolbar, by running following command in terminal:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Press <b>Ctrl+Alt+T<\/b> to open terminal and run command:\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences always-use-location-entry true<\/pre>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/gsettings-locationbar-600x115.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"115\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-10051\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/gsettings-locationbar-600x115.jpg 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/gsettings-locationbar-450x86.jpg 450w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/gsettings-locationbar.jpg 755w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/li>\n<li>And you can restore change via command:\n<pre style=\"border:None;\">gsettings reset org.gnome.nautilus.preferences always-use-location-entry<\/pre>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Alternatively, use a graphical tool <b>Dconf Editor<\/b>, <i>install it via Ubuntu Software<\/i>, by navigating to &#8216;org\/gnome\/nautilus\/preferences&#8217;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/location-entry.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"228\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10052\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/location-entry.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/05\/location-entry-450x171.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s it. Enjoy!<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This quick tip is going to show you how to get a textual location entry in the default Nautilus file browser in Ubuntu 20.04. For temporary use, you can get the current files or folders&#8217; path by simply pressing Ctrl+L on keyboard. The default path bar becomes a location entry after pressing Ctrl+L, then you [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10049","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10049","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10049"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10049\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10049"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10049"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10049"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}