{"id":33000,"date":"2020-11-24T16:55:10","date_gmt":"2020-11-24T16:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/?p=33000"},"modified":"2024-04-24T15:55:59","modified_gmt":"2024-04-24T15:55:59","slug":"enable-file-browser-gedit-ubuntu-2004","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/2020\/11\/enable-file-browser-gedit-ubuntu-2004\/","title":{"rendered":"Enable File Browser in Default Gedit Text Editor in Ubuntu 20.04\/22.04"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33002\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/gedit-icon.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"245\" height=\"250\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Editing files regularly with the default text editor in Ubuntu? Without looking your documents through Files (Nautilus file browser), gedit offers a built-in file browser mode to make life easy.<\/p>\n<p>And this is the beginner&#8217;s guide shows you how to enable this built-in file browser mode in Gedit text editor.<\/p>\n<p><b>1.<\/b> First <i>open the text editor<\/i> either from system applications menu or by click opening a document file.<\/p>\n<p><b>2.<\/b> When the editor opens, go to menu (the icon after <b>Save<\/b> button) -&gt; View, and <i>enable Side Panel<\/i>. You can alternatively press <b>F9<\/b> on keyboard to toggle &#8216;Side Panel&#8217; on \/ off.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33003\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/gedit-enablesidepanel.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"334\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/gedit-enablesidepanel.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/gedit-enablesidepanel-450x251.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>3.<\/b> After enabled &#8216;Side Panel&#8217;, click on the &#8216;Documents&#8217; button in window&#8217;s header and select &#8216;File Browser&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33004\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/gedit-filebrowsermode.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"328\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/gedit-filebrowsermode.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/gedit-filebrowsermode-450x246.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p><b>4.<\/b> That&#8217;s it. You now have a file tree in the left panel of the text editor window, allows to easy access user files \/ folders, bookmarks, and full file system.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-33005\" src=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/gedit-filebrowser.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"341\" srcset=\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/gedit-filebrowser.png 600w, https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/11\/gedit-filebrowser-450x256.png 450w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Editing files regularly with the default text editor in Ubuntu? Without looking your documents through Files (Nautilus file browser), gedit offers a built-in file browser mode to make life easy. And this is the beginner&#8217;s guide shows you how to enable this built-in file browser mode in Gedit text editor. 1. First open the text [&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-33000","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-howtos"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33000","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=33000"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33000\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33000"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33000"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33000"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}