Nautilus annoyances - can configuration change these, if so how?

[Stuart Sears]

Chris G wrote:
>     Nautilus opens a new window for every directory, this rapidly gets
>     annoying with deep hierarchies.  Is there an option to get
>     Nautilus to open a new directory/folder in the *same* window?
>     (Windows can do it, when using XP I always have this option set)

No. Not as far as I can tell. Even when delving into the depths of the 
(mostly undomcumented) hideosity that is gconf.

>     When using the File - Open Location option nautilus defaults the
>     location to the home directory *and* selects it so that it
>     overwrites what's in the clipboard.  This is *intensely* annoying
>     if you have just carefully selected the directory you want to go
>     to (in another window) and have put it in the copy buffer already.
>     Can I turn off the auto-entry of the home directory and/or the
>     automatic selection of the text?

Also no.

Welcome to GNOME. "our way or the highway" :)


Incidentally, if you want a filemanager that does behave the way you 
like (and has some *very* cool features, like proper regex-based 
search-and-replace file renaming, or renaming based on audio tags), you 
should look at Thunar, which is also gtk-based so has a fairly small 
footprint. I use this for preference on whatever desktop env I run.


Stuart
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