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A powerful text editor for MATE
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File -> Open: no '.hidden' files or subdirs listed #586

Closed gandsnut closed 3 years ago

gandsnut commented 3 years ago

Expected behaviour

Open Pluma Choose "File -> Open"; dialog opens Dialog lists current directory AND .filenames (if any) AND .subdirs (if any) User can choose .filename to edit, or navigate into .subdir to see further files

Actual behaviour

Open Pluma Choose "File -> Open"; dialog opens Dialog lists current directory 'normal' filenames and subdirs

Steps to reproduce the behaviour

Steps spelled out above

MATE general version

1.20.1-2ubuntu1 (mate-desktop)

Package version

1.20.1-3ubuntu1

Linux Distribution

Kernel: 5.4.0-53-generic Gnome: 3.28.2 Ubuntu: 5.4.0-53-generic #59~18.04.1-Ubuntu SMP Wed Oct 21 12:14:56 UTC 2020 x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux pluma_file_open_dialog

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lukefromdc commented 3 years ago

This is controlled for all applications at once by a filechooser setting in GTK itself. Install dconf-editor if you don't already have it, and go to org>gtk>settings>filechooser and set show_hidden to TRUE.

cwendling commented 3 years ago

…or right click and enable "Show hidden files", or use Ctrl+H, or manually edit the location bar with Ctrl+L…