Re: [gedit-list] showing hidden files on open - no context menu available

[Jesse van den Kieboom <jessevdk gnome org>]

Hi Ronald,

Ronald Fischer wrote:
> I'm working on a Gnu/Linux system with kernel 2.4.21 and CDE, and gedit
> 2.2.2 installed. When I click on File/Open, the dot files are not shown
> in the list. How can I configure gedit to show them?
>   
The dialog comes from gtk+ and is not a gedit specific feature. As such 
there is no configuration specific for gedit to show those hidden files. 
As for gtk+, I don't really know where this setting is stored. Maybe 
somebody can confirm if it's in gconf, or in gtk-settings?
> I have googled for this already, and found the suggestion to right-click
> in the pane showing the file list, and choose "show hidden file".
> However, right-clicking in that location doesn't have any effect
> whatsoever (no context-menu is shown).
>   
That's probably because you're version of the software is about 4 years 
old, and most of the online tutorials and how to's are not written for 
this software. I'm not really sure what the state of showing hidden 
files then was.
> Any idea what I could do? Of course I can edit the dot files by typing
> their name explicitly, but sometimes I find it handy to choose them from
> the list.
>
> Ronald
>