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

[Jesse van den Kieboom <jessevdk gnome org>]

Jesse van den Kieboom wrote:
> 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.
Oops, I meant about 7 years ago. It's really quite old.
> > 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
> >   
>
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