Text-based location (address) bar Ubuntu Lucid Lynx

Posted Monday 3rd May 2010

One of the first things I noticed when using the latest GNOME GUI on Ubuntu Lucid Lynx was that there was no button to change the location bar from button based to text based.

In older version you had a “pencil” icon in Nautilus that allowed you to switch back freely but it’s now been removed. Unfortunately there is no standard method of reverting to the pencil icon.

There are two ways you can. To instantly toggle between button-mode and text-mode use CTRL+L.

If, like me, you never use button mode you can set the location to text mode permenantly via the gconf editor. The easiest way to do this is to ALT+F2, type in gconf-editor and hit Run.

In the configuration editor go to apps > nautilus > preferences then tick (check) always_use_location_entry. With that checked you’ll permenantly have the text based location bar.

You can also use ‘/‘ to open up a fresh (empty) location bar.

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5 Comments

Aaron 17 May 2010 3:14 am

Well that fix was easy enough. Like you, I also NEVER use the button mode. Thank you very much!
archayl 7 June 2010 8:12 pm

Thanks for the information. Have been looking around to get back the text-mode location. Sometimes, typing is a faster means of navigating around.
hymns 3 September 2010 4:10 am

you also can use ctrl + L
Dud 8 November 2010 10:26 pm

Thx ! I was looking for that
Pedro Silva 19 January 2011 4:21 pm

Thanks a lot! Very useful!