[FC3] Resetting Nautilus windows

[P Jones]

Hi All;

A general GNOME question here; is there a way to set all the Nautilus
file browser window back to their freshly installed GNOME positions?

When clicking on the "user's Home" icon on the desktop, the window lands
in the middle of the desktop. Then, when clicking on a folder in that
window, the next window appears on top of the previous window, just to
the right and slightly lower, and so on and so on for subsequent
windows. But, if one takes one of those windows and moves it to another
location, it will always appear in the new location. I would like to
reset something to make them all land where they did before I messed
around with them.

And yes, I have tried the "Reset View to Defaults" option under the View
menu, and it doesn't do what I'm looking to do.

Thanks,

-P

[David L Norris]

On Fri, 2004-11-26 at 12:52 -0500, P Jones wrote:
> A general GNOME question here; is there a way to set all the Nautilus
> file browser window back to their freshly installed GNOME positions?

All of the nautilus meta information is stored in the
~/.nautilus/metafiles/ directory.  There's one URL encoded file for
every location.

[Xia Bin]

Hi Jones

Glad to see that I'm not the only one who has a habit of having those
little windows in their "original positions"

Here is my solution:

The file that contains position/size information of each opened window
is located in ~/.nautilus/metafiles/ in .xml format.

So I have this line below in both ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bash_logout

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rm -f .nautilus/metafiles/*.xml

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That works for me :)

Regards,

Xia

[P Jones]

On Sat, 2004-11-27 at 13:44 +0800, Xia Bin wrote:
> Hi Jones
>
> Glad to see that I'm not the only one who has a habit of having those
> little windows in their "original positions"
>
> Here is my solution:
>
> The file that contains position/size information of each opened window
> is located in ~/.nautilus/metafiles/ in .xml format.
>
> So I have this line below in both ~/.bash_profile and ~/.bash_logout
>
> rm -f .nautilus/metafiles/*.xml
>
> That works for me :)
>
> Regards,
>
> Xia

Hi Xia;

I missed your reply somehow. Thanks for that tip, it's a good one! I
wonder if there's some kind of setting somewhere that allows one to
deselect remembering window positions...

-P

[Xia Bin]

There maybe a setting related to this.

That might mean dig deep into those DOCs and MANs, and that really make
my head aches :)