nautilus and hidden files in F21

[Joachim Backes]

On 10/08/2014 05:41 PM, Ankur Sinha wrote:
> On Wed, 2014-10-08 at 16:55 +0200, Joachim Backes wrote:
>> Hi F21 testers,
> 
> Hi Joachim,
> 
> 
>> I'm running F21 (gnome3 desktop together with nautilus). My problem:
>> since some days, nautilus always shows directory contents including
>> hidden files. By unsetting the option "Show hidden files", hidden
>> files
>> are not displayed (so far so good), but after logging out/in, "Show
>> hidden files" is on again.
>>
>> I tried already "gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences
>> show-hidden-files false" as in earlier fedoras, but this has no effect
>> (hidden files are still shown).
>>
>> Hot to get rid from this?
>>
>> Current nautilus: nautilus-3.14.0-2.fc21.x86_64
>>
>> All comments are welcome.
> 
> Hrm. I'm not seeing this here on my system:
> 
> nautilus-3.14.0-2.fc21.x86_64
> 
> Can you maybe test with a new user and see if the issue persists?

Hi Ankur,

a freshly created user does not show this behaviour: "Show hidden files"
is reset on logout.

Additionally for my account:

cat  ~/.config/autostart/nautilus-autostart.desktop

[Desktop Entry]
Hidden=false

So, how can I have the same behaviour? Where can I tune?

Kind regards

Joachim Backes

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Fedora release 21 (Twenty One)
Kernel-3.17.0-300.fc21.x86_64


Joachim Backes <joachim.backes at rhrk.uni-kl.de>
https://www-user.rhrk.uni-kl.de/~backes