Switch from path bar to location bar permanently in Nautilus

If you want to toggle between location bar or path bar without installing anything on your system open a terminal and type to enable the location bar

gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences always-use-location-entry  true

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and to disable it

gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences always-use-location-entry  false

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This setting is user based. You may need to restart Nautilus with nautilus -q.

The method is applicable for all current releases:

  • Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty),
  • Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial),
  • Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic),
  • Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic).

Answer edited out of the question

To permanently switch from path bar to location bar, you can use dconf-tools Install dconf-tools.

To install dconf-tools, run the following command in a terminal:

sudo apt-get install dconf-tools

After installing it, search for dconf-tools in the dash and open it.

From there, the setting is located at org -> gnome -> nautilus -> preferences. You need to enable always-use-location-entry to always use the location toolbar instead of the path bar.

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Tags:

Preferences

Nautilus

Gconf

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