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| ====== Thunar - Working with Files and Folders ====== | ====== Thunar - Working with Files and Folders ====== |
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| The {gui>Edit} menu presents the same options for both folder and file selections. | The {gui>Edit} menu presents the same options for both folder and file selections. |
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| <figure "The Edit Menu"> | <figure "Thunar Edit Menu"> |
| {{:xfce:thunar:edit-menu.png?600|Thunar Edit Menu}} | {{:xfce:thunar:edit-menu.png?600|Thunar Edit Menu}} |
| </figure> | </figure> |
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| === Show Hidden Files === | === Show Hidden Files === |
| Hidden files typically contain settings and configuration data which don't normally need to be accessed. For this reason and as a safety precaution to prevent their accidentally being moved, changed or deleted, they do not show up by default in the file manager. Check this option to make them visible. They can be identified by the dot prefix in the filename (e.g., ''.nvidia-settings''). | Hidden files are prefixed with a dot (e.g. ''.nvidia-settings''). Typically, they contain settings and configuration data which don't normally need to be accessed. For this reason and as a safety precaution to prevent their accidentally being moved, changed or deleted, they do not show up by default in the file manager. |
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| | The setting as well toggled the visibility of backup files, which are created temporary by some applications. These are suffixed with a tilde (E.g. ''file.txt~''). |
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| | Check this option to make both sort of files visible. |
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| === Zoom === | === Zoom === |