open dialog

[Jasper Huijsmans]

Hi Gudmundur,

On Wed, 13 Nov 2002 20:05:47 -0800
Gudmundur Bjarnason <slries at dcn.davis.ca.us> wrote:

> Hi there, this is the third time I ask this question, maybe this time
> someone out there has a answer for me.
> 
> I am running xfce 3.8.16 and for the last three versions I have had a
> problem with the "open file" popup menu, the problem is that it will
> not display dotfiles. It is a real nuisance to have this handicap, I
> have tried to search the manuals and I have tried to find something in
> the setup, but to no avail, the only thing I can think is that it
> might be soething in the compiling but I wouldn't have a clue about
> that.
> 

I'm sorry I can't remember reading your question before. This is a
problem with the gtk file selection dialog, that is the toolkit used by
xfce.

The solution is to type '.' (without the quotes) in the file entry box
at the bottom and press <Tab>. It has pretty good tab-completion. In
fact this is the only way I use this dialog.

> I have for a while been running xfce -noxfce because I like the gnome
> toolbar more and if I remember right the problem started when I
> changed over but it doesn't seem to make any difference if I change
> over to the xfce toolbar or not.
> 

The gtk dialog has _never_ shown dot files.

greetings,
	Jasper

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