open dialog

[Gudmundur Bjarnason]

Thanks for answering my question, I realized after I had asked this
question twice and started tinkering with it a little that I had
something to learn about the file dialog. Basically I tried putting a /.
in the file entry box and it went straight to vim's own open file
dialog, showing me all the dotfiles I had ever wanted.

I guess in the end my problem is that I am not really a hacker, I do a
little scripting now and then, but I have more or less tried to stay away
from hacking and in it's most primitive basics and fundamentals Linux is
a OS that is made by hackers for hackers and for the rest of us it is
basically just hard luck. Don't get me wrong, I love linux and I
wouldn't go away from it even if somebody paid me to. I also think that 
xfce is the best thing that ever happened to the linux desktop. But I do
get a little disilutioned with the whole hacker mentality.


On Thu, Nov 14, 2002 at 08:14:30AM +0100, Jasper Huijsmans wrote:
> 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 afraid I may have sounded a little pissed, I didn't mean to.


> 
> 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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