On Fri, 10 Dec 2004 00:05:08 -0600, Jonathan Berry <berryja@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Wed, 8 Dec 2004 22:32:28 -0500, Jim <lawrence.jim@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > [reordered] > > > > On Wed, 08 Dec 2004 21:23:17 -0600, Eric Scott <scottclansman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > Yo; I just installed Fedora 2 a couple weeks ago (Former > > > Mandrake/SuSE/Debian tinkerer... fairly new to Linux in general), and > > > have been trying to give the default Windows95/Old Mac OS spread-out > > > method of Nautilus's windows a chance... and am about to blow over the > > > top. I find myself running "nautilus --browser"more and more often... > > > > > > *How do I get Nautilus to run in browser mode by default, like it used > > > to?* (The last version of RedHat I used was 8.0... and it was fine in > > > this respect.) Do people really like the spread-out method that much? > > > Or did RedHat make an executive decision... isn't this a community > > > project? Bla. Just in case you hadn't got it, the Explorer-98 style > > > (Side pane, address bar, navigation buttons) was an ADVANCEMENT over the > > > Explorer-95 style, IMHO (Yes yes, I'm assuming that Microsoft was the > > > first to make file managers act like web browsers, but I could be wrong, > > > after all, have they ever inovated before?). > > > > > > Thanx, > > > ES > > > > selct your start button (bottom left corner) > > goto -->System Tools --> Configuration Editor > > > > select apps--> Nautilus-->Preferences > > > > look for the key named "always_use_browser" > > select the box next to always_use_browser to enable it. > > read the message in the dialog box below after you enable it > > > > -- > > james lawrence > > Ahh, thanks. I was wondering this too. By the way, Eric, FC3 with > Gnome 2.8 defaults to the browser mode automatically. It seems > perhaps other people liked the browser mode better as well. Now why > this isn't configurable in the "Preferences" for Nautilus is beyond > me. > Jonathan In FC3 you CAN change the behavior of Nautilus right from the preferences menu. Go to edit->preferences->behavior on the Nautilus menu bar. Check on "Always open in brower windows". You don't need to use the configuration manager for that anymore.
