Show file system instead of "places" in gtk file chooser
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In almost any program, when I click on
This is extremely annoying. I am not using
open
, a file chooser dialog opens as shown below. This dialog shows Recent
, Home
, Desktop
and so on.

Desktop
to store data, and I don't care about Recent
. I would like to get consistently same view each time the open dialog appears, regardless of what I happen to have opened recently.
Also, it can be seen on my screenshot, how idiotic this dialog window is. I have tmpfs
mounted on /tmp
, and another tmpfs
mounted in /home//tmp
.
Yet, in the Locations
list, these two mountpoints are only referred to as tmp
and are indistinguishable.
Ideally on the left, I would like to see my home directory in the upper part, and plain good old filesystem tree starting with /
in the lower part.
Or maybe even better, only show filesystem tree on the left, but with current location /home//
alredy "pre-selected" automatically, and contents of my home
displayed on the right.
I can remove Recent
by adding the following to .config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini
:
gtk-recent-files-enabled=false
But still, Desktop is there in the upper part, and the absolute chaos of randomly assembled shares is there in the lower part.
**In GTK2/GTK3 how can I bring back some order and logic to the file chooser, as described above ?**
**Update June, 2020: I am using Openbox on Debian 10, with GTK3 library without any desktop environment. Also I have updated the screenshot.**
Asked by Martin Vegter
(598 rep)
Jun 1, 2014, 10:15 PM
Last activity: Jan 5, 2023, 04:15 PM
Last activity: Jan 5, 2023, 04:15 PM