Re: Viewing hidden files

From	Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups	alt.os.linux.mint
Subject	Re: Viewing hidden files
Date	2025-08-17 08:08 +0100
Organization	A noiseless patient Spider
Message-ID	<107rv65$251o7$1@dont-email.me> (permalink)
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On 17/08/2025 03:29, Felix wrote:
> Jeff Layman wrote:
>> It's straightforward with Nemo; just go into the "View" menu and tick
>> the "Show hidden files" box. But what if there's no menu?
>>
>> My pet hate with browsers is having the tabs above the address bar,
>> and no easy way to put them below it. With Firefox, it was fairly
>> straightforward with a userChrome.css file. However, with the
>> increasing tendency to write webpages specifically for Chrome, I have
>> started using Vivaldi as a backup browser. Although its GUI is very
>> customisable, like Fx there is no simple way of putting tabs below the
>> address bar.
>>
>> I recently found that it was possible to use a *.css file with Vivaldi
>> in the same way as with Fx to move the tab bar. The page
>> <https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/56809/tabs-below-address-bar-and-bookmark-bar?page=1>
>> shows the script, and refers back to
>> <https://forum.vivaldi.net/topic/10549/modding-vivaldi> for general
>> instructions on how to modify Vivaldi. This is the instruction list:
>>
>> Adding Style (CSS)
>> -    Open vivaldi://experiments
>> -    Enable "Allow for using CSS modifications".
>> -    Open Appearance section in settings.
>> -    Under "Custom UI Modifications" choose the folder you want to use.
>> -    Place your CSS files inside this folder.
>> -    Restart Vivaldi to see them in effect.
>>
>> The problem is with the "choose the folder you want to use". On
>> clicking the "Select folder" button, a partial Nemo-type GUI appears
>> with a list of all the folders in my Home folder. Well, not all -
>> *none* of the hidden folders appear, and Vivaldi is in the hidden
>> .config folder! As noted above, it would be easy to see the hidden
>> files with Nemo, but the GUI which Vivaldi opens has no menu items. So
>> I took a chance and checked with Nemo's "View" menu, and after
>> ensuring the cursor was in the Vivaldi GUI folder list, keyed Ctrl-H.
>> I was relieved to see .config folder appear, and it was then a simple
>> matter to put the css file in it. On starting Vivaldi, the tabs were
>> below the address bar.
>>
>> I hope that this is useful for anyone coming across a similar problem.
>>
> 
> with firefox you can also have the tabs in a side panel, of course

As you can with Vivaldi, which allows tabs at the top, bottom, left, or 
right. But neither have a setting for tabs under the address bar, and it 
was trying to get this with Vivaldi which led to my OP.

-- 
Jeff

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Viewing hidden files Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-16 19:08 +0100
  Re: Viewing hidden files Felix <none@not.here> - 2025-08-17 12:29 +1000
    Re: Viewing hidden files Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-17 08:08 +0100
  Re: Viewing hidden files RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-08-17 09:42 +0000
    Re: Viewing hidden files Jeff Layman <Jeff@invalid.invalid> - 2025-08-17 12:35 +0100
      Re: Viewing hidden files RonB <ronb02NOSPAM@gmail.com> - 2025-08-18 11:19 +0000
  Re: Viewing hidden files yossarian <<nomail@gmail.com>> - 2025-08-17 14:25 +0200

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