Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Felix Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.mint Subject: Re: Viewing hidden files Date: Sun, 17 Aug 2025 12:29:49 +1000 Lines: 47 Message-ID: References: <107qhee$1isi7$2@dont-email.me> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: individual.net ZgYpL8+0Va+ekirnqjAEPQhimw3KhiQ2EZ6HMITvjUVyP+RIQa Cancel-Lock: sha1:HB3DV5cpgrc76H/YXey6zW0TYzc= sha256:9fT/8WruxyoKNOzgpOA3qCWOso3g1LB/B9ewj07/iXY= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:128.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/128.0 SeaMonkey/2.53.21 In-Reply-To: <107qhee$1isi7$2@dont-email.me> Xref: csiph.com alt.os.linux.mint:45126 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 > > shows the script, and refers back to > 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 -- Linux Mint 22.1