Switch from path bar to location bar permanently in Nautilus
If you want to toggle between location bar or path bar without installing anything on your system open a terminal and type to enable the location bar
gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences always-use-location-entry true
and to disable it
gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences always-use-location-entry false
This setting is user based. You may need to restart Nautilus with nautilus -q
.
The method is applicable for all current releases:
- Ubuntu 14.04 LTS (trusty),
- Ubuntu 16.04 LTS (xenial),
- Ubuntu 18.04 LTS (bionic),
- Ubuntu 18.10 (cosmic).
Answer edited out of the question
To permanently switch from path bar to location bar, you can use dconf-tools .
To install dconf-tools, run the following command in a terminal:
sudo apt-get install dconf-tools
After installing it, search for dconf-tools in the dash and open it.
From there, the setting is located at org -> gnome -> nautilus -> preferences.
You need to enable always-use-location-entry
to always use the location toolbar instead of the path bar.