Show address bar w. full path in Nautilus instead of breadcrumbs bar

Question

Unfortunately, Gnome's nautilus address bar is not showing the full path in its top bar. How can I change this behavior?

I'm looking for a solution to display a editable text field instead, like in the good old days.

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score 88 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 13 '15 at 00:22

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Press Ctl and while holding it down, press L.

To return to the original breadcrumb view, make sure that the editable text area has the focus then press the Esc key.

To make it permanent (i.e. to always use location entry) run:

gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.preferences always-use-location-entry true

or

dconf write /org/gnome/nautilus/preferences/always-use-location-entry true

Same commands to revert to breadcrumbs (just replace true with false).

edited Nov 13 '15 at 00:22

don_crissti

answered Sep 06 '14 at 18:41

garethTheRed

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Awesome, the `dconf` command worked for me, I'm using Unity on Ubuntu 16.04 – Hamman Samuel Nov 21 '17 at 19:16
The dconf command worked for me as well, on Redhat. – AllisonC May 09 '19 at 12:33
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this is a great answer. But come on Nautilus, this is esoteric just for the sake of it. ...add a toggle button! – Pancho May 27 '19 at 16:37
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(and i know a little off topic but Nautilus adding "right click over menu breadcrumbs=> copy path to "selected breadcrumb depth" menu option I think would a sensible feature also) :) – Pancho May 27 '19 at 16:47
How to do it for Open/Save dialogs? – obe Oct 09 '20 at 19:32
This solution works, but it SELECTS the path text when nautilus opens. This is awkward. Anyone know if this is fixable? – Jay Sullivan Jul 26 '21 at 17:26
Press the cursor left/right key? (I can't test because I don't have access at the moment) – garethTheRed Jul 26 '21 at 19:50
Wow, it's silly this isn't in the Nautilus preferences. – Robert Hurst May 14 '23 at 06:34

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