John Doe, if you have not done so already, uncheck Show hidden and
backup files in nautilus' Edit Preferences Views. At least that
will change your default so you won't be reverting to showing hidden
every time you open a nautilus window. It won't remember your use of
View Show Hidden Files
@Sebastien: I tried a guest session just now.
1. This was my first time using a guest session since installing 14.04.
2. On this first opening of the guest session, the nautilus preference
was found to be unchecked, so it did not show hidden files.
3. Leaving the preference unchanged, I used
My similar bug report on 14.04 got linked to this one. But mine is not
identical.
The difference: on this report the original poster writes, When changed
via gui the setting is remembered correctly. In my case that is not
true. No matter whether I use Ctrl+H or View Show Hidden Files, the
*** This bug is a duplicate of bug 1247221 ***
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1247221
Thank you for the workaround. I've added some comments to the other bug
report because it did not sufficiently describe the bug I was seeing (in
fact it conflicted in one way). But it's close enough to
Technically, the title of this bug report is a little misleading.
It says Nautilus doesn't remember setting for showing hidden files
correctly when org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser show-hidden is true.
But nautilus also doesn't remember the setting when the preference is
false. So the title of this
Public bug reported:
Summary:
Since 14.04, the nautilus file manager is always showing hidden items when I
open it. The setting can be changed, but reverts when I close the app so the
next time I use it it again defaults to showing hidden items.
Expected behavior: nautilus defaults to not
