1/5/2024 0 Comments Ubuntu 11.10 startup manager![]() Sudo sed -i ‘s / NoDisplay = true / NoDisplay = false / g’ /etc/xdg/autostart/*.desktop I hope you like this little bit of Linux knowledge. There are separate methods for locking a folder in Linux. hidden file in any directory to hide files and folders in it. ![]() Keep in mind that this trick works with only the current directory you are in. hidden file and add the name of the folders in this file, those folders will be hidden from normal view when you close your file manager and open it again. This is a neat little trick that will let you hide several files and folders from the normal view in your desktop Linux’s file manager. If you are using Linux desktop, just right click and choose the rename option and add the dot before the name.īonus Tip: Hiding multiple files and folders without renaming all of them (valid for GUI only) MyFolder and it will be taken as a hidden file or folder. ![]() Now if you want to hide a file or folder, lets say MyFolder, just rename it to. (dot), it is considered as a hidden file. So, how can you hide a folder in Ubuntu then? Very simple! Using the Linux property of hiding a file/folder. But this option is not available in Ubuntu. In Windows, you right click on a file and choose the option of making it hidden. Unfortunately/interestingly, there is no similar way as in Windows to hide a folder. Now that you have learned to see hidden files in Ubuntu, let’s now see how you can hide a folder or files. Now go to the top menu->Show hidden files: File Manager is Ubuntu’s counter part of Windows Explorer. To see a hidden file or hidden folder in Ubuntu, go to the file manager (default is Nautilus). If you are not a fan of keyboard shortcuts, you can use the file manager GUI to display the hidden folders and files. Pressing Ctrl+H again will hide the files. If you are in the file manager, you can use the Ctrl+H keyboard shortcut in Ubuntu and I presume other distributions to display all the files including the hidden ones. If you use desktop Linux, you can still see hidden files easily. You can recognize the hidden files and folders with the dot (.) before their names. If you are in a terminal, you can use the ls command to display the all the files, including the hidden ones: Show hidden files in Ubuntu & other Linux distributions So how do you see the hidden files in Linux then? Let me show you that. Hiding a folder or file just “removes” the folder from the normal view and then you can choose to display “hidden files” to see it.
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