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Re:Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu ha... by dm319 on Thursday May 10, 2018 @11:22AM (#17039661)
> missing type-ahead search in Nautilus file browser

I'd forgotten this! Very frustrating when you're used to using this to switch to a file in that directory. I also missed split-screen functionality, and the inability to right click and fire up a terminal from that location. Oh, and also looks like they've dropped being able to double-click on an executable .sh file to run it.

Luckily none of this bothers me as there is Caja.

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Re:Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu ha... by rav on Thursday May 10, 2018 @02:38PM (#17041749)
>> missing type-ahead search in Nautilus file browser

> I'd forgotten this! Very frustrating when you're used to using this to switch to a file in that directory.

I agree, but FWIW you can press Ctrl-L to focus the address bar, which allows you to enter a relative path, e.g. name of a file/directory in the current directory.

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Re:Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu ha... by q3k on Thursday May 10, 2018 @02:41PM (#17041792)
Restore sanity by applying the following patch: https://code.hackerspace.pl/q3k/q3kverlay/tree/x11-libs/gtk+...

(or just use this overlay if you run Gentoo)

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Re:Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu ha... by sametmax on Friday May 11, 2018 @03:21AM (#17045526)
Any tutorial on this ? And above all, how to automate it so that it's applied after updates ?
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Re:Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu ha... by halkotron on Wednesday May 16, 2018 @01:30PM (#17084411)
You can try https://launchpad.net/~lubomir-brindza/+archive/ubuntu/nauti...

I'll try to keep it up to date.

(or the Nemo file browser, which also retained split-window functionality)

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Re:Ubuntu 18.04: Unity is gone, Gnome is back, and Ubuntu ha... by q3k on Friday May 11, 2018 @06:00AM (#17046052)
Depends on the distribution you use. Some (Debian, Ubuntu) make it extremely annoying to apply your own patches to packages, while others (Arch, Gentoo) make it very easy.
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