I've spent hours searching for how to hide the sidebar by default, but apparently one can't.
-- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Desktop Packages, which is subscribed to nautilus in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1260971 Title: Nautilus does not save all user settings "show/hide sidebar" Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Confirmed Bug description: Nautilus saves some user settings and not others. For instance, it saves my preference for list view. But it does not save my preference for hiding the sidebar. It should save all user preferences. :( ProblemType: Bug DistroRelease: Ubuntu 14.04 Package: nautilus 1:3.8.2-0ubuntu4 ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 3.12.0-7.15-generic 3.12.4 Uname: Linux 3.12.0-7-generic x86_64 ApportVersion: 2.12.7-0ubuntu2 Architecture: amd64 CurrentDesktop: Unity Date: Sat Dec 14 07:53:01 2013 GsettingsChanges: b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-visible-columns' b"['name']" b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'use-tree-view' b'true' b'org.gnome.nautilus.list-view' b'default-column-order' b"['name', 'size', 'type', 'date_modified', 'owner', 'group', 'permissions', 'mime_type', 'where']" InstallationDate: Installed on 2013-10-25 (50 days ago) InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 14.04 LTS "Trusty Tahr" - Release amd64 (20131021.1) SourcePackage: nautilus UpgradeStatus: No upgrade log present (probably fresh install) To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+bug/1260971/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp

