@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 Ctrl+H to show hidden files, and observed that some files were displayed. 4. I closed nautilus and then opened it again. Hidden files were not shown. I repeated this sequence again to be certain. 5. I changed the preference to Show Hidden Files (checked), and observed that hidden files were displayed. 6. I closed nautilus and opened it again. Hidden files were shown; the preference was respected as before. 7. Leaving the preference unchanged, I used Ctrl+H to hide hidden files, and observed that hidden files were no longer shown. 8. I closed nautilus then opened it again. The setting was not remembered, and only the preference was respected. Conclusion: in a guest session, it appears that only the preference determines the behavior when nautilus is opened. Once it is already open, the temporary setting can be changed via Ctrl+H (or View > Show Hidden Files), but it will be forgotten when nautilus is closed. This is the same behavior as in my regular user session. The only difference is that for my regular user, the preference defaulted to Show Hidden the first time I used nautilus after installing 14.04, while in a guest session the default was NOT to Show Hidden. Sorry for the length of my post : it is difficult to be exact about these things in a short post. -- 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/1247221 Title: Nautilus doesn't remember setting for showing hidden files correctly when org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser show-hidden is true Status in Nautilus: New Status in “nautilus” package in Ubuntu: Triaged Bug description: Description: Ubuntu 13.10 Release: 13.10 nautilus: 1:3.8.2-0ubuntu2 The default setting of not showing hidden files can be changed with strg+h. After all windows are closed nautilus remembers to show hidden files again when opening a new window. If strg+h is pressed again to hide hidden files nautilus does so but still keeps showing hidden files in new windows. When changed via gui the setting is remembered correctly. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/nautilus/+bug/1247221/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages Post to : desktop-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~desktop-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
