On Sat, Feb 25, 2006 at 02:59:19AM +0100, Holly Bostick wrote: > John J. Foster schreef: > > Good evening, > > > > I'm running a KDE desktop and in the File Open dialog boxes on both > > Firefox & OOo I can't seem to find where to tell them to display hidden > > folders and/or files. > > For firefox, if a Save dialog, select "Browse for other folders", then > right-click inside the file list on the right -- not the folder list on > the left-- and select "Show hidden files". For the Open dialog, you > don't have to browse, obviously. Setting will remain until you revoke > it, though possibly not across browser sessions (not sure).
Thanks, that works fine. Even for the "Open File", which I'm not sure why
you wouldn't think I'd have to browse.
>
> However, if you do this a lot, you might consider making a symlink from
> the hidden folder or file to a link of the same name, but without the
> preceding ".", that way the symlink won't be hidden.
>
Yeah, but that's really lame that I'd have to do that. OOo can be so
advanced on some things, and so incredibly stupid on others.
Thanks agin,
festus
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