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Word Wrap Long File Names

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How do you word wrap long file names in nautilus when browsing???

Thanks,

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chris (kentsusai) said : 		#1

???

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Léa GRIS (lea-gris) said : 		#2

It wrap file names in incon viiew but not in list view.
Unless I misunderstood what you'd like, I guess it has not that feature.

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chris (kentsusai) said : 		#3

nautilus needs to be able to word wrap in list mode

can this be done?

Thanks,

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marcobra (Marco Braida) (marcobra) said : 		#4

I think you can't but as a workaround you can create a symbolic link to the long path... open a terminal and type:

ln -s /home/youruser/long/path_namedirectory/that_you/dont_want_tosee_more youshortnamelink

Hope this helps

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chris (kentsusai) said : 		#5

Sorry

I need the long file name and I need the user to read and I need the user to be able to view it in list/tree format

Thanks

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Hans Spaans (hspaans) said : 		#6

The feature you request isn't in the current list view. There are some modification ahead in the new version of GNOME 2.24 (2.20 is in Gutsy and 2.22 is in Hardy) you may want to address your request to the Nautilus developers.

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