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Behaviour of vi: ${PWD} when open from Caja vs open from terminal
VIM - Vi IMproved 8.1 (2018 May 18, compiled Feb 01 2022 09:16:32)
Included patches: 1-2269, 3612, 3625, 3669, 3741
Ubuntu MATE 20.04.5 LTS
Caja 1.24.0
Not sure why there is a discrepancy in ...
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What is the ID/password when a folder is shared using "Sharing Options" of Caja?
Ubuntu Mate 20.04 LTS. I installed the caja-share extension and installed samba (but not manually configured anything). In Caja, I right-clicked a directory, chose "Sharing Options", and ...
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show Computer, or My Computer on Ubuntu MATE 20
How can Computer view be displayed in the Caja file manager in Ubuntu MATE 20.04.3?
the location is computer:///
Nautilus has it under Other Locations, but caja has no clear way to reach that location ...
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Is there a way to increase the size of the Caja file selector thumbnails?
Hopefully the title makes sense.
All I need to know is if there is a way to make the thumbnails/image previews bigger as on a laptop screen they are pretty hard to see.
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Caja-dropbox with "bind --mount" doesn't automatically sync
I want to use mount --bind to link to different locations on my filesystem for syncing with Dropbox as symlinks are no longer supported:
mount --bind ~/Documents ~/Dropbox/Documents
I expected that ...
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Where desktop icon positions are saved in MATE?
I'm using Ubuntu MATE 20.04 LTS. There are a lot carefully aligned icons on my desktop. Something like shown below:
I can't find icon positions attributes in dconf / gsettings.
How can I backup their ...
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Temporary files from Caja/Engrampa taking up space
I was trying to add a major amount of data from an MTP volume to an archive using the Caja context menu. I first got a notification that files for the archive were being “copied” (no idea what that ...
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How to configure access to Yandex Disk with GUI?
I'm using Ubuntu MATE 18.04 LTS and want to set Yandex.Disk (cloud storage web-service like Google Drive) here to be accessed from GUI.
How should I do this?
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"Starting Home Folder" in panel for about 10 seconds in Ubuntu Mate 18.04 LTS
If I start my Home folder it will open as expected but there is this "Starting Home Folder" message in the panel for about 10 seconds until it disappears. I did not find any way how to fix ...
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How to install TortoiseHG with integration to Caja on Ubuntu MATE 20.04 LTS?
On previous systems like Ubuntu 16.04 LTS and 18.04 LTS it was possible.
But 20.04 LTS do not have tortoisehg and tortoisehg-caja in the repositories.
What to do?
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How to hide model Hard Disk in volume name ubuntu mate
How to hide model Hard Disk in volume name ubuntu mate
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How to force CAJA browser to respect umask setting when creating a new folder/file with right click?
In the latest Ubuntu LTS with MATE Desktop, newly created folders and files from the CAJA browser appear always with read permission for all users, no matter what value I assign with umask in /etc/...
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Ubuntu MATE: show text file contents on its icon in caja
After upgrading from Mate 16.04 to Mate 18.04, there is no longer a few lines of preview printed on file icon. I liked that feature.
It it possible to achieve this in 18.04?
related: How do I make ...
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Use thunar and not Caja to open CDs and DVDs
Using Ubuntu Mate 18.04
When I insert a CD or DVD, I want thunar to open it and not caja.
When I go to media handling under Caja preferences and pick use Thunar for CD and DVD, it stays at Do ...
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What do I do about a file that was literally split into two while moving it?
While I was moving a large file (~95GB) via the Caja file manager, and it crashed in the middle of the copy, stopping the operation entirely. Now I'm stuck with two separate files, the first is ~25GB, ...
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