Sort folders before files in Nautilus (Rocky Linux 8.6)

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Hi,

I’m currently discovering the default GNOME desktop in Rocky Linux 8.6. So far I’ve tweaked it to fit my needs using various extensions.

There’s one detail I can’t seem to get right. In the default configuration Nautilus lists everything hodge-podge, a mix of folders and files. I’d like it to list folders first, but there seems to be no way to configure this. I installed dconf-editor and took a peek in org.gnome.nautilus.preferences. Some online documentation lists a corresponding sort-folders-before-files boolean, but this seems to be missing here in Rocky Linux 8.

Any suggestions ?

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I’ll answer that myself, since I just found a very well hidden Preferences dialogue in Nautilus, with a nice “Sort Folders before Files” option. :slightly_smiling_face:

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There’s another option, As I am using Rocky linux with i3wm, There isn’t such a setting gui to tweek around.

gsettings set org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser sort-directories-first true

That also works.

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