The home folder starts with default folders (mostly XDG base directories) like ~/Documents and ~/Music. These are decorated as follows:   custom folder icon (not an emblem) custom icon matches the style of the regular folder icon Nautilus bookmark in a distinct section (separate from other bookmarks) custom bookmark icon   I have created a non-XDG folder called ~/Work. How can I decorate it with all four features listed above?
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How do I assign custom icons to folders, as well as the default folders Desktop, Downloads, Music, etc.? I know that one way is to assign the properties of folders, but I want to assign icons in the same way that are assigned the default folders, so the custom icons will also appear in the Nautilus bookmarks. I've also seen this question >>  &lt;&lt;, but that is not what I seek.  I want the markers to display custom icons like the dolphin. I know it's possible, because the folder "Desktop", "Documents", "Music" have their own custom icons in bookmarks. How?
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I use symbolic links to tidy my home folder. This works well in the terminal, since the links create the illusion of normal folders:    In Nautilus, however, the links behave more like , immediately teleporting me to their target:    This is particularly troubling when¹ I later want to navigate "up" to the parent folder, as it strands me somewhere outside of the tree I've carefully tidied.  How can I make Nautilus show symbolic links as normal folders, like the terminal does?  Details   Nautilus did not dereference symlinks in Ubuntu 12.10:   Maybe this new behavior is just a bug? I'm not sure how to tell. Here's what I know:   It's not on the . I've skimmed the  and didn't see anything related. The Nautilus mailing list archive . I received no response from about 120 idlers when posing the question on the GNOME IRC channel. A change was made in Nautilus 3.6 to .  ¹ This is an example. A workaround for this particular scenario does not constitute an answer to my question. Since people seem to be interested in discussing it, though:   Using the Back button is not a suitable workaround; it does not always take me to the parent folder. You can navigate up by pressing Alt+Up. The desired behavior in this example is for "up" to navigate to the parent folder of the symbolic link. The current behavior is to navigate to the parent folder of the target of the symbolic link.
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The folder name was listed in File Explorer with just plain four dots .....  When I tried opening it, I came into some kind of endless rabbit hole loop where I opened the exact same folder again and again - I could do this endlessly. Showing the path like C:\ExamplePath\....\....\....\....\...., etc.  It was hanging my TypeScript compilation in one specific project. It took me more than a year before I found this folder and its related problems, because it was rooted deeply in nested folders. I never expected an issue like this, so I never looked for it.  I couldn't delete the folder the normal way because of the special name. In the end, I could remove it by using the command line and deleting the parent folder with rd /s /q path.  Afterward, I tried to create the folder again but was unable to do so with both File Explorer and the command line.  In my 20-plus years of using Windows I have never seen this bug before, so I can imagine that it would really be an annoying and confusing problem for amateur users.  Does anyone know how this could have happened and how to reproduce this issue?  Update  For people who are interested: this path was located deep within a TFS folder. So probably TFS uses the bypass method @grawity explained ("Various file managers, archivers, etc")  Did I stumble on a rare TFS bug?
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How to draw the directory tree image shown below, indicating folders and files?     To draw the folder tree I used the code from , but there is no obvious option to include files, and I therefore edited the image in Inkscape, as indicated in red.  The replicated code from Gonzalo Medina post () is shown below      \documentclass[border=5pt]{standalone}     \usepackage{forest}      \definecolor{folderbg}{RGB}{124,166,198}     \definecolor{folderborder}{RGB}{110,144,169}      \def\Size{4pt}     \tikzset{       folder/.pic={         \filldraw[draw=folderborder,top color=folderbg!50,bottom color=folderbg]           (-1.05*\Size,0.2\Size+5pt) rectangle ++(.75*\Size,-0.2\Size-5pt);           \filldraw[draw=folderborder,top color=folderbg!50,bottom color=folderbg]           (-1.15*\Size,-\Size) rectangle (1.15*\Size,\Size);       }     }      \begin{document}      \begin{forest}       for tree={         font=\ttfamily,         grow'=0,         child anchor=west,         parent anchor=south,         anchor=west,         calign=first,         inner xsep=7pt,         edge path={           \noexpand\path [draw, \forestoption{edge}]           (!u.south west) +(7.5pt,0) |- (.child anchor) pic {folder} \forestoption{edge label};         },         before typesetting nodes={           if n=1             {insert before={[,phantom]}}             {}         },         fit=band,         before computing xy={l=15pt},       }       [system       [config       ]       [lib         [Access         ]         [Plugin         ]       ]       [templates       ]       [tests       ]     ]     \end{forest}      \end{document}
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As of now, my desktop has begun showing the contents of my home folder (~) instead of the contents of ~/desktop. I must have changed something, but I have no idea what, or what I was doing exactly when it happened.  How do I re-point gnome to the right folder?  I'm running Ubuntu 11.04.
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I have the following directory setup:  /var/www/html   and  /home/tim/Website/files_here   The folder html is actually a link to /home/tim/Website. This means all my Website files are in my home area (they get included in the backup etc).  Is there anything wrong with this method? Is there a better way to get the homepage to be in /home/tim/Website?  Are symbolic links on a web server ever incompatible with users not on linux?
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I must be missing something really obvious, but when in Nautilus, how do I create a new folder if the window is full of other folders/files?  Whenever I right click, only the context menu of a subfolder/file is given, as the window is full:
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I deleted the Downloads folder in my Windows 7 home directory (which I had moved and renamed to incoming)  I was able to restore the folder from a backup, this restores the contents as well as Desktop.ini (hidden) that gives it the right folder icon within the home directory.  However, right clicking does not show the "Location" tab, indicating that Windows doesn't recognize it as the special downloads folder. By Location tab I mean the tab that allows moving the location of the folder (try this on My Pictures, etc.). Until I see this restored I assumed Windows isn't aware that this is in fact my Downloads folder.  How to fix this?
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Is there a way to customize a Lucid Lynx Launcher icon for various programs? There does not seem to be a way to do this using Create Launcher or Launcher properties. The application is not actually "installed" on the PC, the executable has just been copied. All I've been able to do so far is to add the command /home/t32/bin/pc_linux/t32marm -c /home/t32/config_usb.t32 to a generic Launcher icon using Create Launcher.
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When I am in my home folder there is a padlock on my Desktop icon. In properties there is written that root is the owner of Desktop and consequently I can't put anything on my Desktop.  I have recently installed this Ubuntu 14.04 and I would like to know why does the desktop icon belong to root while it wasn't so in Ubuntu 12.04 that I used earlier.  I know how to change the owner of a file using the command "chown" (or maybe this won't work for Desktop?) but I am afraid that it could somehow impair my security so first I would like to know the reason of this default setting.
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I've downloaded some nice themes, icon packages, and pointers from sites like gnome-look.  Now, what do I do to use this theme? Do I have to save it in /usr/share/themes?
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I wanted to put my work files (code) in /usr/local/src, but I think it's already a folder that has some other semantic meaning.  What is that? Should I put source code there, or is there a better place?  Edit - I am the sole user and admin of the machine, and I don't want to use my home directory because it's on an NFS drive.
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On Linux, (which I am used to), /home is the place where home folders live.  On a Mac, home is some kind of crazy mutant:  $ mount /dev/disk1 on / (hfs, local, journaled) devfs on /dev (devfs, local, nobrowse) map -hosts on /net (autofs, nosuid, automounted, nobrowse) map auto_home on /home (autofs, automounted, nobrowse)   Other than to be non-conformist, is there some purpose to this auto_home mount point?  Considering how it mucks up things that come right out of the box, there must be some wonderful thing that it accomplishes, but I can't figure out what that would be.....
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How do you show a hidden folder (whose name starts with .) in File Manager a.k.a. Nautilus on Ubuntu?  I am somewhat new to Ubuntu and can't seem to find the "view" menu.
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Total Ubuntu/Linux in general noob here.   What is the difference between /home and /Home ? I've noticed I need to use sudo to do anything in /home. /Home (home folder?) has pictures, videos, etc. in it so thats where I want to really create new folders and stuff but I can't seem to get to it using cd.
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For as long as I can remember, every time I install Ubuntu there is a folder in the home directory called "Templates." I've always just deleted it, but I'm curious: what's it supposed to be used for, and why is it in the default install?
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When making a custom launcher, it is nice to have a matching icon for it from the default usr ubuntu directories. The problem that is: Ubuntu seems to store icons in about 50 or more folders. Browsing all of them in nautilus takes ages.  So my question is: Is there some kind of icon browser that shows an overview of all icons in /usr/share/icons/*?