konqueror not displaying all folders (edgy)

Derek Broughton news at pointerstop.ca
Fri Oct 27 12:37:57 UTC 2006


Daniel Pittman wrote:

> Ian Rose <ian at themagictree.co.uk> writes:
> 
>> For some reason when using konqueror as a normal user in edgy,
>> browsing to / only displays TWO folders: "/home" and "/media". The
>> other folders ("/usr /bin /etc ...") are all there, but this bug
>> prevents me from seeing them. Has anybody else encountered this, or
>> know of a fix?
> 
> It is, as noted, a feature.  The '.hidden' files in the root and /media
> are responsible for the list of hidden areas.
> 
> You can find the actual files, as the .hidden ones are symlinks, in
> /etc/kubuntu-default-settings/hidden-*
> 
> Season to taste; they are standard configuration files, so should do the
> right thing no matter what you do to them.

That is so ... "edgy", I guess.  I never even noticed it before, which shows
how much I need to be in /
-- 
derek





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