Nautilus behavior

[Colin Law]

On 25 March 2011 16:05, Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net> wrote:
> I use Nautilus in the List View.  If I grab the side and widen the window
> the Name column takes up a greater percentage of the window width.  It ends
> up way wider than it needs to be to show the file names. If I try to shrink
> it, I see the double arrows like expected but the size of the column will
> not change. I see this in both Lucid on the desktop and Maverick on my
> laptop.

Instead of trying to resize the name column, resize one of the others.
 Then if you grab the side of the window the name column will adjust
to fill up the remaining space.  In practice this is ok as the other
columns are (mostly?) fixed width text.

Colin