Nautilus behavior

Jim Byrnes jf_byrnes at comcast.net
Fri Mar 25 20:07:12 UTC 2011


Colin Law wrote:
> 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
>

Thanks Colin, that helps.

Regards, Jim




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