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In Linux Mint 18.2, the default path selector looks like this:

path bar

I want it to look like this:

filename-entry

So I went opened up dconf-editor and changed org.gtk.settings.filechooser location-mode from path-bar to filename-entry. Unfortunately, this didn't have any effect, and when I opened up dconf-editor later, it had reverted back to path bar. So then I used gsettings to do it myself:

gsettings set org.gtk.Settings.FileChooser location-mode filename-entry

I tried this both with and without sudo. After running the command, gsettings get said that it did indeed take effect and was now set to filename-entry. Excited, I opened up gedit to test this, but was dismayed to find it was still the path bar and not filename-entry. Perplexingly, after closing the file-chooser in gedit, gsettings get now showed that location-mode had reverted to path-bar.

After trying this a few times, I determined that closing the file-chooser causes the setting to revert.

How can I get the file-chooser to use the path bar?

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    Have you found out anything? I am having the exact same problem and it's bugging me :|
    – Matthias Kauer
    Commented Oct 2, 2017 at 8:30
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    Bug report: gitlab.gnome.org/GNOME/gtk/issues/938
    – Martin Tournoij
    Commented Feb 12, 2019 at 1:09
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    The bug was dismissed by GNOME developers in typical "users shouldn't be able to configure their desktop" fashion.
    – Conrad Meyer
    Commented Jan 27, 2020 at 0:45
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    This issue is also discussed at bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/meta-gnome3/+bug/1830979 and github.com/sublimehq/sublime_text/issues/2723
    – imz -- Ivan Zakharyaschev
    Commented Jul 21, 2021 at 22:57
  • wish there was some way to influence the project so that self-righteous devs wouldn't be steering things that affect so many users negatively (the gitlab bug report @martin-tournoij links to features a commenter saying “The attitude of the GTK developers is irresponsible” and a maintainer replying “Please refrain from commenting on gtk bugs in the future. We can do without that sort of commentary. Thank you". that sort of thing really doesn't help people want to engage w/ open source)
    – Honore Doktorr
    Commented Sep 1 at 16:36

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Reset to default
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Having the same issue. also Linux Mint 18.2.

A workaround is to press Ctrl-L to switch to Location-entry mode.

I would also like a method to make this permanent.

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    unfortunately this bug is more than 2 years old now (gtkfilechooser won't read value) but there is no interest in fixing it
    – supersan
    Commented Apr 26, 2020 at 10:50

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