Do the spins have the same new security changes as Gnome in F41? I see that the only access I have to the DOT (hidden) files is through the command line. That leads to lots of extra work (currently maintaining 6 workstations) as I clean things up so I can backup clean Home(s) to load in the new installs. It would be nice if I could just click the “show hidden files” in Nautilus. Then it would check to see I am an admin and ask for password verification then show the hidden files and I could do what I need to. But it doesn’t and I doubt very much that it ever will. so I am thinking about switching to one of the spins if there is one that will work for me.
That sounds like a nautilus specific change and not a system wide change. So other applications/file managers should continue to function as they did before (unless they too have implemented this).
I haven’t tried F41 yet and on F40 “ctrl H” still works. Are you not seeing the option to see hidden files at all, or is the option there but it doesn’t work?
I’m not seeing anything mentioned in the changelog here:
The Ctrl h still works, but it’s very selective it only allows the bash related files to show. .cash as an instance of many is not shown. Also the "show Hidden Files is not in the Nautilus preferences in Nautilus.
I have this showing when I use “ctrl+H” on my f41 test system
Although the preference option to show hidden files appears to have been removed at some point in the past. It is not present in my version of nautilus on f40 either.
In both F40 and F41, I can use ctrl+h and the Nautilus menu to find hidden files. I can see all the hidden files, including bash related and the custom ones.
