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As a happy Linux user for almost a year now, this is the bane of my existence. Does the Linux community hate tree views for some obscure reason?

I don't mean a tree view in the side panel. That's useless. I mean a proper tree view, such that, when I click the triangle, all files and subdirectories contained within the directory show beneath, and I can drag and drop files, open and close trees.

It is extremely frustrating to navigate and move files around deeply nested directories without this feature.

I've tried: Nautilus, PCManFM, emelFM2, Krusader. I find it hard to believe that even crazilly-full-featured file managers like Krusader would be missing this most obvious of features... and yet, here I am. For all the effort put into those file managers, is this so far-fetched to ask for?

I just need a simple, single-pane file manager with a tree view option. Help!

And -- please -- HOW IS THIS FUNCTION INVOKED ?? (Do I left/right click while pressing control/alt/shift? Is some setting required?)

Eric Schayer
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Nautilus does this.

Ubuntu up to version 12.10

  • Just switch to View > List.

nautilus

Ubuntu 13.04

Feature is missing in this release

Ubuntu 13.10 and newer

  • activate Preferences > Display > Navigate folders in a tree
  • switch to List View

nautilus

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Germar
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Dolphin appears to have this capability.

dophin

evilsoup
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You could use Marlin as well https://launchpad.net/marlin

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Install with

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:marlin-devs/marlin-daily
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install marlin marlin-plugin-*

UPDATE : haven't tested this, but it should work to set Marlin as the default file manager.

xdg-mime default Marlin.desktop inode/directory
Goddard
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