Questions tagged [file-chooser]

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gtk3 file chooser and recent directory setup

after having changed my distro from an up-to-date Mint that contained gtk3 3.24.18 to Arch that contains gtk3 3.24.31 gtk4 4.4.1 I noticed a change in the file chooser dialogs, both in Firefox as well as in Chromium. The behaviour before was Go to…
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Consistent Windows 7 File Chooser

When you go to choose a file in Windows 7 from an application there are a variety of different file chooser windows that can come up. I have included examples below. A large file chooser brought up by Paint.net A small file chooser brought up by…
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GTK File Chooser: How to disable automatic search after folder selection?

When I open the GTK File Chooser Dialog to save a file and I start typing, the text goes into the filename text field (as expected). Now when I first choose a directory and then start typing, the text goes into a search box field, although the…
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Opening a file picker in any browser crashes the browser

In Windows 7 32-bit, in any browser (chrome, IE, firefox, opera) if I open a file picker either by using the main menu option e.g. 'open page' or 'save page as', or if a file picker appears from interacting with a website e.g. 'download pdf', then…
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How to disable filtering in Windows file chooser dialogs?

Using Windows (10), it really bugs me that open/save dialogs don't display files that aren't of the selected extension to be opened/saved. I want to see all the files in the folders that I'm looking through; even if I'm not going to select them,…
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View only files without extension in File choose Windows 7

In Windows 7, When i open a file choose dialog from notepad++ or notepad or wordpad or from some other editor software, how can i filter files to view only files without any extension? I know that we can search for files without extension by…
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File picker dialogs do not remember settings when Firefox is running in firejail

When Firefox is running in Firejail with the provided default config, the Gtk file picker dialogs do not remember sort order even when Firefox was not restarted between opening two dialogs. I tried copying the firejail profile and allowing access to…
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