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How can Computer view be displayed in the Caja file manager in Ubuntu MATE 20.04.3?

the location is computer:///

Nautilus has it under Other Locations, but caja has no clear way to reach that location through the menus or buttons.

After unmounting a usb drive it accidentally came up: enter image description here

And BTW, why aren't total, available, and used amounts shown in this view like in System Monitor? It seems a simple and useful feature.

These other posts are too old to be relevant.

Marc Compere
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First of all you already have a way to access Computer directly from Main Toolbar. There is special icon here:

Computer icon on toolbar

Also you can access Computer from Caja using Go → Computer.
For quicker future access you can add the opened computer:/// location to Bookmarks by Ctrl+D. And as the result it will be available in the Bookmarks section of Side Pane.

Also you can make this Computer icon visible on Desktop by gsettings set org.mate.caja.desktop computer-icon-visible true (or check Computer icon on the first tab of MATE Tweak).

If you select Traditional MATE Panel layout in MATE Tweak you will get Computer shortcut in the Places menu.

So I do not see any difficulties accessing computer:/// location.

May be you are interested to precisely read Ubuntu MATE guide at https://guide.ubuntu-mate.org/ or some books from https://ubuntu-mate.org/shop/books/ to understand the system.

Then about disk sizes and spaces. This sounds like feature request. Please file it to Launchpad by apport-bug caja and then to Github at https://github.com/mate-desktop/caja/issues .

N0rbert
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  • perfect. didn't even see the icon. great answer. I looked at the guide. Something might be in there but I searched for computer:/// and nothing showed up. – Marc Compere Feb 13 '22 at 18:45