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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?)

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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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  • Pretty same as OSX, I didn't know that. Nice to know! – Denys Vitali Aug 29 '13 at 23:42
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    Not anymore: http://askubuntu.com/questions/256986/how-to-achieve-list-tree-view-in-nautilus -- because convergence. By far the dumbest decision anyone has ever made... actually merging a commit that removes functioning code for a useful feature, because it's not as useful on some device that doesn't exist yet. – o_o_o-- Aug 29 '13 at 23:57
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    Bummer! Didn't know that. Sorry. One more reason not to update to 13.04... – Germar Aug 30 '13 at 00:04
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    Nah, it's still there. Preferences > Display > Navigate folders in a tree. Might have been missing for one release, though. – Dylan McCall Aug 30 '13 at 00:28
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    still there in 15.10 – Mateo Oct 26 '15 at 00:54
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    it's there : files -> preferences -> allow folders to be expanded – maxbellec Jun 22 '17 at 11:42
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Dolphin appears to have this capability.

dophin

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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
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