My OperaChanging Gnome Bookmarks in Ubuntu
Monday, November 16, 2009 2:48:56 AM
OK, so you are a savvy user who knows their stuff and have become sick of Windows so have switched to Ubuntu. The problem is that you need to keep Windows because you like to play the odd game or two, and it is not convenient to have two separate computers. You decide to employ a dual boot setup so you can choose what to boot when you switch the computer on.
This is all quite easy to do even if you don't know about Linux, but once you've become accustomed to Ubuntu you might decide it would be better if you could share your Windows 'My Documents' folder with your Ubuntu 'Documents' folder, etc. Again, easy to do, but if you don't know your way around the Gnome environment you might not know what you're looking for. Even the easiest task can seem impossible if you don't know what you're doing!
To do this, you will need to make sure your Windows partition is mounted in your Linux environment. In later versions of Ubuntu, the default place where this is mounted is '/windows'.
To edit your system's bookmarks, you need to open a File Browser window (click Places > Home Folder) then click Bookmarks > Edit Bookmarks. You will be presented with this screen:
Customise your bookmarks until you are happy with them. Enter the filepath of your Windows directories into the Location field (if you are having trouble, find the folder you want in the File Browser then copy the filepath from the Location field shown at the top). You can delete all of the old ones if you like. Bear in mind that if you have files saved in your Documents/Pictures/Videos etc subdirectories of your home folder, they will not be deleted, but you will not be able to access them easily from the Places menu anymore.
Now you have customised your bookmarks in the File Browser, they will be integrated into your system in the same way that My Documents/My Pictures/My Videos etc are integrated into the Windows shell. This can come in very handy as you can save your documents in one operating system and be one click away from them in the other. Your old windows documents will also be much easier to access.
This is all quite easy to do even if you don't know about Linux, but once you've become accustomed to Ubuntu you might decide it would be better if you could share your Windows 'My Documents' folder with your Ubuntu 'Documents' folder, etc. Again, easy to do, but if you don't know your way around the Gnome environment you might not know what you're looking for. Even the easiest task can seem impossible if you don't know what you're doing!
To do this, you will need to make sure your Windows partition is mounted in your Linux environment. In later versions of Ubuntu, the default place where this is mounted is '/windows'.
To edit your system's bookmarks, you need to open a File Browser window (click Places > Home Folder) then click Bookmarks > Edit Bookmarks. You will be presented with this screen:
Customise your bookmarks until you are happy with them. Enter the filepath of your Windows directories into the Location field (if you are having trouble, find the folder you want in the File Browser then copy the filepath from the Location field shown at the top). You can delete all of the old ones if you like. Bear in mind that if you have files saved in your Documents/Pictures/Videos etc subdirectories of your home folder, they will not be deleted, but you will not be able to access them easily from the Places menu anymore.
Now you have customised your bookmarks in the File Browser, they will be integrated into your system in the same way that My Documents/My Pictures/My Videos etc are integrated into the Windows shell. This can come in very handy as you can save your documents in one operating system and be one click away from them in the other. Your old windows documents will also be much easier to access.
