howto hide a folder (another way than just adding ".")

iggy · 2008-01-26 14:26:16

hello guys!

i often play poker at europoker.net. while playing it creates a folder in my home directory called "OngameNetwork".
When i delete it or hide it, next time i login it will create a new one. so my question is, how can i hide a folder without adding a dot at the beginning/renaming it? i want a system-wide solution, that means ls on console and file-dialogs should not see the folder.

is that possible?

thanks, mfg iggy

Last edited by iggy (2008-01-26 14:26:37)

bender02 · 2008-01-26 16:10:28

I don't know of any way of doing this. But if it's just that one that bugs you, create another user (say "pokeruser") just for playing that poker, and run the poker application with "su pokeruser -c <appname>". That should run it as pokeruser, and so creating that dir inside pokeruser's home dir.

iggy · 2008-01-27 18:39:24

it's a browser game! don't want to launch a extra browser.

that's a pitty. there is so much possible with linux, why not hiding a folder the other way...?

PJ · 2008-01-27 19:32:04

You could try to create a file named .hidden and put the name of the folder inside the file. There is a big chance that this doesn't work since it isn't supported by every file browser. It works in some of the gtk based but it doesn't seem to work with kde.

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howto hide a folder (another way than just adding ".")

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