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My nautilus HAS a preference button but it does not show all the possible options. For example, I was trying to set executable-text-activation to launch but I can NOT find the option in my preference as is shown here... attached figure Do you know what is a possible reason behind this?

Remark: I have tried the command line dconf write /org/gnome/nautilus/preferences/executable-text-activation "'launch'" to solve the example problem but it was not working.

(Solved) This is probably a duplicate of Can't run shell script by double click in Files (Ubuntu 21.10).

(Update) Nemo keeps more preferences compared to Nautilus.

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Any option comes at a cost. It was the decision not to expose this option anymore. A main reason is that launching a random file by double clicking is not anymore considered good practice, in the context of security. Something that is executable should be properly installed on a system and opened from the dedicated menu system. Developers are the only people that need to test-run scripts and executables that are not installed. However, they will not use a file manager for that.

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