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GtkFileChooser

The GTK-Toolkit changed it’s default file chooser dialog to a new interface which seen rather controversial. It is not a rudimentary as it looks, though.

Important Bindings

C-l
Open a location bar which uses completion and is generally helpful.
/
Open the location bar at the root directory (just as in Emacs :-)
~
Open the location bar at your home directory (again, just as in Emacs :-)
M-up/down
Up or down one directory (down to a previously visited directory, not the selected item in the list).
M-home
Jump to your home directory
M-d
Jump to your desktop directory (e.g. ~/Desktop)
M-1..0
Jump to one of the bookmarks

And there is a right mouse context menu which let’s you toggle the visibility of hidden files.

Customizing

If you want to use the old file dialog set

 (setq x-gtk-use-old-file-dialog t)

See also the variable ‘x-gtk-show-hidden-files’

Documentation