Open your file manager (such as GNOME Files, Dolphin, or Thunar). Once opened, navigate to the folder housing the hidden files and hit the Ctrl-H keyboard combination, which will show hidden files.

The one caveat to this is that if you’re opening text files, it will open in the default Gedit — or GNOME Text, depending on which version of GNOME you’re using — GUI application.

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