Nautilus is the default file manager for Ubuntu.
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Sort order in Nautilus: Phonebook-style
I want Nautilus to sort in a phonebookstyle, e.g. underscores should be first:
_Anton
_Bert
_Caesar
Anton
Bert
Caesar
How can I achieve this?
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Archive manager started instead of executing a shell-script
When I double click on a .sh (the file is executable) file in Nautilus the archive manager is started instead of executing the script. How can I make Nautilus show the dialog (execute/edit/...) again?
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Nautilus-Wallpaper save path
When using the nautilus-wallpaper extension the image saves to my home folder. I know it's a bit OCD but I'd prefer a new selection to instead save directly to a folder of my choice. How could I go ...
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Display folder sizes in file manager
In nautilus (or nemo) file manager, the "Size" column shows the filesize for files and the number of items contained in a folder for subdirectories:
Number of items is not that important for me, it ...
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Is possible to split an nautilus window in horizontal?
The window splits vertically when we press the F3 key, it's possible to split the window horizontally?
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“nautilus-emblems” in 13.04
It appears that 13.04 restored the emblem capability in "nautilus-emblems". Unfortunately the installation instructions in /usr/share/doc/nautilus-emblems/README.md aren't very clear:
As root user ...
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How to use 'dired' as default file manager (instead of Nautilus)?
I use Emacs dired-mode as file manager and like it a lot. I am wondering if the following is possible: Say you write an Email from Gmail in Chrome (I know that there are many email clients in Emacs, ...
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Open file or folder location directly when searching for it - Nautilus
I currently use nautilus as my default file manager. When I search for some file or folder, I also need to switch to the directory that contains the particular file or folder. It feels tedious to go ...
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How to set Desktop to show files and folders from different directory?
Currently, when all windows are minimized and closed, the desktop will show files and folders located in /home/user/Desktop. I want to change this behavior and have my home folder be displayed for ...
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Tagging files in Nautilus [duplicate]
I would like to be able to add tags to images files by right clicking in the image file and be able to search by tags directly in nautilus without using an app like shotwell.
Is there anyway to do ...
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Is Privacy's Delete History button supposed to delete Nautilu's Recent Items?
I've opened two files and deleted the last hour history, in Recent Items' tab, in Privacy options (Ubuntu 13.04).
However, Nautilus keeps showing the two files in Recent files.
I've found the ...
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Nautilus doesn't work; update doesn't work
I'm running 12.04. This morning nautilus stopped working. Double clicking on the Home folder gets the flashing going, but nothing else. I did some searching around and it was suggested to reinstall ...
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How to copy folders thru terminal [duplicate]
I want to copy all my hard disk on /dev/sda1 to my external hard disk on /dev/sdb1
but thru terminal because when i'm using Nautilus the computer freezes donno why
i read this article but it explains ...
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Very poor file transfer performance
Just recently, my system is really struggling to move large amounts of data (sometimes few big files, sometimes many small ones). The trouble occurs when the files are being moved off of my hardrive ...
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How do I get the unity “file” shortcut to go to existing windows instead of opening new ones
The unity "files" icon when initially clicked will open to the home folder, if you navigate to another mounted device and click the files icon it will open another window to the home folder instead of ...
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How to rename multiple files? [duplicate]
I'm trying to move some files to another folder that already contains older files with the same name. Nautilus asks me every time to rename the duplicate files and they're too much to rename them ...
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Scrollbars arrows disappeared
I'm using 12.10 Unity with old fashioned scrollbars which now have no more arrows up/down or left/right on Nautilus, Terminal, Gedit (it's not the case on Firefox, Thunderbird, Libreoffice, Opera...).
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How to disable “recent files” folder in Nautilus?
When I turn off " record activity" in the privacy settings, my activities are still recorded in the "recent files" folder (even when I am using a truecrypt volume).
I haven't figured out a PERMANENT ...
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Program works on gnome 3, does not work on xfce
I wrote some C++ program, using qt and gstreamer, where I take photo from the webcam, then I open the folder with the saved image with image icon selected.
To open folder I have tried :
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Nautilus in Ubuntu 13.04 lost the shortcut key for jumping to list view [duplicate]
In the version of Nautilus included with Ubuntu 12.10, you could press Ctrl+2 to switch to file list view, instead of the default grid view.
After upgrading to Ubuntu 13.04 this feature doesn't seem ...
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problem with nautilus using sftp in ubuntu 13.04
I'm accesing a ssh server with Nautilus and if I leave it without activity for a while and I try ti acces again to any folder, It doesnt respond at all until I unmount it... I think nautilus doesn't ...
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odd nautilus behavior in raring on NFS shares
My wife upgraded to Raring and is having strange behavior: When she browses her pictures and media (nfs mounted through autofs) with nautilus and she tries to scroll through the folder or just moving ...
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What are the new Nautilus (3.6) shortcuts in Ubuntu 13.04?
I post this question since new nautilus is very 'keyboard unfriendly', specially for one-key shortcuts. From 3.4 to 3.6 the very useful 'backspace' shortcut to go to parent directory has gone (along ...
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Nautilus bookmarks are missing since upgrade to 13.04
My bookmarks are not shown anymore after upgrading to 13.04 Raring ringtails and I can't add any new bookmarks. The function is not shown and the shortcut Ctrl+D isn't working either. Is this ...
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How to drag and drop upload files into Filezilla in Unity?
I am web developer, using Ubuntu 13.04. I frequently need to upload files from different directories to FTP.
How can I drag and drop upload files to the Filezilla icon in the Unity launcher?
I know ...
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How can I prevent Nautilus from showing search results?
How can I prevent Nautilus from showing search results?
First this is not for hiding .. you know.
I want to hide my MMORPG so I am the only that can play it. Is there a script, command, anything ...
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How do I reenable “open in new window” option in Ubuntu 13.04?
In Ubuntu 13.04, Nautilus no longer has an Open in new window option for folders, but only Open in new tab. How can I reenable that option?
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getting error when trying to use dolphin instead of Nautilus
I am getting the following error while trying to use dolphin instead of Nautilus.
"Failed to execute child process "/usr/share/applications/kde4/dolphin.desktop" (Permission denied)"
I used the ...
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Ubuntu 13.04 Nautilus Tree View [duplicate]
Please let me know is there a way to have a tree view in the Nautilus in Ubuntu 13.04? I remember that I had this feature in 12.10 version?
Regards
PK
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Open terminal from nautilus by right click
I use nautilus as my default file manager. Is there any way that I can customize it so that right click anywhere in the window gives an option to open the current directory in terminal. I have seen ...
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How to sort by type and then by modified in Nautilus?
How to automatically sort by type and then by modified in file manager?
Using 13.04 and Gnome 3.8
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gtk_file_chooser - missing thumbnails
I have an C++ application using gtk_file_chooser_dialog_new() to open files. The generated dialog shows the folder and contained files without the thumbnails in the leftmost column (dummy black ...
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gedit opens different window though it should not
It's a follow-up of Why does gedit keep randomly opening new instances when opening files from nautilus? On Ubuntu 12.04 with Unity:
I double click on a text file on the desktop or through Nautilus. ...
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Keyboard shortcut for “open a terminal here” in Nemo
How can I make a keyboard shortcut for "Open a terminal here" in Nemo?
I am finding the "Files" manager formerly known as nautilus that comes with Ubuntu 13.04 to be too crippled to bother using ...
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In Ubuntu 13.04 backspace button in nautilus not working?
PC: Acer Aspire E1-571
OS: Ubuntu 13.04 amd64
I want to downgrade my nautilus file browser in ubuntu 13.04 and i have tried the SoluOS patch but not satisfied. I just want to install nautilus 3.4 . ...
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Icons for custom mime-type does not show up with Ubuntu-mono-dark theme
I manually installed LuxRender 1.2.1 under /usr/local/bin/ and it works fine and dandy. I then created 5 new mime-types for LuxRender *.lxs, *.lxo, *.lxm, *.lxv and *.flm file formats (scene, objects, ...
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Backspace and ESC key not work
After upgrading to 13.04, I use Backspace key to back a level in nautilus, but it not working for me!
I use this key to rename a file, and it's still not work! Esc key have same problem!
Any ideas ...
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Is there a way to upgrade Nautilus 3.5 on ubuntu 12.04?
I would like to keep my LTS 12.04 instead of upgrading for the moment, I would like to have same icons and nautilus of 13.04. Is there a way to do this with out having to upgrade or is just a pain in ...
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Disable discovery or listing of HDD partitions
I would like to disable auto detection or listing of certain partitions in applications such as Nautilus. I have a HP laptop that contains a recovery partition along with a EFI partition and I would ...
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Files (Nautilus?) shows the real location of Symbolic Links
I some of the "folders" in my home directory are symbolic links to a larger hard drive mounted on /mnt/data.
I would like it if when I click on (for example) Music in my home directory, Nautilus ...
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Nautilus search provider Gnome-Shell Activities / Overview
I do not get search results for files in the Gnome Shell overview except for files that are placed in my Home folder. Currently, I am using Ubuntu Gnome 13.04 with GS 3.8 from the Gnome3 PPA, but have ...
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How can I stop Files from oversimplifying file types?
When I sort files by type in Files, both JPEG and TIFF file types are described unhelpfully as "Image". This oversimplification makes sorting effectively useless for me:
When writing this question ...
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How to get right-click scripts working in nautilus 3.6 (Ubuntu 13.04)
You can add scripts for clicking on files/folders by placing them in the ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/ directory. But the old way of placing right-click scripts in ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts that ...
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USB External Hard drive unplugged but still shows up!
I am running on Ubuntu 12.04. I have physically unplugged an external hard drive from my laptop, but for some reason it is still shown as mounted in Nautilus. When trying to get rid of it by ...
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Error when copying from Desktop to any other location
I recently installed Xubuntu and there were a lot of differences I noticed between xfce and gnome. I didn't like Thunar that much (mainly because of the searching feature - even catfish doesn't posses ...
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How to play some photos/audio/video from a UPNP Server
although Upnp is everywhere from XP onwards, it seems Ubuntu does not have any support out of the box, there are a lot of plugins for mediaplayers but not really well packaged, there is also XBMC, but ...
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File operations freezes
Got newest Ubuntu 13 with all updates and when copying files to my 32GB sd card, the file operations freezes just before it finishes and it does not complete. Files greater than 10mb do this, anything ...
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Why nautilus gear menu is ugly in 13.04? [closed]
Why nautilus gear menu is ugly in 13.04? How to fix it?
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Nautilus Quicklist Not Working
After having an issue with the new version of Gnome's nautilus breaking the wallpaper, I uninstalled and went back to the version included in Ubuntu 13.04. After a successful reinstallation, the ...
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Is there any File manager that highlights names that are searched for?
When in Chrome or other new web browsers, a word is searched in a page, all occurrences of the word is highlighted. I need a similar functionality for a File Manager. I tested Nautilus and Dolphin. I ...
