Nautilus is the default file manager for Ubuntu.
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Marlin/Thunar sidebar like Nautilus
Is it possible to get monochrome icons in the sidebar of file managers Thunar and Marlin, like the default in Nautilus 3.6?
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RabbitVCS won't show in Nautilus on Ubuntu 12.04
I'm using Ubuntu 12.04 and have installed Subversion 1.7.8-1+WANdisco and RabbitVCS 0.15.3-1~precise (the latter according to http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/RabbitVCS). The following packages are ...
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Why I can't see the thumbnails in Nautilus?
Problem Loading Thumb Previews:
This started to happen after upgraded Ubuntu from 12.04 to 12.10.
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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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file browsing window crashes when attempting 'file->open' after upgrade from 12.10 to 13.04
After upgrading from 12.10 to 13.04, whenever I attempt to open a file from any application (firefox, thunderbird, vlc, etc..) besides gedit, the file browsing window doesn't display any files and is ...
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How to disable nautilus from handling the desktop?
As it is the only way to activate transparent themes in Gnome-shell:
How to disable Nautilus from handling the desktop?
Can I make it handle the desktop again?
What will happen to the unity and ...
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Desktop shows a white or black background instead of wallpapers
after upgrade from 12.10 to 13.04 my desktop background turn black after I try to set a image for that.
How to fix it?
This is my desktop screen.
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Is Privacy's Delete History button supposed to delete Nautilus' 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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Downgraded Nautilus to 3.4, Wallpaper in Greeter won't update
I did some research and it says the /var/lib/AccountsService/user/ is updated by Nautilus instead of gnome-settings. I recently downgraded to Nautilus 3.4 instead of 3.6, and it is no longer doing ...
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Add tags or annotations to text files
I have a lot of similar text files - data in csv format etc. - that differ only in minor aspects (data normalized or not normalized...). It is very difficult to find meaningful names for the different ...
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Updating Quantal 12.10 to Raring 13.04 broke seahorse-nautilus
After upgrading from Quantal to Raring the nautilus-seahorse plugin for GPG encryption cease to work. When right clicking in a file the GUI opens and ask to select a key for encryption but the ...
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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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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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How can I tell when Files is done searching?
When I search for files in Files, it can take anywhere from a few seconds to several minutes for files to stop being added to the search results. Sometimes I think the search is done, but then more ...
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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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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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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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Is there a way to restore Nautilus' split screen (F3) feature?
I am using Ubuntu 13.04 since today and I am missing the split screen function in Nautilus. Is there any way to patch Nautilus so that this amazing function is usable again?
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Can't move files to the trash
When I want to move a file to the Trash Can, Nautilus give me an message saying this:
You can't move example.file to the trash can. Do you want to remove it
inmediately?
I can give you this ...
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Copying photos from camera stalls - how to track down issue?
When I copy files from my camera (connected via USB) to the SSD in my laptop a few files get copied and then the copy stalls. I'm not sure why, any ideas or things to investigate appreciated, or bug ...
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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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How can I get my bookmarks shown in nemo quicklists automatically
How can I get my bookmarks, shown in Nemo Quicklists automatically.
Like nautilus can right now. As seen in the image below.
When i create a bookmark in nautilus, it is automatically shown in ...
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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 can I install a Nautilus script?
I found a nautilus script I would like to use. How do I install it?
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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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How to make folders like “System Volume Information” or “RECYCLER” hidden, just like it is on windows?
I have this external hard drive, and I used it in windows, now that I use it on Ubuntu, and it is kind of annoying to see files like System Volume Information, so how can I make it hidden?
Or how can ...
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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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copying files to usb stick never finished
I tried to copy 3.3GB iso file into a 64GB usb stick, the progress bar show completed but the copying operation windows doesn't closed after almost an hour now and still hanging not closed.
I'm using ...
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Nautilus 3.6 doesn't have a status bar?
In 12.04, Nautilus showed the amount of remaining space in the status bar , but in 13.04 the status bar is gone.
gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.window-state start-with-status-bar true
turned out ...
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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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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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How can I add 'emacs' to one of the 'Show other application' in file explorer
In file explorer (Nautilus) under Ubuntu, I can select a file and right click and scroll to:
open with other application
My question is how can I add emacs to that list of "other application"
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Nautilus 3.6.3: open folder with
Ubuntu 12.10 64 bits
Gnome-shell 3.6.2
Nautilus 3.6.3
I have installed SMPlayer. It has a useful (to me) option called "Add folder content to SMPlayer playlist" (or something like that, my native ...
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How can I open a folder in a new window?
It appears that Nautilus no longer provides an Open in New Window option in its right-click context menus:
What procedure should I now use instead when I want to open a folder in a new window?
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How to add bookmark to Nautilus 3.6?
I updated the Nautilus to 3.6 in Ubuntu 12.10, but I didn't find the how to add my folder to "Bookmark" section.
If I press "ctrl+B", it show the list of bookmarks, but I can't add any. I can't drag ...
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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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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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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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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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Get location of “true” GVFS path from Nautilus
I mount my Samba shares through Nautilus. I know that, behind the scenes, the share is fuse-mounted and Nautilus somehow does the translation between smb:// URLs and the actual location in the file ...
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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 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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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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File explorer: cannot open a folder like a tree in Ubuntu 13.04
I have updated my computer to Ubuntu 13:04 and I have noticed that in Nautilus I cannot open a folder with the tree icon there was on the left in the previous version. With this option is easy to ...
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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 do I get my shared disk back on line in Ubuntu 13.04
I have a folder on my disk which I share over the LAN so my wife can do backups to it. It has worked since I can remember. Now I've updated to 13.04 and suddenly I no longer see it or even my computer ...
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nautilus-compare (meld integration with nautilus) and other nautilus-actions-extra packages not working with Ubuntu 13.04
I had nautilus-compare (and other nautilus-actions-extra packages) perfectly working with Ubuntu 12.04
I've just did a fresh install of Ubuntu raring ringtail, and then I ran
sudo apt-get install ...
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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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