Questions tagged [nautilus]
Nautilus (also known as GNOME Files) is the default file manager for Ubuntu and as such is used to manage files and folders. Nautilus is called "Files" by default on Ubuntu.
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How do I run executable scripts in Nautilus?
When I double-click on a script in Nautilus to run it, the script just opens in my text editor with no option to run it. Using Nautilus, how do I run executable text files and/or scripts?
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Traditional search-as-you-type on newer Nautilus versions
Until now I was using a "traditional" version of Nautilus: that that comes with Ubuntu 10.10. Now I'm using 3.6.3, included with Ubuntu 13.04 (most likely any recent version is equivalent for the ...
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How do I customize the context menu in Nautilus?
From time to time I come up with ideas of actions I'd like to have available in the context menu of Nautilus. How do I add them there? Is there something like a Thunar UCA plugin for Nautilus?
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How do I start Nautilus as root?
I've got a problem with Nautilus in Ubuntu 12.04 LTS.
When I run the command gksu nautilus /, the password ask box appears and I type my super-user password, then the password box disappears and ...
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How do I remove 'Places' entries from the Nautilus sidebar?
I want to remove Videos and Music from the left side panel. But, I can't seem to find the option to do so. How do you do that?
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How to show hidden folders in File Manager (Nautilus) on Ubuntu?
How do you show a hidden folder (whose name starts with .) in File Manager a.k.a. Nautilus on Ubuntu? I am somewhat new to Ubuntu and can't seem to find the "view" menu.
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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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How do I mark a file as executable via a GUI?
How do I mark a file as executable using a graphical interface (GUI)?
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How to add "Open terminal here" to Nautilus' context menu?
I am working on Ubuntu 12.04 64bit.
I want to add "Open terminal here" to Nautilus context or right-click menu but it tries to download 32bit version from Internet.
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Keyboard shortcut for "open a terminal here"
How can I create a keyboard shortcut so that when I press F12 in nautilus (or desktop), I get a terminal in the current directory?
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Nautilus-actions in 18.04
Nautilus-actions configuration tool, which was needed in order to have context menu actions in Nautilus doesn't seem available in the Software center in 18.04 LTS.
(This seemed reported as a bug here ...
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Creating .desktop files to use on the "Open with other application" tab
I am looking for the specs necessary to build a .desktop file to be used in Ubuntu 11.10.
Many terminal applications or even GUI application do not show on Open with other application tab anymore and ...
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Setting nautilus-open-terminal to launch Terminator rather than gnome-terminal
The nautilus-open-terminal package adds a menu/right-click option to open a terminal in the current directory.
I want to change this from opening gnome-terminal to opening terminator. There is some ...
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Add custom command in the open with dialog?
In earlier versions of Ubuntu (10.10-) there was an option in the "open with" tab in the properties window, to add a custom command to open a file. However, this is no longer the case in Ubuntu 11.10. ...
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How to set Nemo as the default file manager in Ubuntu?
I just installed Ubuntu and I want to replace nautilus with Nemo. I first installed Nemo by using the following commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:embrosyn/cinnamon
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get ...
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Nautilus not opening up, showing GLib error
When I launch nautilus from terminal the following error is printed and nautilus doesn't open up.
(nautilus:25179): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_interface_skeleton_unexport: assertion 'interface_->...
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How do I change the icon for a particular file type?
I'm trying to change the icon for application/x-hwp files. I've added the icons to the proper places, and checked it with assoGiate (after reading this thread). It shows that my desired icon is ...
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Disable auto-opening nautilus window after auto-mount
Every time I plug a USB stick in, nautilus opens a new window with the contents of the drive. I would like to disable this auto-opening of the nautilus window, but I would like the actual auto-mount ...
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Desktop shows a white or black background instead of wallpapers
After the upgrade from 12.10 to 13.04 my desktop background turns black after I try to set a image for that. How to fix it?
This is my desktop screen:
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Nautilus does not show the left bar, how do I turn it back on?
When I open nautilus does not open the left bar where it says computer and down markers such as music, documents, videos, downloads. I reinstalled nautilus from the synaptic package manager but ...
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How can I instruct Nautilus to pre-generate thumbnails?
I have a large library of PDF documents (papers, lectures, handouts) that I want to be able to quickly navigate through. For that I need thumbnails.
At the same time however, I see that the ~/....
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How do I enable MP3 preview?
Just upgraded from 11.04 to 11.10 and Nautilus no longer previews MP3 files when I hover over them.
Another PC that's been running 11.10 for a while also experienced this after the latest update
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How can I give other drives and partitions short, meaningful names in nautilus?
In nautilus and Unity the external drive has a nice short descriptive name "mcat", but all partitions on the 4 internal drives are displayed as a size (834 GB filesystem) or a huge 32-character string ...
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How to restart nautilus without logging out?
How do I just restart the nautilus after adding a nautilus script without having to log out.
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"You are not the owner..." message when trying to access folder
In the properties menu of this folder the permission is set to "root" user and group, it shows the message "you are not the owner, so you cannot change these permissions."
I am indeed the owner and ...
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Is there any tweak to bring back emblems in Nautilus?
I read the following dev email Removing 'Backgrounds and Emblems' and when i read this part:
Note that this does not completely remove the ability for extensions
(e.g. Dropbox) to add emblems ...
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Keyboard shortcut for open terminal Nautilus >= 3.16
How can I set a shortcut for open terminal in current directory for nautilus?
I'm using Nautilus 3.16.2 and I already tried this answer but look like it's broken in newer version.
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Refresh thumbnails in nautilus
How does one refresh thumbnails in nautilus? In my videos folder I have some MKVs and only half of them have the movie border and a excerpt from the movie and the others (also MKVs encoded in the same ...
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How do I scale the enormously sized desktop icons on Ubuntu 18.04?
I just upgraded to 18.04 (with GNOME 3.28) from 16.04. I am using gnome-shell, gnome-ubuntu-desktop. After upgrading the icon size on desktop are very large.
I am unable to find my option to decrease ...
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How can I edit Nautilus Places sidebar and Unity QuickList?
I'm running Ubuntu 13.04 with Nautilus 3.6 and I want to edit the Nautilus Places sidebar menu (Not Bookmarks).
By default have the following items: Recent, Home, Desktop, Documents, Downloads, Music,...
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How to achieve List/Tree view in Nautilus?
How to achieve List/Tree view in Nautilus like the following screenshot?
Cant find information about this.
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Im using Ubuntu Remix with pure Gnome 3, and last version of Nautilus.
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How do I hide / remove a partition from the Nautilus left panel?
I have a luks setup with encrypted partition. And I don't want everyone on my computer to see that I have such partition. Unfortunately it shows up in the nautilus "devices" panel as "Encrypted ...
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Nautilus: Show image thumbnails at more than 200% size
I would like to delete some images with nautilus.
I increased the size to 200%.
My monitor has a high resolution and the image are too small for me.
I would like to increase the size even more, but ...
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What is the "Templates" folder in the home directory for?
For as long as I can remember, every time I install Ubuntu there is a folder in the home directory called "Templates." I've always just deleted it, but I'm curious: what's it supposed to be used for, ...
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Where is "open with..." in Nautilus?
In Ubuntu 11.04 I usually edit my *.fig files by clicking on the icons. The application (script) which opened the file was texfig. This script was chosen by "open with..." in nautilus. But now there ...
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Assigning shortcuts (accelerators) to Nautilus 3
I want to assign some shortcuts to menu actions in Nautilus 3.2.1 running under Ubuntu 11.10.
I followed the steps shown here How do you create a "new document" keyboard shortcut? but it did ...
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What is the difference between "Unmount", "Eject", "Safely Remove Drive" and the eject icon?
When I right-click the desktop icon for my USB drive or SD card I have the choice to "Eject" or "Safely Remove Drive":
In the Tree side pane in Nautilus, I can either "Unmount" or "Eject":
The ...
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How can I easily encrypt a file?
Is there any simple (IE: right click in Nautilus) way to password protect a particular folder/file in Ubuntu? I've got a few files containing sensitive info and I'd much prefer that if/when I leave my ...
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How to show full date and time in Nautilus/Files 3.6+ list view?
The list view of Nautilus 3.6 shows the dates files were modified in a variety of ways: the hour and minute if modified on the current day, and the month and day if modified during the current year, ...
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How do I change the default file manager back to Nautilus?
A while back, I set my default file manager to Nemo. I like it a lot, but it constantly crashes. I remember editing a text file to set it as default, but I forgot which file it was. How do I switch ...
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Cannot move file to trash warning when trying to delete a file in Nautilus
I am trying to delete files in Nautilus and every time I try to delete one it always gives me this message:
Cannot move file to trash, do you want to delete immediately?
Then it gives me several ...
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Is there some way to decrease folders/icons size in Nautilus 3.18?
In the newest Nautilus 3.18 the smallest folder/icon size is really too big. Is there some way to hack (or something) this program and set a smaller one?
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How to make nautilus use file-roller in 17.10 like in 17.04?
In Ubuntu 17.10 ubuntu upgraded Nautilus (File Browser) to version 3.26.0. New nautilus is not using file-roller anymore, it has switched to an integrated compression mechanism.
This makes it ...
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What are the risks of running Nautilus as root?
Whenever I try to access files outside my home directory I get a permission error. People keep recommending running Nautilus as root by running the following commands in a terminal:
sudo -i nautilus
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How to open Nautilus at current command line directory?
I was wondering if anybody knew a command that would allow me to open a Nautilus (if that's the right name for the Ubuntu graphic/window explorer) window from the command line at the current directory ...
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Are there any alternatives to Nautilus?
Are there any good alternatives to Nautilus? I'm looking for something lightweight, with a cleaner interface, but the ability to manually enter file paths is still important. Any suggestions?
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How can I assign custom icons to folders?
How do I assign custom icons to folders, as well as the default folders Desktop, Downloads, Music, etc.? I know that one way is to assign the properties of folders, but I want to assign icons in the ...
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Change default user folders path?
In previous releases of Ubuntu, I used Ubuntu Tweak to change the paths to the user folders (Music, Documents, Videos, etc). I can't find an option in Gnome 3 to do this, and Ubuntu Tweak's ppa still ...
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Switch from path bar to location bar permanently in Nautilus
As most of you know, you can switch between the visual location entry, and the text based one in Nautilus, by hitting Ctrl+L.
When I tried to set this value permanently in gconf-editor, it doesn't ...
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How to set default opening folder for Nautilus file manager?
How do I configure Nautilus to open at my Documents folder instead of my home folder?
I've scoured this site and found answers instructing users to edit the /usr/share/applications/nautilus.desktop ...