How to add "Open terminal here" to Nautilus' context menu?

Question

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.

Answer 1

You have to install the nautilus-open-terminal package from the universe repositories for Ubuntu versions up to Ubuntu 15.04:

sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal

If you want to install it with apturl, use this URL: apt://nautilus-open-terminal

Then:

nautilus -q  

In order to restart Nautilus

In Ubuntu 15.10, the functionality is already included in nautilus!

Answer 2

nautilus-open-terminal and nautilus-actions packages are available in Universe repository of Ubuntu 14.04. So run the below commands to enable universe repository and also to install above mentioned packages.

sudo add-apt-repository universe
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal
sudo apt-get install nautilus-actions

Finally run nautilus -q command to quit nautilus.Now you can be able to see Open in terminal option on right-clicking.

Answer 3

Here is my script to open terminal in the current directory,

I built my own after the open-terminal plugin stopped working for me

#!/bin/bash
##################################
# A nautilus script to open gnome-terminal in the current directory
# place in ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts
##################################
#                                       Remove file:// from CURRENT_URI
gnome-terminal --working-directory=`echo "$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_CURRENT_URI" | cut -c 8-`

PS: Here is some bonus info

Assigning a shortcut to the script

• Add executable script to ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts
• Wait some time - nautilus regenerates accels file

• Edit file ~/.gnome2/accels/nautilus

• Find line similar to this one:

; (gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ScriptsGroup/script_file:\\s\\s\\shome\\sgautam\\s.gnome2\\snautilus-scripts\\sopen-terminal" "")

• Remove comment (semicolon) and specify shortcut like this:

(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/ScriptsGroup/script_file:\\s\\s\\shome\\sgautam\\s.gnome2\\snautilus-scripts\\sopen-terminal" "<Primary><Shift>t")

• Save file.
• Logout - login.

Answer 4

Just use:

sudo apt-get install nautilus-extension-gnome-terminal 

and Logout/Login or reboot.

Answer 5

I have just installed Ubuntu 14.04 Desktop edition today 07-18-2014, and all I had to do to get the command line option in Nautilus was the following in a terminal:

sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal
nautilus -q

Answer 6

You'll need to install nautilus-admin (make sure to install the additional files) to have the right click option and others as well, since nautilus-open-terminal is no longer maintained.

Answer 7

If you are using Ubuntu 18.04 or newer:

sudo apt install nautilus-admin 

Answer 8

I used @Gautam's solution until I found it will not work (I mean a script itself) if path contains non-ascii characters because it's URL encoded.

Here is my little fix which is working at least for me. So, the script should look like this:

#!/usr/bin/gnome-terminal

According to gnome-terminal docs, when you execute this:

cd path/to/dir
gnome-terminal

gnome-terminal will use path/to/dir as working directory, which explains why that script works.

Answer 9

Do

sudo apt-get update

and try again.

Or

cd /tmp  
wget http://mirrors.kernel.org/ubuntu/pool/universe/n/nautilus-open-terminal/nautilus-open-terminal_0.20-1_amd64.deb
sudo dpkg -i nautilus*deb
sudo apt-get install -f

Answer 10

1. Find the .bashrc file in Home.
2. Open it with any text editor.
3. Add a line at the end: cd $PWD
4. Save it.
5. Close all instances of Nautilus
6. Now, when you open Nautilus you will get to see the "Open in terminal" option in the right-click menu and it loads the current directory path when clicked.

Answer 11

For recent versions of Ubuntu (eg. 18)... create/save this script in:

~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/

Note: you need to also chg the permission of this new file to allow execution

It will add a Scripts right click context menu item (with the name given e.g. 'open-in-terminal.sh') for any file or directory you click in nautilus.

#!/bin/bash
#
# When a directory is selected, go there. Otherwise go to current
# directory. If more than one directory is selected, show error.
if [ -n "$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS" ]; then
    set $NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS
    if [ $# -eq 1 ]; then
        destination="$1"
        # Go to file's directory if it's a file
        if [ ! -d "$destination" ]; then
            destination="`dirname "$destination"`"
        fi
    else
        zenity --error --title="ERROR! Open terminal here" \
            --text="Plz only select one directory."
        exit 1
    fi
else
    destination="`echo "$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_CURRENT_URI" | sed 's/^file:\/\///'`"
fi

# It's only possible to go to local directories
if [ -n "`echo "$destination" | grep '^[a-zA-Z0-9]\+:'`" ]; then
    zenity --error --title="ERROR! Open terminal here" \
        --text="Sorry, only local directories can be used."
    exit 1
fi

gnome-terminal --working-directory="$destination"

Based on this source: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NautilusScriptsHowto/SampleScripts#Open_terminal_here

Answer 12

This link provides the best working solution for adding the feature "Open terminal here" as context command menu for a folder.

http://www.n00bsonubuntu.net/content/add-open-terminal-here-to-file-menu-ubuntu-14-04/