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 to make terminal sushi a file with focus on it?
I plan to use sushi as my preview application in Zotero(A famous open source research assistant), it is similar to run a command which is “sushi FILENAME” in shell. it turn out that the preview window ...
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How to resize the icons in file browser in Ubuntu 22.04 with Gnome?
I don't know exactly if the problem is related to Nautilus or Ubuntu itself.
The files in the opening/saving files window are too small and i could not find a way to resize it.
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How can I bring back the "Recent" folder in Nautilus side bar?
After an updated to Ubuntu 22.04.2, skipping over a few versions, the "Recent" folder in the side bar of my Nautilus has disappeared. The "Recent" folder is still there and works ...
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What are these mounted volumes and how to get rid of them (snaps?)
I'm using gnome on 22.04 for a couple weeks and these volumes have appeared on my taskbar.
They annoyingly stick around whether mounted or unmounted, and their names are unclear. I suspect they are ...
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Not able to access samba share in Nautilus on Unbutu 22.04
I am running OpenMediaVault NAS version 6 on a Raspberry Pi and have a SMB/CIFS share that I can access from Nautilus on a Ubuntu 20.04 install and also on Android, but does not work in Nautilus on a ...
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How to add image preview to nautilus Open Files window?
After upgrading to Ubuntu 22.04,the image preview disapeared in Open Files window, which is very annoying. Without a preview, how are we supposed to know which file is the photo that we are about to ...
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Disable use of double-height rows in special folders (trash, etc.) in Files
In Files I always show files and folders as rows of the smallest possible height, since this corresponds most closely to what I use in other OSes and is by far the most conducive for quickly scanning ...
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There is no context menu after installing rabbitVCS in ubuntu 22.04
I installed the rabbitVCS-nautilus ver 0.18-3 on ubuntu 22.04 like the following:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:rabbitvcs/ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install rabbitvcs-nautilus
I have tried ...
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23.04: how to add new folder to Nautilus window using GUI
Since upgrading to 23.04 there is no longer the option to add a new folder/directory or file under the "three lines" menu in the top right of the Nautilus window. The are only options for a ...
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Drag-and-drop problem in Ubuntu 23.04
I am frequently downloading zip or rar archive files from the Web to extract their contents into a folder. There are two applications on my system that handle these type of archive files: Archive ...
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Nautilus "Save as..." from browser download appears white while the theme is yaru-dark-red everywhere after 22.04 to to 22.10 to 23.04 update
a couple hours ago i was running ubuntu 22.04 LTS and wanted to switch to the latest release, so i've updated via terminal to 22.10 and then to 23.04, everything looks fine, but when i press "...
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Nautilus don't change to dark mode
I'm using ubuntu 23.04, I used both chrome & firefox, but when uploading / downloading files, nautilus showing the light theme, even when the system use dark mode. Anyone having same problem?
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Ubuntu 23.04 Network File Sharing / Windows cannot access \\UBUNTU\Public
I have a clean installation of Ubuntu 23.04 that I'm trying to configure to share the Public folder with a computer running Windows 10 Pro. The Windows computer is able to access shared folders from ...
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Start Nautilus from Firefox download
I am on Ubuntu 22.04 I have the latest Firefox installed. When i download a file from the internet. It ends up in the download folder. And Firefox show list of downloaded files. There is a "...
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Templates in Ubuntu 22.04 not working
I frequently use right click -> New Document in Nautilus, or "Files". After a recent update, I am no longer able to create an option for this via:
$ touch ~/Templates/Empty\ Document
The ...
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How can I report a bug about `nautilus` conveniently
How can I report a bug about nautilus conveniently (without creating an account or signing in). If you want to know about bugs you want to make it convenient right?
Here is a description of the bug......
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How to have text path by defalut for open windows?
I found the path with button really unconvenient, I would prefer something that can change dynamically, like in Windows. It seems it is not possible, so I changed it to fully text path with the ...
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super + space not working in login page
on the login page, changing the keyboard language is not possible with super + space shortcut. by pressing super + space it shows changing language popup but does not affect keyboard language.
also in ...
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padlock on directory icons may be missing
Suppose I have myDirectory which contains files and directories and I issue the command...
chmod --recursive a-w myDirectory
nautilus will display a padlock on the icon of myDirectory. There is no ...
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No search results with filebrowser and terminal
Hei,
Ubuntu 22.10
I don't get search results while searching for files both with databrowser
and terminal.
Concrete: "Search" stopps after search in the first mentioned directory.
A lot of &...
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Preview Pane on ubuntu (jammy) in Nautilus
I like the feature in Windows (Preview pane) but I want this feature in Ubuntu (jammy) in Nautilus File Manager too.
If there is any plugin (Kindly share that).
Anything through which I can enable the ...
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Samba shares don't work
Ubuntu 20:04LTS
It have being a very strange error with my samba shares, after an update yesterday.
First I can not sambashare a folder home/Downloads/TDL. Nautilus give an error (fig1)
Fist I can not ...
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Anyway to change Gnome Files (Nautilus) ellipsis position for long file names?
It currently puts ellipsis the middle. I want ellipsis at the end. Is that possible, or impossible?
For example, it currently shows O Say can you ... dawn's early light.txt. I want this to be O Say ...
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Upload file in browser from network share not working
I ran into an issue when triyng to upload a file from a network share (smb),
the brwoser does nothing, copiyng the file to a local folder and selecting it then works.
I'm usning Ubuntu 22.04.2
the ...
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Failed to connect to socket /run/user/1000/at-spi/bus: Permission denied, revisited
Prerequisites, I installed:
sudo apt install dbus-x11
sudo apt-get install samba-common-bin
sudo mkdir /var/lib/samba/usershares
The following commands
xhost +SI:localuser:myOtherUser
sudo --user ...
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Shared folder visibile but not accessibile
I installed Nautilus and share a folder.
I'm able to see my folder via Windows or Android, but when I try to open it I get an error (unable to access, no permissions). My goal is to have a shared ...
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Nautilus, need to connect NFS share with username and password
I'm running Ubuntu 22.04.2 LTS client.
In Nautilus I've managed to mount a file share on a Synology server (supports NFS 4.1 and earlier) without issue clicking on "other locations", connect ...
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Window folding with titlebar still open in Nautilus like Thunar in Xfce
I recently migrated to Ubuntu from Manjaro. Is there a window folding (not minimize) feature that I can configure or install a package to make it available in Ubuntu? Thank you.
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How to change the alternate row color of Nautilus file manager in Ubuntu?
I'm using the Nautilus file manager in Ubuntu and I want to change the alternate row color of the listed items. I'm using the Mojave-Dark theme, and I want to change the background color of the ...
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Access changed overnight to external drives
I had an external hard drive which has always worked for years. All of a sudden one day I opened my libre office which multiple files that were open after a crash and libre can't recover them because ...
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GIMP can't access plug-in folder
Ok, I want to access the plug-in folder in GIMP and I got this message. What is this?
Can't show file in file manager: Calling ShowItems failed: GDBus.Error:org.freedesktop.DBus.Error.AccessDenied: An ...
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Nautilus seems to be acting up -in 22.04?
Just yesterday, when I use Nautilus, things are acting very strange. For example, I cannot move a file without it freezing up. If I don't copy or move, I can still look around, but when I close the ...
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Getting back "star" option to nautilus right click menu
Recent updates of Nautilus removed the "star" option from right click menu, and to star a file you have to switch to "list view" and click on star on the far right coloumn.
I ...
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Wrong MIME type and icon for a file in Nautilus
I am writing a GUI application in Python using PyQt5, with the main application named main_app.py. Despite being simply a Python script, and file -i main_app.py returning the correct MIME type text/x-...
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Nautilus Path Bar - Width
I am using the Ubuntu 22.04. On the top of any Nautilus window there is this box that contains the current path. However, that doesn't scale up appropriately with window width. Is there a tweak to ...
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"File is not responding" Ubuntu 22.04
my Nautilus randomly crashes and it does all the times I use the search bar looking for a file or for a folder, I just need to type a letter and it is gone.
The message I get is "File is not ...
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How to force Nautilus/Files explorer to show file extensions
I want to see the file extensions, unfortunatelly, I don't find any configuration to enable it.
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How to force Nautilus to use SMB3 on Ubuntu 22.04?
I have 1Gbs Ethernet but all Ubuntu 22.04 machines on it have speed 40MBs and fallback to SMB2. I verified network has 1Gbs with iperf, also Windows machines have normal 110MBs.
I also have 110MBs on ...
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Disk properties in Gnome Files shows a black chart for disk usage on Ubuntu 22.04
I have upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04 and noticed that if I open the Properties window for a disk (not a plain folder) the pie chart intended to show disk usage is all black. On prior versions it used to ...
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"Files" application closes immediately, nautilus segfault
After installing Dropbox on a clean install of Ubuntu 22.04, when I try to open the "Files" application, it opens a window and then immediately closes it. When I try to run nautilus from the ...
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Arrow before folders when you enable expandability in the list view, to be visible only if subfolders or files are present in the parent folder
In Ubuntu 22.04 Nautilus > Preferences you have "Expandable Folders in List View"
If you activate the "Tree" option, the arrow in front of the folders will be present even for ...
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Ubuntu VNC doesnt start gnome
I have Ubuntu 22.04 AWS instance with the following ~/.vnc/xstartup config:
#!/bin/sh
export XKL_XMODMAP_DISABLE=1
unset SESSION_MANAGER
unset DBUS_SESSION_BUS_ADDRESS
[ -x /etc/vnc/xstartup ] &&...
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Integrating Meld with nautilus on 22.10
Some time ago, it was possible to get meld integrated with nautilus in that one could select two files in nautilus, right-click to get the context menu which included the command Compare with meld. ...
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Desktop now showing home folders / files. Solutions tried haven't worked
I'm new to Ubuntu and I'd just started to get to grips with 20.04 when my desktop suddenly started showing the home directory contents.
I've found a couple of possible solutions, but they haven't ...
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can't add usershares using nautilus-share
When I try to add usersahre using nautilus-share pulgin I get the following error
'net usershare' returned error 255: net usershare add: cannot convert name "Everyone" to a SID. The ...
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Nautilus does not launch
For some reason, nautilus stopped working properly. I am on Ubuntu 20.04. Rebooting does not help, as some advices I found on the web. When I launch nautilus in GUI it thinks for a minute and then ...
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Replace all identical files, ask for all non-identical
How can I replace all identical files when moving files to different folders, but summon a dialog when there are non identical files with the same name? I am using nautilus. If there is no way, I am ...
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How to make Public folder sharable over the network in Ubuntu 22.10?
I'd like to make the Public folder (in my Home folder) sharable and writable over my internal network in Ubuntu 22.10. Is there a way to do this from the GNOME user interface?
I recall, in prior ...
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cannot run nautilus-desktop
Switched to ubuntu from windows a few days ago, I could open desktop folders as usual. But since tomorrow, when I double click a folder nothing happens, it doesn't opens. I can still open it through ...
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Where is the "scripts" directory in Nautilus 43?
Where do you put the scripts that appear in the context menu when you right click in a folder or on a file in Nautilus?
(Screenshot from a previous version of Nautilus)
My scripts used to work just ...
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