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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File dialog in Chrome does not remember last folder
I recently upgraded from Ubuntu 16.04 to 20.04, and there are so many issues that negatively impact my productivity. Most of them are related to nautilus.
In Chrome, when I navigate to a path for ...
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How to use a more recent version of nautilus on Ubuntu 20.04
A bug has been introduced in Nautilus 4 years ago, where opening a multi-selection of files with an app launches N instances of the app, instead of opening the N files in a single instance (previous/...
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Replace Gnome Terminal with Tilix in Nautilus
I want to use Tilix instead of Gnome Terminal because Gnome Terminal has so many bugs that bother me and that just don't get fixed.
I already figured out that I can make Nautilus give me an option to ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 unable to mark as star to few file and folder
I am able to mark as star "*" to a directory:
But, I am not able to mark any subdirectory and another file inside the parent directory:
I have checked for permissions: both parent and ...
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How can I reinstate file roller/ archive manager to work with Nautilus, in Ubuntu 18.04?
In Ubuntu 16.04 I could compress a file or folder by right clicking on it and the File Roller/Archive Manager window would pop up allowing me to set a password or split the archive into volumes.
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How to access Google drive using Gnome Online Accounts (GOA) in command line for Ubuntu 16.04?
Before anything, this is not (as far as I could search) a duplicate.
I enabled GOA for my Google account and enabled Files, so my account showed up in Nautilus under my computer just fine. To my ...
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Nautilus + Deja Dup: no menu item for "File -> Restore Missing Files..."
I'm trying to explore my files that have been backed-up with Duplicity/Deja Dup. My understanding is that the "File -> Restore Missing Files" menu item comes from the ubuntuone-client ...
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How to make Ubuntu File Manager show the "real" path after opening a shortcut link?
When I open a link, instead of the real path, the file manager shows the location of the link file.
Example: home/Desktop/Link to html/wiki
What I would like the file manager to show is: /var/www/...
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How can I exclude specific folders from thumbnail generation?
So I have a folder I would like Nautilus to skip generating thumbnails for because there are too many files and too many changes to it.
I saw that we can disable thumbnails for a specific filetype ...
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File manager that doesn't freeze when working with SMB shares?
I work at a company that uses Samba for file sharing, which means that I rely on it a lot throughout the day. Unfortunately, the service provider of the VPN has not been able to cope with the traffic ...
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Nautilus shortcut for "Open in Terminal" and gvfs
I am trying to assign a shortcut to "Open in Terminal" in Nautilus. I have implemented the solution here with nautilus-scripts and the Perl file.
While this solution works well for local ...
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How to set Thunar as the default file manager?
I want to set Thunar as my default file manager. The answers given here and here did not help me.
For instance, I already have Thunar as the preferred File Manager
But when I use a dialog box to ...
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Cannot add some files to Starred folder in Nautilus
Since the starred folder is built in and I cannot remove it from Nautilus, I figured I'd use it rather than make my own Bookmark for most used files.
But it seems like I am limited to only adding ...
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How to change Nautilus shortcuts keys in Ubuntu 18.04?
Changing ~/.config/nautilus/accels doesn't seem to have any effect.
I tried to change some existings shortcuts and set one for "Open in terminal".
Similar question:
Can't set custom accels in 17....
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How to group mounted devices under Nautilus icon in the launcher?
I am using three physical discs in my computer, first mounted in /, second in /home/me/XMem and the third one in /media/me/stor.
In Ubuntu 14.04, opening any folder in any of the discs opened Nautilus ...
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16.04, nautilus problems and no files on desktop
After last dist-upgrade my unity is work but I can't open folder (or start nautilus by term), and my desktop dosn't contain any file or folder, or accept click on it.
This is the error on launch ...
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How can I view images sorted by width and height?
I have a bunch of different sized images in a folder. I would like to sort the images by width x height and then copy some to another folder using a file explorer. (In this case i want to move all my ...
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Nautilus crashes when trying to open another window by right-clicking the Nautilus icon on the dock and then selecting "Documents" (Ubuntu 21.04)
When I right-click the Nautilus icon on my dock while at least one Nautilus window is already open, I can select "Documents" in the appearing menu. This should open another Nautilus window ...
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Progress bar on copying files to USB
On the Nautilus file manager, when copying any file to a flash drive, the progress bar will immediately go to 100%, signifying the transfer has completed. The issue is that the files have only been ...
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Save File Dialogue Box in Ubuntu 20.04 Doesn't Show "Recent"?
Although browsers have a default save directory, but we don't always want to save things in the default directory especially at times when we are certain as to what we are downloading and why. In such ...
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Caja to perform instant search like Nautilus?
Between these 2 file managers, I like Caja more. But the only thing I like about Nautilus is the search feature.
Nautilus does instant search once we type anything.
It does not need Find button to ...
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Show progress in nautilus for custom script
I'm using ubuntu 19.10 without any modifications and I got a couple scripts set up so I can execute them with the contextual right click menu.
The thing is, once they are going, they are completely ...
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How do I enable 'New Document' option without pre-set name?
When you right-click on an empty space, there's the option to create a new folder. Old versions of Ubuntu used to include the option to create a new text document as well, but now you need to enable ...
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Nautilus hangs 18.04
I have been using Ubuntu for years; generally it is extremely stable, I usually run the LTS versions. However the most common thing that takes my system down is issues around nautilus; today ...
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Single-click file rename in Nautilus
Is there a way to configure Nautilus (Files) to open the "rename" mode for a file by single-clicking it (like in Windows) instead of opening the context menu and searching for the "...
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When uploading files in Chrome, how do I choose the file browser?
When trying to upload a file/image in Chrome you get the default file browser. I think it's Thunar or Nautilus. I changed my default file browser to Dolphin file explorer however.
All my folders and ...
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"Empy Trash" opens Nautilus (Files) window
When trying to empty the Trash (right-clicking on the Trash icon in the launcher and then selecting "Empty Trash"), a new window of Nautilus opens (working directory ~).
Is this a bug? Are there any ...
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Nautilus - show folder size in List view?
In the List view in Nautilus, I can see datestamp, name, etc - but it would be great to add one more extra tab and make the size of everything contained in a folder visible at a glance as well.
Is ...
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How can I have nautilus open to previously used directory?
Before I upgraded to Ubuntu 22.04 on my System76 mini (Meerkat), I was running Ubuntu 20.04.
Before upgrading to 22.04, when I went to upload a file to a website (something I do constantly for my work)...
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Nautilus has a double title bar on ubuntu unity 22.04. Is there any config to hide the additional title bar?
Nautilus has a double title bar on ubuntu unity 22.04. Is there any config to hide the additional title bar?
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How can I turn off word wrapping on nautilus (icon-view)?
Is there any way I can avoid the word wrapping on nautilus' icon-view? The following behavior annoys me:
I tried this solution using gsettings set org.gnome.nautilus.desktop text-ellipsis-limit 1, ...
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Correct way to copy-paste file location from nautilus into a file chooser?
To paste a file or directory into the file-chooser dialogue of any application, I used to be able to select and copy the file from any Nautilus window with Ctrl-c, then paste the whole pathname into ...
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How to show folders on Nautilus "Recent" list?
I am using Ubuntu 20.04 LTS and on Nautilus (Files application on Ubuntu), there is a "Recent" function on the left sidebar that shows all the files that I recently opened using Nautilus.
However, it ...
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How to set custom bookmark icons with Gio?
I'm building a custom live CD with Cubic
I want to add a default customized folder on $HOME, "Projects"
What I did:
Edit /etc/xdg/user-dirs.defaults
Add a line PROJECTS=Projects
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The ...
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Change Context Menu option "Open in Terminal" of Nautilus to launch tilix In Ubuntu 18.04?
Trying here without success to change the terminal application to tilix when clicking on Open In Terminal in context menu of Nautilus; now, it launches gnome-terminal.
Already installed and launched ...
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gio mount - how to use Gnome keyring for password?
I am using Nextcloud as an "Online Service" in Ubuntu 18.04. After logging in and starting a Nautilus (Files) window I can mount the service without (re)entering my password by clicking on it in the ...
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Ubuntu 18.04 Nautilus copy image instead of path
I am used to simply COPY (Ctrl+C) an image file from the file manager and past it into a document (Slack, Google Docs etc), this is standard feature on Windows and macOS.
However on Ubuntu 18.04 and ...
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multiple 'open with' applications in right-click context menu with nautilus/filemanager-actions?
I would really like to get the old Gnome behavior restored, where you could right-click, hover over Open With... and then a submenu with a list of applications would open - something like this:
Have ...
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Why can I not drag and drop files from nautilus file manager to firefox in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS?
I try to drag and drop a file from nautilus to firefox but can't do that.
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"Desktop" folder disappeared from Nautilus side bar
On my Nautilus in Ubuntu 17.10, Desktop icon/link on side bar disappeared. How could I restore it?
I've tried to edit user-dirs.dirs file without any success. The strange thing is the difference ...
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How to disable `autorun.inf` access on Ubuntu 16.04
Whenever I mount a filesystem, something tries to access a file named autorun.inf on this fresh mount. How can I prevent Ubuntu 16.04 from doing this? (FYI: I am logged in, Graphical session with ...
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How can Nautilus dropdown and popup notifications be disabled?
I recently upgraded to Ubuntu 16.10 and am using Nautilus 3.20.3. I find that Nautilus has changed such that actions like deletions and moves result in dropdown and popup notifications that obscure ...
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Title bar & Nautilus not theming in Unity in 16.04
Have seen numerous posts on this, but the only solution reported to work (adding a delay to the gnome settings daemon plugin) doesn't work.
Ubuntu 16.04 in a VMWare Workstation 12 VM.
Installed ...
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Gtk-CRTICAL […] errors when starting 'nautilus' or 'evince' from the Terminal
when I am starting evince or nautilus from shell I am receiving those error-messages.
Does anyone know how to fix them?
I tried to reinstall both programs but the error continues.
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How to always show some hidden files in Nautilus?
I know all the files with dot in front of their names are hidden. Nautilus have an option to hide some specific files without dot in their name – by listing their names in .hidden text file, so these ...
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Marking/Tagging a file in Nemo/Nautilus
I'd love a feature in which I can simply mark/tag a file 'Done'(or similar) whenever I'm done with it. If I have a folder full of 200+ files which I need to go through (videos or music), then it would ...
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Nautilus is slow if a lot of images are in a directory
I have 400 images in a directory. I look at the directory with nautilus.
The first time I open the directory it is very slow. I have a modern laptop with 4 cores and plenty of RAM.
My use case:
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Is there a way to join multiple Nautilus windows into one window with different tabs?
Many times I end up with many Nautilus windows open. I would like to reduce clutter by joining them into one window with different tabs.
Is there a(n easy) way?
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How to disable trash for remote filesystems in Nautilus?
Is there a way to tell Nautilus (or gvfs) to avoid using the Trash when deleting files on remote filesystems?
Before Nautilus 2.5.0 there was a filesystem-attributes.xml that had a "trash" flag, but ...
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How to open a file on Nautilus File Dialog through HTTP URL?
It's available on Windows. For example, when a browser file input ask you to select a file from your computer, you can type a url as a location. And it's going to be downloaded as a temporary file and ...
