Questions tagged [nautilus]
Nautilus is the official file manager in Gnome.
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Nautilus keyboard shortcut for expanding/collapsing folders
In Nautilus' list view, is there a keyboard shortcut for expanding or collapsing a folder? I reckon this is just left and right arrow keys for MacOSX (Finder)
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Unable to establish connection to server
Working in CentOS. Want to have drag-and-drop SCP access to another system.
Opened up the file manager (nautilus) and went under File -> "Connect to Server". Filed in the information, hit connect. ...
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make quantaplus a default editor for php files in ubuntu
In Ubuntu, how can I make Quanta Plus the default editor for PHP files?
In Windows we just use the open with context menu the first time for any new types of files and check use this application for ...
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How to add new entry in context menu in Gnome?
There is a very useful entry in gnome's context menu when clicking on any file:
Open with gedit (the first entry in the context menu).
I'd like to add similar one, for my second favourite editor.
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Ctrl+C and Ctrl+V malfunctioning
Sometimes, I select an item, hit Ctrl+C, browse to a folder, hit Ctrl+V, but no item is copied to the folder or some other item is copied to the folder (eg from a previous select + Ctrl+C).
For ...
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How to toggle location bar format in Nautilus?
In a previous version of Nautilus the location had a button for toggling between a text field for the directory path, and a row of buttons (one per directory in the path). With the install of Ubunbtu ...
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Ubuntu's gui "Open With" command is not memorizing the application
In Ubuntu, when we right-click a icon and use "open with", there is an option to remember that application for that file's type.
For some reason, my system is no more memorizing the application (I ...
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Nautilus cannot handle "sftp" locations via x11
I'm logging into my home computer (Ubuntu 10.04) via ssh, and now I want to open a remote connection (one that is stored in my bookmarks).
Nautilus tells me "Nautilus cannot handle "sftp" locations ...
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How to open some location in new tab in existing nautilus window? (from console)
I want to type something in console that will open some location (on example home dir) in already opened nautilus window. Is it possible?
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Is there a shortcut key for file browser? (Equiv. of Win+E)
In windows you can press the Win+E to get the Windows Explorer window to open up any time.
Is there an equivalent global hot-key to get the file explorer to show up in Ubuntu Karmic?
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Nautilus remote mount resolve numeric uids and gids to names
In Gnome Nautilus I have a remote samba mount through SSH under Ubuntu 10.04 (gvfs).
When I check any file properties it displays the user and group as numeric. Is there a way
to make it get the names ...
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ACL and moving files in Nautilus
When I move files from a private home directory (e.g. /home/jack) to a shared directory (e.g. /home/shared-school) Nautilus copies the file permissions from the original file into the shared directory ...
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Mount remote samba with sftp:// permissions and group membership
If I mount as remote samba (running on Linux) with Nautilus (sftp://) with a username and
password will the permissions work as if I were on the remote system regardless of the local user name and the ...
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How to chmod in Nautilus via keyboard?
I like to use the mouse as little as possible, but I find Nautilus useful enough to use it when browsing for files. If I want to rename a file while in Nautilus I can hit the F2 key; is there a way I ...
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Why won't the floppy mount?
The 1.44Meg floppy won't mount in my Nautilus file browser. When I try to mount it, it says there is no media in the drive. Yet, I can write to the floppy through the terminal using the 'cp' command. ...
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