Questions tagged [nautilus]
Nautilus is the official file manager in Gnome.
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How to remove "starred" tab in gnome's nautilus?
I have a lot of network drives and a few bookmarks and I don't like having my file manager maximized, so I prefer an interface that's as clean as possible.
This Starred tab however blocks this for me....
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nautilus not starting ubuntu 18.04
Since a few weeks when I try to start nautilus in Ubuntu 18.04 I get the following message :
nautilus: symbol lookup error: /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/tracker-2.0/libtracker-data.so.0: undefined ...
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smb.conf variable %m doenst work with mount.cifs
I noticed a difference between mount.cifs and gvfs when connection to my samba server.
Entry in smb.conf I like to connect to ...
[backup]
path = /srv/smb/backups/%m
comment = Inkrementelle Backups ...
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how does the "move to trash" or delete option copy files to the trash folder usually?
Here are what i tried :
If a file is deleted , it is copied to Trash/files folder and then it is deleted and its info is stored in the Trash/info in Nautilus.
So i thought if I make the file non ...
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Cannot open folders located on Ubuntu desktop
I have Ubuntu 18.04 LTS installed, using its default file manager Nautlius. Double-clicking any folder located on the desktop does not open the folder. The following folders are affected:
Trash
Home
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Issue giving nautilus special access rights
According to a previous post I made here:
https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/180170/protecting-folder-contents-from-processes, it should be technically possible to implement a system that ...
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What happens if you delete a file while it was moving from one filesystem(ext4) to another(NTFS)?
this has been bugging me since yesterday. I was using GNOME Files (Nautilus) to move a video file from the 'Downloads' folder to an NTFS drive. Now when I cut and pasted the file it instantly appeared ...
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Selecting files in Nautilus 3.26.2
Since 3.26 I cannot drag-select files in Nautilus in folders. The rectangle just does not appear. Currently I can select only successive filen in rows.
However, drag-selection works on desktop.
How ...
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Error while using sudo on the base user
I am having an issue when I try to run
sudo -u user nautilus
in the terminal. It will not run the command as user and ends up running a weird messed up version of nautilus with most root permissions....
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Where does Nautilus file manager mounts ftp/smb connections?
Ubuntu 16.04. I want to know in what point of the file system tree does Nautilus file manager mounts the ftp/smb connections. I thought it could be on the same directory where external storage devices ...
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Escape the input box while pressing Shift in Ubuntu
This disturbs me for a long time. Pressing shift may cause the caret to escape the input box. For instance, if I would like to rename the newly-created folder to underscore _, it frustrates me. ...
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Style-aware icons for folders in Nautilus / Gnome Files
I'm running Gnome 3 on Fedora 25, and many of the xdg-compliant standard user directories (like "Desktop", "Downloads", "Public", etc) have a special icon when viewed in Nautilus (i.e. the Files app). ...
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USB automount fail "Not Authorized"
USB automount worked well for several month but after some updates Nautilus displays .
With these commands it works well :
aubin@Breizh-Atao:~$ sudo fdisk -l
[...]
Disk /dev/sdf: 15.6 GB, ...
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Nautilus broken in Linux, I cannot fix it by `apt-get`
As far as I know Nautilus is default file manager for GNOME.
Recently I updated it (this is what I think). What I did was:
apt-get install nautilus
After few minutes download was complete, after a ...
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How to map one array element which is separated by newlines into a new array with multiple elements
I select 4 files in Nemo in the path /home/myUsername/.local/share/nemo/scripts/Folder with spaces/. Nemo stores the file paths in the environment variable NEMO_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS.
(As you ...
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