Questions tagged [nautilus]
Nautilus is the official file manager in Gnome.
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How can I cause a script to be run when a file is deleted?
I have an application which saves its data in the form of XML 'jobfiles' which contain lists of much larger .tif files that contain the actual raw data that the application generates. Typically, a ...
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How to fix Nautilus in Ubuntu 14.04 to show 1MB = Division by 1024 kb?
How to force Nautilus in Ubuntu 14.04 to show correct size of file(s) in Megabytes, which is divided by 1024 kilobytes, instead of 1000 which it does at present?
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gnome3 add new file types for nautilus (instead of text file)
on my Fedora 20 system many file types are grouped under the type "text", for example *.ini, *.txt and so on.
So if I sort the contents of a folder by type, it groups them all together, which is not ...
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Change default NTFS drivers ntfs-3g to paragon NTFS drivers(set as default)
I am using ubuntu 12.04 LTS-32 BIT, kernel 3.2.0.52
Default NTFS-3G drivers are slow in R/W mode and i installed Paragon NTFS drivers for Linux. They worked like charm and i got read write speed = ...
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Linux WindowMaker/Docky padding issue
I've recently made the switch to a custom Ubuntu installation (replacing Unity with WindowMaker). Everything works fine, except I have issues handling the windows while Docky + compositing (I already ...
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How Can You Open a Folder with an application in Ubuntu 13.04
How Can You Open a Folder with an application from Nautilus in Ubuntu 13.04?
See this bug. Is there some type of plugin I can use to get around this?
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Missed scrolls in Gedit and nautilus
After I type anything in GEdit, it ignores the next 6 ticks of my scrollwheel in a direction. If I scroll 6 times up, it will then let me scroll up, but not down. To scroll down I will have to scroll ...
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Change mouse right button events type to onmouseclick
I have noticed that in Fedora almost all events related to mouse right button are of onmousepress type, e.g. as soon as I press the mouse right button (but not released yet), it shows the context menu ...
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ubuntu dereference links when copying in nautilus
I recently collected a bunch of files I wished to share as a folder of links, and then dropped that in my Dropbox, these then appeared as symlinks to the other people using the folder and were quite ...
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SSH login through nautilus fails
I'm using Linux Mint Maya. I'm trying to SSH to a remote server.
I can successfully SSH to the server through the command line. But when I attempt to SSH through Nautilus (using the "Connect to ...
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Launch script after SFTP disconnect
I'm currently using Caja (basically the same as Nautilus) to connect using SSH to my server and work with files. What I'm looking for is a way to launch a simple script when I disconnect - I can ...
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How to open files in new window?
I know that there's an OSX-only setting for that:
"open_files_in_new_window": true
But how do I achieve that in Linux?
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Nautilus reacts slowly, information about opened directory disappears
I use the fallback mode in GNOME 3 and Nautilus.
When you select Menu - Location - Home (or any other directory), Nautilus opens this directory. I can move between directories without problems.
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Prevent gnome from automatically mounting partition when clicked in nautilus
I have two partitions on a hard drive in my machine that are formatted as ntfs, but must under no circumstance be mounted by my Ubuntu installation (unless I do some preparation first). However ...
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mount ftp host in linux file system
I tried curlftpfs and can copy files etc., but opening media files in totem or vlc fails with read errors. Any suggestions?
I'd try to use gvfs-mount instead, but don't know how to pass an option ...
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