Questions tagged [nautilus]
Nautilus is the official file manager in Gnome.
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Nautilus won't launch on Ubuntu Gnome 16.04
I know there are other threads about this. I tried them but the offered solutions did not work and I'm not allowed to comment on the thread to ask for clarification, yet.
The only thing I've changed ...
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Making manually mounted LUKS volume visible in Nautilus
In Unity under Ubuntu, when I mounted a volume under /media, then it was shown in Nautilus, as if it was mounted by gvfs.
Now I'm running GNOME 3.20.1, which mounts its drives under /run/media/[user]....
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How can I set up nautilus to use a ssh connection established by an expect script?
In order to automate a ssh connection, I wrote a script using expect, which works just fine. However, I would like to use this script in the nautilus connect to server function. My idea was to include ...
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How to debug slow samba share by Nautilus?
I have Fedora 23 with Gnome 3 and Nautilus 3.18.5-1.fc23. I have troubles with SMB speeds by using Nautilus. It is about 4.4MB/s, while by any other methods (e.g. smbclient from terminal) I got 11MB/s ...
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Can't access to trash?
Whenever I try to enter into Trash Bin in Nautilus when a file is in it, an error message will display: Sorry, could not display all the contents of trash:///: Operation not supported. Neither sudo or ...
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Nautilus not working on sudo
I've got Trisquel 7 GNU/Linux distro, with GNOME 3.8.4.
I'm finding impossible to create a folder in Nautilus, or drag and drop files into the Desktop, out of other options. I find this quite ...
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Cannot paste folder into Nautilus
The CentOS 6 version of Nautilus offered 2 modes for displaying the directory/folder heirarchy:
Graphical format
Text format: as follows /this/is/the/folder/in/question
A great thing about this ...
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Going up a directory in Nautilus' location bar
I am trying to go up a directory in Nautilus' location bar. For example, I start here:
I then give focus to the location bar, type .. and hit enter, but it brings me to the first folder in the ...
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How can I search for files on a Samba share in Linux?
I recently installed Fedora 23 on an old PC for a friend who wanted a basic office machine. Everything works fine, but the feature they really need is file search in a Windows (Samba) shared directory....
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Make Nautilus mount USB so unprivileged user can write to it
I'm using Debian Stretch. I plug in a USB, then open Nautilus (as an unprivileged user). I click mount on the USB and Nautilus mounts it. However, only privileged users can write to it.
Is there ...
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In Nautilus, how do we make sure that the current device used shows up?
I would like to always see the current device at the top of a window. It is in the history at the top, but Nautilus sometimes only show the last fragments in the path - the device is hidden. So, I ...
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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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How to search only current directory in Nautilus (restore old behaviour)
Does anyone know, how can I bring back the old nautilus behaviour?
In old version (Debian <7), when I typed, the nautilus moved to first file that started with that typed phrase.
In new version (...
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Different directory size between GUI and Command Line
I got this weird size problem using Gnome:
the size of Desktop directory is: 541.2 GB
(right click properties)
however when I run this command on a shell I get different size:
du -sh Desktop/
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