Questions tagged [nautilus]
Nautilus is the official file manager in Gnome.
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Nautilus shortcut for creating empty files
Is there any keyboard shortcut in Nautilus for creating new empty files. Like Shift-Ctrl-N does for folders. If there isn't, is there a way to add this custom shortcut somehow?
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Modify network shares, but not delete?
How can I make it so that I can modify the files on a network share (client: linux, ubuntu 9.10, network share server: windows 7), or create new files on it, but not delete? Or at least make it so ...
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Extract option missing from Files (Nautilus) after upgrade/conversion to AlmaLinux
I recently upgraded and converted my server from Centos 7 to AlmaLinux 8 via leapp, and after upgrading, I noticed that in the default Gnome3 file manager (nautilus), under Centos 7 I could right lick ...
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Nautilus does 't open in Debian 10
The command nautilus does't show any window and does't return.
There is no error message.
I tried apt purge nautilus && apt install nautilus and reboot without any success.
I am using Debian ...
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File manager sidebar shortcuts synchronization
I have been comparing thunar and nautilus to decide if I wanted to switch file manager. Both have a sidebar on the left with shortcuts to various folders (home, documents, downloads...), to which you ...
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Setting NOEXEC for all removable drives
I am using fedora 30 and I would like to prevent removable drives from being mounted with executable permissions. From my research I have found that Nautilus handles the auto-mounting(using Gnome on ...
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Nautilus default .desktop file not right
I need some help with the GNOME Nautilus file manager.
The default .desktop file situated is /usr/share/applications has been deleted and replaced with my own one (no back up).
I was hoping to ...
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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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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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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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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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Centos 6.6 Nautilus Context Menu has no Delete Function
For experimentation I installed Centos 6.6 in VM.
After install there is no delete function in nautilus file manager context menu. Is that expected behavior?
Thanks,
Gert
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I can't press right click and icons disappeared on RHEL6
I'm only left with the desktop. When I right click, I get no response. Another problem is that there's no menus or icons.
When I try to open Nautilus it doesn't start.
When I tried to open it from ...
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Debian, doesn't work the option “Open in the terminal”
Opening nautilus and using the usual right-click and then clicking on "open the terminal" nothing happens. This has happened after (I think) the daily update of Debian or the installation of ...
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How can a Nautilus script be run for an empty directory?
I have a Nautilus script that can create multiple directories at once using mkdir with the option -p. The script is effectively the following:
directoryStructure="$(zenity --title "make directory ...
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