Questions tagged [nautilus]
Nautilus is the official file manager in Gnome.
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File 'pagefile.sys' in CIFS mount of '//windowshost/C$' makes Nautilus give up in disgust
So, I'm running a Fedora 13 VM in VirtualBox under Windows Server 2008. I need to have access to the host drives from inside the VM, so I mount them. I use the C$ and D$ default shares. Here's the ...
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Gnome file manager Nautilus: How to disable front end search window feature
I am using Nautilus 3.4.1 on Ubuntu 12.04.
What I normally like to do, if I am searching for all items in a
directory that have names that start with say the letter 'A' is the
following:
Suppose I ...
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Nautilus / Gnome asks for account to list available SMB shares
I'm currently configuring 3 Samba shares that are all "browseable = yes". Everything works well when I connect on each individual share like :
\\server\share (Windows) OR smb://server/share ...
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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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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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Disable auto-open for a specific device
When I insert a flash drive, always is opened a new window of nautilus showing the content of the flash drive. Is there a form to deactivate "auto-open" option for a determinate USB device?
Thanks!
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How does Nautilus mount a partition as normal user?
I can only run the mount command with superuser privileges.
How can Nautilus do the same with normal access? How do things work inside?
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How to customize Seahorse plugin behavior in Nautilus?
I use Fedora 14. The seahorse-plugins package adds a nifty context menu option in Nautilus that allows you to encrypt/decrypt files easily with your GPG key. But is it possible to customize its ...
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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 can I change Nautilus's delete behavior?
I want to make it so that nautilus requires me to press a key combination to delete files - so that I do not accidentally delete files on a network share with no confirmation again.
Ideally I would ...
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Nautilus "Not authorized to perform operation" with xorg on arch
When I try to mount a disk with nautilus on Arch by clicking on a drive under "Other Locations", I get the following error: "Unable to access location - Not authorized to perform ...
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Nautilus broken in ubuntu 22.04
when i updated ubuntu 22.04 file manager nautilus uninstalled
i tryed to use:
apt-get update && apt-get upgrade --fix-missing but it didnt help
when i trying install:
~$ sudo apt install ...
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Gnome3 File Manager Not Working (Debian / Kali)
2 days ago after updating linux, gnome file manager does not open. When I want to open anything under the "places" option at the top (home-documents-download-desktop ...), it tries to open it with "...
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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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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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