Questions tagged [nautilus]
GNOME Files (formerly Nautilus) is the official file manager in GNOME.
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Confusing tab UI in Nautilus/Files Manager
The currently displayed window forms a single and continuous visual/color space with inactive tabs. Like in the example above, the user sees the content/folders of the sys directory, whereas the UI ...
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Nautilus: End program after closing window
When I run nautilus from terminal it is still running after closing window.
I only get this message after start:
** Message: 00:10:10.307: Connecting to org.freedesktop.Tracker3.Miner.Files
How can I ...
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Open terminal in directory open in file explorer
In GNOME, I wish to setup a shortcut to open terminal in presently viewing directory in the gui file explorer. The nautilus gui is opened from terminal by the command xdg-open ., but I'm not sure if I ...
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Nautilus / Gnome Files says there is no app installed for any file type unless launched from console
As the title says. I can't open any file using nautilus.
When I click on Select App on the dialog above it shows some irrelevant applications instead of Gnome Text Editor, for example. (Of course I ...
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ISO Media Videos thumbnails not showing in pop_os 22.04 LTS
all videos that are ISO media doesn't have thumbnails.
I have tried the solutions here, but it didn't work (EDIT: im a noob, so its possibly those didnt work because im using pop_os distro, and those ...
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What free tool does Nautilus use to extract RAR files?
I have noticed that Nautilus (GNOME Files) can extract some RAR files that cannot be extracted using free packages like unrar-free or file-roller via CLI, nor using GUI tools like Engrampa or ...
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Gnome Files (Nautilus) cannot retrieve SMB share list of a server when double-clicking
I am running Gnome Arch. In Files, Other Locations, Networks, there is Server. If I double-click it, Files says "Unable to access location." If I type the server name smb://server and then ...
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Different name on terminal than on file manager
I work on RedHat Linux and, when I read files from terminal using ll or ls -l on my desktop, I see different names from what I have in my file manager. Say the file name on desktop is John, but I see ...
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How exactly does Nautilus sort files by name?
I noticed that Nautilus(GNOME Files) does not fully sort alphabetically.
$ touch 1
$ touch 2
$ touch 3
$ touch '!2'
Then the files are displayed in the following order: !2 1 2 3. This is fully ...
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Why can't I open Tar.gz archive with colons or commas in filename?
I have a 4Gb tar.gz archive downloaded from a Linux server machine. The machine we are on is a Zorin 16 OS machine. I am using both Nautilus / Archiver (file-roller I think it is) / Xarchiver
We have ...
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Any operations with file system takes forever
I'm using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Unexpectedly for me all operations with the file system stopped working. I tried ls /, df and nautilus - all of this command takes forever to execute. What happened to my ...
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"Connect to Server" button stays disabled in Files on Pop!_OS, despite valid server address
I am trying to connect to my NAS server from my Pop!_OS system using the "Connect to Server" feature in the Files (Nautilus) application. I navigate to "Other Locations" and enter ...
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Setting default file manager and locating a file with the default file manager
Please don't mark it as duplicated before reading my question. I know that there already are those questions, but the existing answer did not work as expected, and that is why I am asking this ...
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How to recover files accidentally deleted from LUKS encrypted device?
I just "Permanently Deleted" two pictures from a folder in my disk that is encrypted with LUKS. I ran sudo testdisk and navigated through the menus. It did identify the two now missing files ...
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Which mountpoint paths will automatically show up in file browser under devices?
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If I plug an external USB drive in, it will get mounted under /media/$USER/<device-id> and my file browsers will automatically list the mountpoint under devices.
The same will ...
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