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How do I set up preferred applications in Nautilus by file extension, rather than by mime type?
I regularly work with a few sorts of plain text files, some of these are code files that I want to open in a programmer's text editor, others are large (gigabyte or more) data files that I only want ...
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How to automatically mount a file containing an encrypted file system, when a user login?
The file can be mounted manually via 'cryptsetup luksOpen' and 'mount /dev/mapper' but I would like it to be mounted automatically while logging in and by showing a GUI dialog for the passphrase just ...
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Make nautilus not show desktop via SSH
Most of the days I am connected to my home server (running Debian) via a ssh shell from my laptop. Most of the tasks are done in the prompt, but sometimes I like to have drag-and-drop-file managers, ...
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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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How to get Gnome to open CD automatically
Having switched from Ubuntu back to Debian (a), the one thing I miss is the auto-opening on CDs when inserted into the CD drive.
There's nothing immediately obvious under System | Preferences to do ...
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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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Is there a way to make nautilus display the “recently used” files and directories?
Is there a way to make nautilus display the "recently used" files and directories, just like the "open file" dialog does?
Just to make my question clearer, here are two screenshots:
The GTK open ...
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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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Change Ubuntu 11 scrollbars back to the old style
The question:
I've installed Ubuntu 11.04 and the new scrollbars in Nautilus, GEdit, etc. are driving me insane! How do I go back to the old (Ubuntu 10.10 and earlier) scrollbars?
The explanation ...
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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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Hiding files of a certain extension (.pyc) from Nautilus
I would like to hide every .pyc file from Nautilus.
I use Ubuntu 10.04.
What could I do?
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What is the workflow for automount in Gnome 2.30?
I have a ASUS laptop with Fedora 13. My problem is that any USB storage I connect does not automount. I have other computer with Fedora 13 which does not have the problem.
I have not be able to find ...
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Configuring mount options for Gnome/Nautilus Auto mounter
I use Fedora 13 with Gnome. I have two NTFS partions that are listed by Nautilus in the pane on the left hand side (in browser mode). When I click on any one of those drives, it prompts me for the ...
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Is Nautilus part of GNOME? Or is GNOME just using Nautilus among other environments?
According to Wikipedia, Nautilus was originally written by Eazel inc. However, it seems like a major part of GNOME today. Nautilus's website is apparently live.gnome.org/nautilus. So it looks like ...
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Nautilus crashes when dragging files in Ubuntu 10.04
I'm running Gnome in Ubuntu 10.04. Nautilus used to work fine on my system but now it's doing something strange. Whenever I drag a file out of the Nautilus window to move it somewhere else, as soon as ...
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How to add new entry in context menu in Gnome?
There is a very useful entry in gnome's context menu when clicking on any file:
Open with gedit (the first entry in the context menu).
I'd like to add similar one, for my second favourite editor.
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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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Ubuntu's gui “Open With” command is not memorizing the application
In Ubuntu, when we right-click a icon and use "open with", there is an option to remember that application for that file's type.
For some reason, my system is no more memorizing the application (I ...
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How to open some location in new tab in existing nautilus window? (from console)
I want to type something in console that will open some location (on example home dir) in already opened nautilus window. Is it possible?
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Why won't the floppy mount?
The 1.44Meg floppy won't mount in my Nautilus file browser. When I try to mount it, it says there is no media in the drive. Yet, I can write to the floppy through the terminal using the 'cp' command. ...
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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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Why Gnome depends on so much stuff and how to uninstall it?
I'm new to Linux so still learning it. I have installed Debian/GNU 5.0 on my VMware Server with Gnome 2.28 as desktop environment.
So I'm wondering why so much variable stuff like CD recorders, image ...
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Open ftp:// links with nautilus
This question is exactly what is says on the tin.
At the moment, with default settings, all ftp:// links (even bookmarks in the Places menu created with "Connect to Server", which opens in Nautilus ...
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Preventing auto-restart of nautilus on gnome 2.28
Cheers!
I dislike disobedience from my system. When I want to explicitly kill Nautilus with kill or killall, I am no longer able to do so. Previously I could disable this erroneous behavior (which ...
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Creating Files/Folders With Nautilus in List View
When Nautilus is in list view (more like treeview) when I right-click on a Folder, there's no option to create a File/Folder. When I right-click on a file within the folder, it also gives no option to ...
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Linking to a network file using Nautilus
We have a small intranet with a few Samba shares.. I can browse them easily with Nautilus (on Ubuntu Jaunty), but whenever I try to make a link to a shared file (to the desktop for example) the ...
