Friday 14 February 2020

Nautilus tweaks

Nautilus is quite limited out of the box and lacks some useful features:

1) To pin a folder to the left panel (bookmarks) just go to the folder and press Ctrl+D.


2) Nautilus path as tiles with folder names but it is not possible to edit the path or copy. If you press Ctrl+L Nautilus will switch to classical path representation, you can edit it, or copy with Ctrl+A; Ctrl+C;
copy/edit path

3) It is common to do something in the terminal in the current folder. In KDE Dolphin one can easily either open a new terminal window with F4 or open a terminal in the bottom of the Dolphin window with Shift+F4. Unfortunately there is no such feature in Nautilus. Fortunately it can be added.

4)Very often I want to create an empty document in the current folder but there is no such option. It can be easily fixed by creating a template for an empty document via
touch ~/Templates/"Untitled Document"
Now this option appears in the context menu at right click.
It can also be done with a keyboard shortcut.

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