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This small tutorial, i have created from a lot of reading of references and personal experiments, since I am relatively new to Linux (especially Ubuntu where it is the default file manager), I recommend all newbies like me to read and see and explore the power of nautilus.
Nautilus is a powerful file manager and in addition to that it is a lot more, it can perform lot of other tasks as well.
Well when you open nautilus you won't find any place (or URI) to enter the location you want to browse, so you can get it by pressing {Ctrl} + {L}. This will provide you with lots of powerful tools, some of which I have explored, I have given below
1. Nautilus as a CD/DVD burner : open URI and Enter the “burn:///” and it drops you to a front-end for burning CDs and DVDs, simply drag and drop the files and folders, organise them and click on burn button and here you go. Your files are written in the optical media.
2. Nautilus emulating Windows Explorer : Well, I have recently shifted from Windows, so I still miss the “My Computer” Explorer look. Try entering “computer:///” in URI and you get the look of Windows Explorer with drives mounted as separate disk along with your CD/DVD drives and other devices like pen drive listed there; Enjoy browsing like windows.
3. Nautilus as FTP browser: Enter the following info in URI and there you go to browse ftp location: “ftp://username:password@location.domain”. The same thing can be achieved by File Menu -> Connect to server... .
4. Nautilus as network browser: Enter “network:///” and you can browse the Windows or linux network computers and shared drives through it .
5. Nautilus as theme manager: Enter “themes:///” and you can view the thumbnail of all the themes available in your pc. Well, I was able to apply the theme in one of my friends pc by simply double clicking on the theme but it didn't work for me. I can't explain why. Try it in your pc and you may be able to do it. Note: use command
if you plan to apply the theme directly by double clicking the theme.
6. View Hidden files and folders : Linux prevents viewing of lots of configuration and settings files and folders to be viewed, of course you can view them in console by command “ls -a” but you can also view them in Nautilus by pressing the key {Ctrl} + {H}. Pressing the same keys again will hide them.
7. Create Symbolic Link / Short-cut quickly : Just hold {Ctrl} + {Shift} button and drag the selected file to desired location say desktop and you have a symbolic link made instantaneously.
8. Use scripts to work faster: Lot of scripts are available at this place for downloading and installing. You can install them by copying these scripts in “/home/username/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/” directory and get lot of available script in context menu.
Hope this small compilation of info will be useful for you. I have done all these things in Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. I think it should work in other distros as well.
Nautilus is a powerful file manager and in addition to that it is a lot more, it can perform lot of other tasks as well.
Well when you open nautilus you won't find any place (or URI) to enter the location you want to browse, so you can get it by pressing {Ctrl} + {L}. This will provide you with lots of powerful tools, some of which I have explored, I have given below
1. Nautilus as a CD/DVD burner : open URI and Enter the “burn:///” and it drops you to a front-end for burning CDs and DVDs, simply drag and drop the files and folders, organise them and click on burn button and here you go. Your files are written in the optical media.
2. Nautilus emulating Windows Explorer : Well, I have recently shifted from Windows, so I still miss the “My Computer” Explorer look. Try entering “computer:///” in URI and you get the look of Windows Explorer with drives mounted as separate disk along with your CD/DVD drives and other devices like pen drive listed there; Enjoy browsing like windows.
3. Nautilus as FTP browser: Enter the following info in URI and there you go to browse ftp location: “ftp://username:password@location.domain”. The same thing can be achieved by File Menu -> Connect to server... .
4. Nautilus as network browser: Enter “network:///” and you can browse the Windows or linux network computers and shared drives through it .
5. Nautilus as theme manager: Enter “themes:///” and you can view the thumbnail of all the themes available in your pc. Well, I was able to apply the theme in one of my friends pc by simply double clicking on the theme but it didn't work for me. I can't explain why. Try it in your pc and you may be able to do it. Note: use command
Code:
gksudo nautilus6. View Hidden files and folders : Linux prevents viewing of lots of configuration and settings files and folders to be viewed, of course you can view them in console by command “ls -a” but you can also view them in Nautilus by pressing the key {Ctrl} + {H}. Pressing the same keys again will hide them.
7. Create Symbolic Link / Short-cut quickly : Just hold {Ctrl} + {Shift} button and drag the selected file to desired location say desktop and you have a symbolic link made instantaneously.
8. Use scripts to work faster: Lot of scripts are available at this place for downloading and installing. You can install them by copying these scripts in “/home/username/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/” directory and get lot of available script in context menu.
Hope this small compilation of info will be useful for you. I have done all these things in Ubuntu 6.06 LTS. I think it should work in other distros as well.
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