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Nine Things You Should Know About Nautilus

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the use-your-system-better dept.

lessthan0 writes "The Nautilus program in GNOME is not only the default file manager, it creates and manages the desktop. While it looks simple on the surface, there is a lot of hidden power under the shell. The latest version of Nautilus is 2.14.0, which is included in Fedora Core 5. article covers a few non-obvious things about how Nautilus works."

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  1. As a long-time GNOME user... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 4, Funny

    The only thing I've ever bothered to learn about Nautilus is how to disable it after every upgrade.

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    1. Re:As a long-time GNOME user... by stevewahl · · Score: 2, Funny
      The only thing I've ever bothered to learn about Nautilus is how to disable it after every upgrade.

      Exactly!

      What are these file explorer / desktop things for, anyway? A shell window with cd, ls, tab completion, and wildcards usually gets me where I want to be faster, and when I want to look at the file tree in a more "browsing" fashion, I use dirmode in EMACS.

      Now I'll go back and RTFA, but if anyone who uses the tools I mention switches to using Nautilus (or similar) for some particular task they find easier there, I'd love to hear about it. Seriously, if I'm missing something, I want to know.
    2. Re: As a long-time GNOME user... by Black+Parrot · · Score: 2, Funny

      > I'd like to see you select the correct jpeg out of a directory of 500 without an icon preview.

      There are plenty of applications you can use to browse your pjorn. You don't need something that poops all over your desktop.

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  2. Re:Kan it run in KDE by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Don't you mean "insensitive klod"?

  3. Trash Dot by digitaldc · · Score: 4, Funny

    One: Adding Delete
    The ~/.Trash directory is where files are moved if you delete local files. On mounted volumes, Nautilus will create a hidden .Trash-uid directory if you move a file to the trash, as long as you have the file permissions.

    So will /. sue for copyright infringement? Or is it DRM? Or is it just some Trashy slander?

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  4. Re:9 things? by Just+Some+Guy · · Score: 2, Funny
    def greetings(x): if x == "friend": print "Howdy" elif x == "enemy": print "Dye motherfucker" else: print "stfu bitch"

    Come on, fellow Slashdotter. That's:

    def greetings(x): return {'friend': 'Howdy', 'enemy': 'Dye [sic]'}.get(x, 'g0 4w4y, l4m0r')

    Remember, pardner: anonymous dicts are your friends. And way more 1337.

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  5. Man... by geekoid · · Score: 2, Funny

    I was hoping for a Jules Verne post.

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