Ever wish that you could right-click the Gnome desktop or a folder and open a terminal window? It’s a simple installation away in both Ubuntu and Fedora. I do sorta wonder why this isn’t included in Gnome by default.
Ubuntu:
Open your package manager and locate/install nautilus-open-terminal or alternatively open a terminal prompt and enter the command sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal
Now restart Gnome (log out and back in) or open a terminal and enter ps aux |grep nautilus then locate the PID for nautilus and issue a kill -HUP [pid]
Fedora:
Open a terminal prompt and enter the command su -c ‘yum install nautilus-open-terminal’
Now restart Gnome (log out and back in) or open a terminal and enter ps aux |grep nautilus then locate the PID for nautilus and issue a kill -HUP [pid]
Happy Thanksgiving! Food, football and naps. Who doesn’t love this holiday????
January 24th, 2007 at 11:59 pm
Awesome – that was driving me nuts!
September 20th, 2007 at 9:30 am
Right…
Then it asks me for the root password. How about if I don’t have root access to the machine?
Could it be that I can’t have such a simple functionality if I’m not root? I swear, sometimes, I feel like they are trying into a new-unconfigurable-microsoft-windows
September 20th, 2007 at 10:03 am
Installing software is an administrative task and SHOULD ask you for the root password. Using the software once it’s installed can be done without root. If you don’t have the root pass, you’ll need to ask the machine administrator to install the software for you.
This is intended and is a good thing. It prevents un-authorized users (or worse, malware) from installing any ole’ thing.
I should mention that this is exactly opposite of the default behavior in Windows XP. Out of the box, you’re running XP with administrative privs and that is a big part of the reason so many Windows machines are infested with crapware. Ill informed users install anything/everything, they also tend to double click on anything ending in .exe. This is a great way to get yourself owned.
April 13th, 2008 at 4:40 am
Thanks! I had no idea this package would exist. It saves me of a lot of cd commands