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nautilus-open-terminal : terminal quick launch

Tonite it’s getting late but I wanted to post something that is useful for quickly getting to the shell from any GUI location. The package nautilus-open-terminal does just what you might guess it does. It allows you to launch a gnome-terminal from a right-click within nautilus.

You might remember I blogged about something similar long-long ago with nautilus scripts.  This is based on the same idea, but now wrapped in a nice shiny deb package.  From the package description:

Nautilus plugin for opening terminals in arbitrary local paths nautilus-open-terminal is a proof-of-concept Nautilus extension which allows you to open a terminal in arbitrary local folders.

To install this quick-launch to the terminal simply run:

sudo aptitude install nautilus-open-terminal

You may need to restart gnome / nautilus for the change to take effect, but afterwards you’ll have a “open terminal” button on your right-click menu anywhere within nautilus or gnome-desktop area.  Enjoy.

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  1. Abbas Khan
    May 13th, 2007 at 11:17 | #1

    How about making nautilus extensible, sort of like firefox, customization is where all the latest software is headed, look at rhythmbox (or songbird), firefox, etc. We need to bring this to nautilus.

    This would allow for a whole new world of enhancements to nautilus.

    • Sean
      September 3rd, 2009 at 08:30 | #2

      @Abbas Khan: Nautilus is extensible. A developer might have to write some C++, or whatever it's coded in, so in order to to extend it. I guess that extensibility, by nature, kind of goes along with the whole free/open source thing, friend ….

  2. May 13th, 2007 at 11:40 | #3

    I like this plugin too! It’s usually the first thing I install on Ubuntu :)

  3. May 13th, 2007 at 15:50 | #4

    Many thanks for this! It’s what is sorely needed for me too!

    Cheers once again for helping to make our life easier :)

  4. Weeber
    May 13th, 2007 at 19:41 | #5

    I use nautilus scripts for all those things, it’s very useful.

  5. heroin
    August 4th, 2007 at 07:44 | #6

    u dont need to restart gnome, just run
    ‘killall nautilus’ it sounds horrible, but just restarts nautilus

  6. October 22nd, 2007 at 08:54 | #7

    Cool but ..
    isn’t there a quick terminal in ubuntu, that launch a command, unbind it and kills itself ?

    With this plugin, I have several terminals launched and I can’t kill them until the application I’ve launched it them are done.

    • Gyppo
      December 20th, 2009 at 14:08 | #8

      Alt-F2

  7. sanghamitra
    July 29th, 2008 at 08:18 | #9

    This doesnt work in the Trash folder

  8. Muhammad Basit
    April 10th, 2009 at 05:26 | #10

    how i can use terninal to compile java files on ubuntu. pls reply soon i am a new user of ubuntu

  9. April 28th, 2009 at 04:18 | #11

    how to send to my document shortcut windows like?
    is ther any hack?

  10. July 18th, 2009 at 17:25 | #12

    Practical and useful. Thank you! Works great.

  11. August 15th, 2009 at 11:41 | #13

    Muhammad Basit : Ask on the Ubuntu forums, you'll get loads of help there. Have you searched the forums yet?

  12. September 6th, 2009 at 03:37 | #14

    Thanks! Amazing – it just works – saved lots of time.

  13. michael
    December 4th, 2009 at 03:45 | #15

    Thanks! This comes pre-installed in OpenSUSE, which I tried out briefly before returning to Ubuntu…

  14. Frederik
    January 17th, 2010 at 18:15 | #16

    @sanghamitra
    because the trash folder is -not- a local path.

  15. August 4th, 2010 at 20:55 | #17

    f12… man i love you lol

  16. August 25th, 2010 at 09:38 | #18

    Excellent! I had something like this in KDE 3.x and was missing it after switching to Ubuntu (and Gnome).

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