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GNOME Files (formerly Nautilus) is the official file manager in GNOME.

GNOME Files, formerly known as Nautilus, is the official file manager in the GNOME desktop environment.

The MATE fork of Nautilus is Caja.

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How to COMPLETELY turn off system beep sounds forever for good for real

I use Nautilus to explore my files. I use a Debian-based OS with KDE Plasma 5. I use the keyboard a lot. When I press the key up when navigating files, if I'm already at the extremity of the list of files, Nautilus sends a big system beep which I…
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Show address bar w. full path in Nautilus instead of breadcrumbs bar

Unfortunately, Gnome's nautilus address bar is not showing the full path in its top bar. How can I change this behavior? I'm looking for a solution to display a editable text field instead, like in the good old days.
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How to change the titlebar height in standard GTK apps and those with headerbars/CSDs on Gnome 3.20

In Gnome 3.18, it was possible to change the titlebar height of all windows by changing the css in ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css as per Reduce title bar height in gnome 3 / gtk+ 3. .header-bar.default-decoration { padding-top: 0px; …
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Gnome, nautilus copy files to USB stops at 100% or near

I had similar issues before but i don't remember how i solved it. When i try to copy something to USB stick, with FAT, it stops near the end, sometimes at 100%. And of course, when i transfer the memory stick somewhere else, it doesn't contain…
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How to show the tree view in left pane of Nautilus?

My question is similar to this one, however the answers provided are not sufficient. I'm a linux occasional user / learner, not having much background to understand what to do reading between the lines. I've Ubuntu and Nautilus, in a mode that…
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Mouse shortcut to copy the path to a file in the Gnome file manager

Is there a Linux equivalent of the Windows Shift+Right-click sequence? I use this a lot on files and directories to get the 'hidden' "Copy as path" option in the pop-up menu. It saves a lot of typing (and typos) when using the command line. I'm…
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Set standard file browser for "open containing folder"

Since I installed EasyTag on my Arch Linux several other programs use EasyTag instead of Nautilus as filebrowser. For example, Firefox starts EasyTag if I click on "open containing folder". Where can I set Nautilus as my "standard file browser"?
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Closing all Nautilus windows from terminal

How can I close all opened Nautilus (explorer) windows from the terminal?
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How to print Metadata of a file with the help of command-line?

I am using Trisquel 7.0 with Nautilus 3.10.1 installed. Whenever I display properties of a file, I've one file-specific tab like: Image,Audio/Video,Document etc. which displays special information about it. Example for a Image: Example for a PDF…
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How to remove duplicate entries in 'Open With' Nautilus dialogue?

Would be nice to be shown the magic button that will help me remove this eyesore: It's Nautilus 2.30 on Debian (and has been there in previous versions as far as I can remember).
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How to get rid of desktop environment and use a window manager only?

I have been using xterm for all my work. I realized that the features that desktop environments like GNOME has to provide are not of much use to me. Now, is it possible that I remove GNOME and KDE altogether and use some window manager only in run…
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How can a Bash script tell how it was run?

I have a Bash script I was trying to make to help me run a rather complex command with small changes that it would ask me about through echo and read. I have found solutions to force it to run a terminal to execute the command, but I'm not…
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nautilus: open-with but don't change default

In recent versions of Gnome (Gnome 3.30 on Fedora 29, if it matters), it seems that when using right-click "Open With Other Application" from Nautilus, the option in the Select Application dialog to set the selected application as default has been…
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Can I access Nautilus's bookmarks in terminal?

I have made a some bookmarks in Nautilus, i.e. shortcut links to some directories. I would like to cd to a directory which has been bookmarked in Nautilus. I was wondering if that is possible?
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Changing file associations in GNOME?

This blog post talks about how to change the default application to handle a file type in Nautilus for individual file types (right-click on the file, "open with", and select the new default application), but is there a way to list all current…
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