JackeL Posted March 30, 2008 Share Posted March 30, 2008 (edited) i thought i'd share a little tip that i came across a while back. i'm sure most of you guys are probably already aware of these...but there may be a few like myself who were not. it adds a couple of extensions to the nautilus context menu (right click). one is called "nautilus-gksu" and will allow you to right click on a file and have the option to "open as administrator", which will open the file with gedit. the other extension is "nautilus-open-terminal". right click anywhere in nautilus and have the option to "open in terminal". its nice to have the option just a right click away while in nautilus, instead of having to open a basic terminal and change directories to get where you want to go. i am a really crappy typist (plain to see if you ever read any of my posts, lol)...so these 2 extensions save me a lot of time. in ubuntu: sudo apt-get install nautilus-gksu nautilus-open-terminal heres a few more additions that are kinda neat.... nautilus-wallpaper: adds to the right-click menu an option to "set as wallpaper"....just right-click on an image to set. no more going to system > preferences > appearance > background > add.... or right-clicking the desktop > change desktop background > add > browse to the image and open it just to make it your wallpaper. in ubuntu: sudo apt-get install nautilus-wallpaper nautilus-image-converter: adds to the right-click menu options to "resize images" and "rotate images". a little quicker then opening the gimp or similar just to do a quick resize of an image. will do multiple images at once also. in ubuntu: sudo apt-get install nautilus-image-converter or just install them all in one shot: sudo apt-get install nautilus-gksu nautilus-open-terminal nautilus-wallpaper nautilus-image-converter logout (alt-ctrl-backspace), then back in again for the changes to take affect. if that does not do it....run "killall nautilus" (no "" marks) in a terminal or just reboot. hope someone finds these as useful as i did. Edited May 11, 2010 by JackeL Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carlton Posted April 22, 2008 Share Posted April 22, 2008 Nice one JackeL. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duanester Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 jackel, i get this far core-duo@core-duo-desk:~$ sudo apt-get install nautilus-gksu nautilus-open-terminal [sudo] password for core-duo: Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libxalan110 libxerces27 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. The following NEW packages will be installed: nautilus-gksu nautilus-open-terminal 0 upgraded, 2 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. Need to get 29.8kB of archives. After this operation, 729kB of additional disk space will be used. Get:1 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy-updates/main nautilus-gksu 2.0.0-5ubuntu3 [5972B] Get:2 http://us.archive.ubuntu.com hardy/universe nautilus-open-terminal 0.8-1ubuntu3 [23.9kB] Fetched 29.8kB in 0s (43.7kB/s) Selecting previously deselected package nautilus-gksu. (Reading database ... 164202 files and directories currently installed.) Unpacking nautilus-gksu (from .../nautilus-gksu_2.0.0-5ubuntu3_amd64.deb) ... Selecting previously deselected package nautilus-open-terminal. Unpacking nautilus-open-terminal (from .../nautilus-open-terminal_0.8-1ubuntu3_amd64.deb) ... Setting up nautilus-gksu (2.0.0-5ubuntu3) ... Setting up nautilus-open-terminal (0.8-1ubuntu3) ... core-duo@core-duo-desk:~$ sudo apt-get install nautilus-gksu Reading package lists... Done Building dependency tree Reading state information... Done nautilus-gksu is already the newest version. The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required: libxalan110 libxerces27 Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them. 0 upgraded, 0 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded. core-duo@core-duo-desk:~$ sudo cp /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-1.0/libnautilus-gksu.so /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-2.0/ cp: cannot stat `/usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-1.0/libnautilus-gksu.so': No such file or directory core-duo@core-duo-desk:~$ what should i do, thanks Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duanester Posted June 11, 2008 Share Posted June 11, 2008 its there thanks jackel btw, what would be a good purpose for this feature ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
duanester Posted June 12, 2008 Share Posted June 12, 2008 i love it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
numerounoyankeefan Posted March 3, 2012 Share Posted March 3, 2012 (edited) *for ubuntu 11.10 users (and maybe others)....don't know if this affects anyone else, but for me, the nautilus-gksu extension has not been working for the last couple of releases (since unity maybe?). recently came across a fix for it: just run the following in a terminal: sudo cp /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-2.0/libnautilus-gksu.so /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/ then log-out and back in again. should work as originally posted after that. and hey thanks to banned member JackeL for posting this tip! Edited March 3, 2012 by numerounoyankeefan Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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