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

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In Nautilus (Debian 12, en_US.UTF-8, GNOME Files 43.2), the following eight files are sorted in the following order: - -1 -- --1 1 --a -a a To answer the question (Why does Nautilus sort these files ...
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I am setting up a new computer in my home. Both my old computer and my new one run various flavors of Ubuntu Linux, the new one Kubuntu 24.04.1, the old one Ubuntu 24.04.1. There are certain files on ...
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I am working on creating a way to right click on an .eml file, right click, and have python pull two pieces of data from it and paste them into a new xlsx file and auto open the xlsx file. I would try ...
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When using Ubuntu 24.04 or Debian 11 and I plug in my iPhone 8 with a usb cable the Gnome Files app (and MATE's equivalent) show both iPhone's DCIM volume as well as the iPhone's documents (shared app ...
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I am using Debian Testing. After an update, Nautilus doesn't start anymore. Launching it from terminal gives this: $ nautilus ** Message: 16:38:50.596: Connecting to org.freedesktop.Tracker3.Miner....
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In GNOME, I wish to setup a shortcut to open terminal in presently viewing directory in the gui file explorer. The nautilus gui is opened from terminal by the command xdg-open ., but I'm not sure if I ...
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I have noticed that Nautilus (GNOME Files) can extract some RAR files that cannot be extracted using free packages like unrar-free or file-roller via CLI, nor using GUI tools like Engrampa or ...
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I noticed that Nautilus(GNOME Files) does not fully sort alphabetically. $ touch 1 $ touch 2 $ touch 3 $ touch '!2' Then the files are displayed in the following order: !2 1 2 3. This is fully ...
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I'm using Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. Unexpectedly for me all operations with the file system stopped working. I tried ls /, df and nautilus - all of this command takes forever to execute. What happened to my ...
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Please don't mark it as duplicated before reading my question. I know that there already are those questions, but the existing answer did not work as expected, and that is why I am asking this ...
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Some examples: If I plug an external USB drive in, it will get mounted under /media/$USER/<device-id> and my file browsers will automatically list the mountpoint under devices. The same will ...
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I have bash script below to AI upscale a bunch of images and then re encode them to reduce file size, it works fine if I call the script from the terminal but not when I select it in nautilus as a ...
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I'm on Debian. I have a file called Sóanr.jpg. According to https://emojidissector.com/, this is made of the following code points: S 0053 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER S o 006F LATIN SMALL LETTER O ...
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I need some help understanding how the thumbnail process works with Gnome Nautilus. I am running Gnome 43.2 with nautilus 43.1 on Manjaro Linux. Other computers show file thumbnails just fine on my ...
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I have little background in programming and need to create a batch to extract the audio of multiple video files. Execution is done through the context menu in Nautilus/Gnome Files, stored in Nautilus' ...
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How do I get apps inside folders to display correctly in nautilus? The apps show as Desktop Configuration Files and have no icon, also, when double-clicked, they open up with the text editor. This is ...
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I'm new to Ubuntu. I installed Ubuntu on my PC which has SSD and HDD. I followed the guide to partition HDD properly and it has been mounting without errors so far. However, I can't write anything in ...
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I'm trying to learn (with no programming background) to create some custom bash scripts for converting selected files from Nautilus, but I hit an issue I can't understand. For reference, this is a ...
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Using Wayland with Gnome 42 (default of this distribution), when icons are dragged across nemo-desktop and then released, they are not moved to the new position, always returning to the top left of ...
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GNOME Files (Nautilus) fails to generate thumbnails on an up-to-date Guix system, which is a known outstanding issue. Small empty files just go to ~/.cache/thumbnails/fail/gnome-thumbnail-factory. ...
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Is it possible to add Meld in the contextual menu to easily compare 2 files ? On Windows, I can do that with Beyond Compare, would it be possible to do the same in Nautilus ? Thank you
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Recently, I started using the "Notes" that one can assign to files. They can be found by right-clicking on the file -> Properties -> tab "Notes". See the following image: I ...
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On my Pop!_OS machine (Ubuntu derivative) I sometimes use the full-screen mode in browsers to focus more using the F11 key. Now, running macOS as a VM via sosumi, I'm in the need of making that QEMU ...
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I noticed that when I looked at my documents folder, there was an XAPK file there. I knew it was there, but Nautilus detected it as a zip file. I was able to change filetype settings before on my RPi, ...
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I have NFS server. I can mount it manually: sudo mount -t nfs myserver:/srv/nfs /mnt But I can also mount it with file managers, as I'm broadcasting its presence using avahi. I can mount it via ...
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