Nine Things You Should Know About Nautilus 257
lessthan0 writes "The Nautilus program in GNOME is not only the default file manager, it creates and manages the desktop. While it looks simple on the surface, there is a lot of hidden power under the shell. The latest version of Nautilus is 2.14.0, which is included in Fedora Core 5. article covers a few non-obvious things about how Nautilus works."
As a long-time GNOME user... (Score:4, Funny)
Re:Kan it run in KDE (Score:5, Funny)
Trash Dot (Score:5, Funny)
The ~/.Trash directory is where files are moved if you delete local files. On mounted volumes, Nautilus will create a hidden
So will
Re:As a long-time GNOME user... (Score:2, Funny)
Exactly!
What are these file explorer / desktop things for, anyway? A shell window with cd, ls, tab completion, and wildcards usually gets me where I want to be faster, and when I want to look at the file tree in a more "browsing" fashion, I use dirmode in EMACS.
Now I'll go back and RTFA, but if anyone who uses the tools I mention switches to using Nautilus (or similar) for some particular task they find easier there, I'd love to hear about it. Seriously, if I'm missing something, I want to know.
Re: As a long-time GNOME user... (Score:3, Funny)
There are plenty of applications you can use to browse your pjorn. You don't need something that poops all over your desktop.
Re:9 things? (Score:3, Funny)
Come on, fellow Slashdotter. That's:
Remember, pardner: anonymous dicts are your friends. And way more 1337.
Man... (Score:3, Funny)