After installing a fresh Ubuntu (13.04) pem files (SSL certificates) are associated with "View file" (right click the file in Nautilus I see "Open with View file"), which nicely shows a clear text ...

I have just updated my OS from Ubuntu 20.04 LTS to 20.04.1 LTS. When I tried to run nautilus as root by using sudo nautilus, I get the error Authorization required, but no authorization protocol sp...

I'm trying to launch python script on Ubuntu 10.04: from gi.repository import Nautilus, GObject It doesn't work: Traceback (most recent call last): File "script.py", line 1, in <module> ...

When a user right-click on a folder in Nautilus, a menu appears. I want to add more options in that menu. I am using Gnome 3. Is there any other way to customize that menu with command line?...

I'm not able to build an executable file of an Electron App with the following command: electron-packager . electron-tutorial-app --overwrite --asar=true --platform=linux --arch=x64 --prune=true -...

I would like to build a Python script that checks if a specific directory is open in nautilus. So far the best solution I have is to use wmctrl -lxp to list all windows, which gives me output lik...

When writing a Nautilus Script (e.g. using Python), I currently am aware of two methods for basic debugging: Using (e.g. Zenity) pop-up windows as "print" statements. Capturing stderr and stdout ...

Lets say I want to execute a simple Python script from Nautilus, the default file manager of GNOME: #!/usr/bin/python3 print("Hello") Of course the aim is to interact with selected files in Naut...

I am running Ubuntu Precise. In my /etc/init.d I have a bash script that, does the following on startup: loop mounts an image on an NTFS drive. That image contains an ext2 file system with a dire...

Recently i have updated the ubuntu 14.04 to Ubuntu 15.04. Usually nautilus . command should open the directory in GUI.However, now i am getting the error like below. What is the recent for that a...

Sorry, for the vague question, don't know actually how to ask this nor the rightful terminologies for it. How to run a python script/bytecode/.pyc (any compiled python code) without going through ...

I'm trying to create a Nautilus extension in C, but there are just Python examples and helps. Almost no documentation and literally no examples, but just some complete extensions which are long an...

Before I connected to my server via Nautilus (sftp). Now I moved to Amazon EC2, and there's just one way connect to server (ubuntu 10.10 too), using ssh -i mycert.pem, no password, just certificate...

Does anyone know a way to simplify the standard context (right click) menu in Nautilus? I am making a very simplified interface for people who don't use computers very often, and I want to use Naut...

I'm playing around with get_iplayer (fantastic) it's running every few hours to grab any new episodes of whatever.... After it has finished grabbing anything new i'd like to change the emblem of ~...