Nautilus “Open in Terminal” on Fedora/CentOS/Red Hat (RHEL)

This is quick tip howto add “Open in Terminal” to Nautilus (Gnome File Manager) context menu on Fedora, CentOS and Red Hat (RHEL). Many Linux, Nautilus Open in Terminal feature is installed by default. For some reason on Red Hat-based Linux, this does not exists. This is very useful little feature and speed up moving to console from Nautilus.

1. Change root user

su -
## OR ##
sudo -i

2. Install nautilus-open-terminal package

yum install nautilus-open-terminal

3. Change back to normal user

Press Ctrl + d

OR write

exit

4. Killall Nautilus

killall nautilus

5. Start Nautilus / File Manager

Use launcher from the menu or

nautilus &
 
## OR just browser##
 
nautilus --browser &

6. Use Open in Terminal

Change to the desired directory and click the right mouse button.

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2 Comments

  1. today 02-17-2012, it no work with Fedora 16, you can see the bug https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=716567 I think so presents conflict with Nautilus Python, then nautilus does not start.

    • Hi kuboode,

      It’s is working normally for me on Fedora 16? That bug is on nautilus-terminal, but guide use nautilus-open-terminal package.

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