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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