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.