GNOME Bugzilla – Bug 91989
Open a new terminal with its working directory preset to current folder
Last modified: 2009-01-07 21:14:53 UTC
Start a new terminal/shell session. Set that new session's current working directory according to what is being shown in Nautilus. For example, if Nautilus is showing the contents of a folder, and no folder has been highlit within it, set the current working directory of the new shell to that folder. An embellishment might be that if an item is highlit within that folder, and that item is a folder in itself, then set the current working directory to that highlit folder instead. It can be tiresome navigating through several layers of directories by typing. GUI file managers really excel at it. It would be so nice to use the GUI file manager to navigate around and the shell to do the rest. Hope this is useful. Mike.
I want this feature too. Note that even Windows XP has this feature (by PowerToy though). Konqueror has it.
Mike(the reporter), would you change the version to 2.2.x or 2.3.x? 1.0.x is out of date and not maintained. I think no one will see this request with that value.
Xu. I have done as you suggested and changed the version to 2.3. I'm taking it on trust that you have used 2.3 and know that the feature hasn't been put into it already. Mike.
In nautilus 2.4 you can do this by adding an "Open with..." entry for "Terminal" in the side-pane. You can also add the same thing to the right-click context menus for folders in the icon view.
*** Bug 121370 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 131107 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
Using the terminal option in the side-pane is not satisfactory (at least not for me). The featurerequest I have in mind is to have a hotkey to directly start a terminal (preferably an xterm) from nautilus and set the working dir of the terminal to the actual working dir in nautilus.
It would be nice to have this feature indeed. I find myself browsing through my filesystem, and when I'm finally in the targeted folder and I need to do something that can most conveniently be done on the commandline (run pdflatex for example), I keep searching for a "Open terminal" option :-)
You are not alone: http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=114227
*** Bug 143917 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
*** Bug 154359 has been marked as a duplicate of this bug. ***
I agree! This feature would be very handy (I was about to register a new feature request on this precise topic when I found this). Has anyone tried implementing this? If not, I'm happy to put a bit of time in.. It's just adding to a context menu entry.
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/nautilus-open-terminal/ nautilus-open-terminal, coming soon to a hacker near you. Marking fixed, as nautilus-open-terminal is as fixed as it is ever going to be.
Created attachment 125971 [details] The attachment is a picture of what i'm hoping for.
Sorry, that was clumsy of me - i thought the attachment would be added to this comment. Sorry folks. I've mocked-up a picture of what i'm hoping for but an animation/movie would be more useful (and much less likely, given my current limits in skills) In Konqueror (last time i used it anyway) the terminal pane and the icon view pane could easily be looking at different folders - although the 2 panes were connected by the gui there was nothing really connecting them so they could just have been 2 tabs within the file-browser gui. ok, hopefully the attachment clarifies