Recently, I changed my default file manager from Nautilus to Dolphin in Pop!_OS by this command:

xdg-mime default org.kde.dolphin.desktop inode/directory'

and checked again which is the default file manager by executing this command:

xdg-mime query default inode/directory

and I get this output:

org.kde.dolphin.desktop

But, Gogle Chrome still opens Nautilus as the default file manager. I thought of removing it, but doing so will result in potential damage to my system since it is a built-in file. Here is the picture to view the scenario. And, instantly when I browsed that picture, Chrome, as usual, used Nautilus to browse the picture. Anyway to sort out this issue? I just want to sure that all applications use Dolphin as the default file manager without removing Nautilus. Update: As suggested, I also used xdg-open command to find the default file manager the system is using. And I noticed that, Dolphin opens up automatically with the entered file location.

While trying to use Nautilus as primary file manager for Xfce I noticed that it seems impossible to reach the preferences menu in Xfce. On a normal Ubuntu installation with GNOME or similar it is reachable by using the menu in the top bar under the File section. The problem is that Xfce and KDE don't have such a bar, and it seems that the application menu is not showing anywhere. Is this normal, and is there a way to get around this (with the same keyboard shortcut or another)? It works as it is, but it's not configurable at all.

According to my understanding of the [File Naming section](https://specifications.freedesktop.org/desktop-entry-spec/latest/ar01s02.html) in the XDG Desktop Entry Specification, I should name my .desktop file following reverse-DNS notation: > The name of the desktop entry should follow the "reverse DNS" convention: it should start with a reversed DNS domain name controlled by the author of the application, in lower case. The domain name should be followed by the name of the application, which is conventionally written with words run together and initial capital letters (CamelCase). For example, if the owner of example.org writes "Foo Viewer", they might choose the name org.example.FooViewer, resulting in a file named org.example.FooViewer.desktop. Naming the desktop file this way and placing it in XDG_DATA_HOME/applications and then running xdg-desktop-menu forceupdate afterwards does indeed result in my application showing up in all the usual places.. except for gnome. For some reason, my application won't show up in the "Recommended Applications", Gnome's equivalent to the "Open with.." in other File Managers/Desktop Environments. The desktop is valid according to desktop-file-validate. After a quite a bit of digging, I came across recommendations to use another program, xdg-desktop-menu install to validate the file. When I did, it produced the following error: > xdg-desktop-menu: filename 'org.example.FooViewer.desktop' does not have a proper vendor prefix A vendor prefix consists of alpha characters ([a-zA-Z]) and is terminated with a dash ("-"). An example filename is 'example-org.example.FooViewer.desktop' Use --novendor to override or 'xdg-desktop-menu --manual' for additional info. When I tried this by removing the reverse DNS notation and just naming the file example-FooViewer.desktop, it finally showed up in gnome. Now I'm confused. Why is gnome breaking when I name my file according to the spec? Why does xdg-desktop-menu deny processing this file despite it conforming to the spec? Why is gnome NOT breaking for other similarly-named desktop entry files - all Flatpaks show up in gnome's "open with" menu despite their desktop entries being named in reverse-DNS notation and most not containing vendor prefixes or so much as a single dash! What is going on here? and how should I handle this conflict as an independent third-party packager? Am I missing something?

Is there a log file I can peruse, or settings somewhere that might give me a clue? I'm running GNOME nautilus 3.14.3 ("Files") in Ubuntu 16.04.

I use Nautilus to explore my files. I use a Debian-based OS with KDE Plasma 5. I use the keyboard a lot. When I press the key up when navigating files, if I'm already at the extremity of the list of files, Nautilus sends a big system beep which I will hear at 100% volume through my headphones. My reaction is comparable to getting electrified. I have placed the following lines in ~/.bashrc for the sudo (root) user and for my regular desktop user: # Turn off system beep in console: xset b off xset b 0 0 0 However, despite the beep going away from some places in the OS (such as erasing an empty line in the gnome-terminal), it's still in Nautilus. I believe it's because Nautilus doesn't source any of the .bashrc or because it ignores the xset commands. How do I fix this? What I need might be at a deeper level than the .bashrc, some file that is executed by everything, but which can still control the sound. Otherwise, disabling the sound another way or replacing it could be interesting.

Answers on this thread: https://askubuntu.com/questions/1230884/cannot-move-files-from-and-to-desktop mention that the drag and drop to desktop does not work because in the experimental version of Nautlius. But as another answer points out, it does not seem to be possible to disable this. This discussion about whether or not this is a feature or a bug: https://itsfoss.community/t/ubuntu-20-04-desktop-are-these-features-or-bugs/4610/13 did not seem to reach a consensus: some people claimed it was a bug and others said it was a feature. Are we simply stuck with no drag and drop to desktop, or is there a work around? If not, will this eventually be possible, or is it an intended, permanent feature? P.S. Please let us not turn this into a philosphical discussion whether this *should* be possible. I'm just wondering whether it is or will be.

I have NFS server. I can mount it manually: sudo mount -t nfs myserver:/srv/nfs /mnt But I can also mount it with file managers, as I'm broadcasting its presence using avahi. I can mount it via thunar (xfce's file manager), but I'm not able to access it via GNOME's Nautilus. Nautilus says: Unable to access location: Mountpoint does not exist. GVFS log says: nfs: Added new job source 0x55c37a44e2f0 (GVfsBackendNfs) nfs: Queued new job 0x55c37a43cf30 (GVfsJobMount) nfs: send_reply(0x55c37a43cf30), failed=1 (Mountpoint does not exist) Server side /etc/exports: # /etc/exports - exports(5) - directories exported to NFS clients # # Example for NFSv2 and NFSv3: # /srv/home hostname1(rw,sync) hostname2(ro,sync) # Example for NFSv4: # /srv/nfs4 hostname1(rw,sync,fsid=0) # /srv/nfs4/home hostname1(rw,sync,nohide) # Using Kerberos and integrity checking: # /srv/nfs4 *(rw,sync,sec=krb5i,fsid=0) # /srv/nfs4/home *(rw,sync,sec=krb5i,nohide) # # Use exportfs -arv to reload. /srv/nfs 192.168.1.0/24(rw,sync,no_subtree_check,all_squash,insecure) Server side /etc/avahi/services/nfs.service: %h-nfs _nfs._tcp 2049 path=/srv/nfs

I have a Nautilus script that I would like to modify so it performs a single operation using multiple selected files as input. Can someone please explain how to achieve this? I tried command $NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS and what the script does is execute command file1, then command file2 as two discrete operations. That doesn't work for my use case, instead I need the script to execute command file1 file2. If it matters, I am using it with the command align_image_stack which needs 2 or more image files as input. I started Nautilus from a terminal to see error messages and I get *"align_image_stack: At least two files need to be specified"*. I've tested a few commands shown below, but all produce the same error message. I think the problem is the variable $NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS produces newlines, but I don't know how else to capture selected file paths. align_image_stack "$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS" align_image_stack $(echo "$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS") align_image_stack printf("$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS") echo -n "$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS" | xargs -I align_image_stack "{}"

GTK applications mark files as recently used by adding them to the XML in ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel, but I am frequently working with files from terminal-driven applications like latex, and these are not marked in the GTK list and hence not available from the "Recent" bookmark in GUI file browsers/pickers etc.. Is there a CLI command I can use to explicitly add files to the Recent list, for smoothing operations between the terminal and GUI sides of my Linux usage? Either an official way, or a fast & simple hack with the side-effect of writing to the recently-used.xbel file!

I have a strange problem, I have had it since i installed Debian 12 Bookworm, earlier I was using Debian 8 Jessie and there was not this problem. Every time I open up Nautilus there is no default sorting, at least not show with arrow up or arrow down in the description bar. If i click '*name*' so it sorts by '*name*' ASC, it works in the current folder I'm in, and it can work in next folder also, but some folder can be sorted DESC by '*name*' when I open. I was trying to browse before writing this post to try to find examples on this. When I open up Nautilus, the current directory will be '*/home/username*' with no sorting at least what I can figure, when I then press '*name*' it sorts the folders and files ASC and it shows folders first, like I want it. But when I then click on '*Downloads'* (*/home/username/Downloads*) it the sort by '*last_modified*'. And if I go into '*Documents*' it's sorting it by '*name*' but DESC. I start to go crazy by this, I want every folder to be sorted by '*name*' ASC. gsettings get org.gnome.nautilus.preferences default-sort-order 'name' And: dconf /org/gnome/nautilus/preferences/default-sort-order 'name' I have browser through the whole dconf, and I cannot seem to find any values that is relevant to the this problem. And one more problem I have is that it always show hidden files, even if the *'/org/gnome/nautilus/preferences/show-hidden-files'* is turned off.

I am setting up a new computer in my home. Both my old computer and my new one run various flavors of Ubuntu Linux, the new one Kubuntu 24.04.1, the old one Ubuntu 24.04.1. There are certain files on the old system that I want to copy to the new one. I have the sshd_config files set to permit access by my username with ChrootDirectory / I find the following situation occurring: running command-line sftp, I can connect to the other computer and successfully do cd /. Also, running FileZilla I can get to the root dir of the remote. However with Dolphin, though I can make an sftp://myname@remote connection, after entering the password, I can't go above /home/myname. Similarly, as an experiment I can make the reverse connection from the old computer to the new one. I also, though, cannot get above my home directory. How can I make this work, and in particular, if FileZilla and command-line sftp manage to do so, why can't Dolphin or Gnome Files do it?

As a user with non root privileges, when copy/moving a bounch of folders and files, in one batch, from some device into another different partition which is ext4 and too small (space allocated to user) to contain the entire batch of files and folders, but big enough to contain say half of them, and also big enough to contain all of them when considering the special space allocated to root, does nautilus warn before starting or does it interrupt the copy/move when filling the space available to the normal user? The copy/move is done through the GUI with right mouse click -> copy/move and then right mouse click -> paste.

I am working on creating a way to right click on an .eml file, right click, and have python pull two pieces of data from it and paste them into a new xlsx file and auto open the xlsx file. I would try this code on a Linux but I don't know whether it would throw an error I can't fix. ---------- I did the following on a mac and it failed to execute correctly. A method is to have a shellscript in Automator call a .py file which calls a .ipynb file. The action “Run Shell Script” encountered an error: When I run it on a .eml file I see, “/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/usr/bin/python3: can't open file '/users///Documents/run_notebook1.py': [Errno 1] Operation not permitted” When I use automator to test the script with "get specified finder items" The action “Run Shell Script” encountered an error: “Python path configuration: PYTHONHOME = (not set) PYTHONPATH = (not set) program name = '/Users//opt/anaconda3/bin/python' isolated = 0 environment = 1 user site = 1 import site = 1 sys._base_executable = '/Users//opt/anaconda3/bin/python' sys.base_prefix = '/Users//opt/anaconda3' sys.base_exec_prefix = '/Users//opt/anaconda3' sys.platlibdir = 'lib' sys.executable = '/Users//opt/anaconda3/bin/python' sys.prefix = '/Users//opt/anaconda3' sys.exec_prefix = '/Users//opt/anaconda3' sys.path = [ '/Users//opt/anaconda3/lib/python39.zip', '/Users//opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.9', '/Users//opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.9/lib-dynload', ] Fatal Python error: init_fs_encoding: failed to get the Python codec of the filesystem encoding Python runtime state: core initialized ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'encodings' >Current thread 0x00000001ef41cc00 (most recent call first): Traceback (most recent call last): File "/users//Documents/run_notebook1.py", line 27, in run_notebook(eml_file) File "/users//Documents/run_notebook1.py", line 16, in run_notebook subprocess.run(command, shell=True,check=True) File "/Applications/Xcode.app/Contents/Developer/Library/Frameworks/Python3.framework/Versions/3.9/lib/python3.9/subprocess.py", line 528, in run raise CalledProcessError(retcode, process.args, subprocess.CalledProcessError: Command '/Users//opt/anaconda3/bin/jupyter nbconvert --to notebook --execute --inplace --ExecutePreprocessor.timeout=-1 /Users//Documents/process_email1.ipynb' returned non-zero exit status 1. Is the answer where is one is supposed to find python39.zip? sys.path = [ '/Users//opt/anaconda3/lib/python39.zip', '/Users//opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.9', '/Users//opt/anaconda3/lib/python3.9/lib-dynload' I ran the .py file in terminal using python3 file.py without problems. Shellscript in Automator (xcode is installed so I don't need to specify python directory): python3 /users//Documents/run_notebook1.py "$1" The .py file: import sys import subprocess import os def run_notebook(eml_file): # Path to the notebook notebook_path = '/Users//Documents/process_email1.ipynb' # Set environment variable os.environ['EML_FILE_PATH'] = eml_file # Command to run the notebook with nbconvert command = f'/Users//opt/anaconda3/bin/jupyter nbconvert --to notebook --execute --inplace --ExecutePreprocessor.timeout=-1 {notebook_path}' # Run the command subprocess.run(command, shell=True,check=True) # Ensure the file path is passed as argument if len(sys.argv) != 2: print("Usage: python run_notebook.py ") sys.exit(1) # Get the EML file path eml_file = sys.argv # Run the notebook with the EML file path run_notebook(eml_file) The .ipynb file import email import pandas as pd import os from email import policy from email.parser import BytesParser from datetime import datetime import subprocess # Retrieve the EML file path from the environment variable eml_file = os.getenv('EML_FILE_PATH') # Check if the environment variable is set if not eml_file: raise ValueError("EML_FILE_PATH environment variable not set. Please pass the file path.") # Function to extract email file information def extract_eml_info(eml_file): # Parse the .eml file with open(eml_file, 'rb') as f: msg = BytesParser(policy=policy.default).parse(f) # Extract the file name (without extension) file_name = os.path.splitext(os.path.basename(eml_file)) # Extract the most recent date of the email conversation date_str = msg['date'] if date_str: try: email_date = email.utils.parsedate_to_datetime(date_str) except Exception as e: email_date = None else: email_date = None return file_name, email_date # Function to remove timezone information from DataFrame def remove_timezone_from_df(df): # Iterate over all columns for col in df.columns: if pd.api.types.is_datetime64_any_dtype(df[col]): # Remove timezone info if it's a datetime column df[col] = df[col].dt.tz_localize(None) return df # Function to process EML files def process_eml_files(eml_files): # List to store extracted data data = [] for eml_file in eml_files: file_name, email_date = extract_eml_info(eml_file) data.append([file_name, email_date]) # Create DataFrame df = pd.DataFrame(data, columns=['File Name', 'Most Recent Date']) df = remove_timezone_from_df(df) # Write to Excel output_file = 'output_eml_data.xlsx' df.to_excel(output_file, index=False, engine='openpyxl') print(f"Data written to {output_file}") # Open the newly created Excel file if os.name == 'nt': # For Windows os.startfile(output_file) elif os.name == 'posix': # For macOS/Linux subprocess.call(['open', output_file]) return output_file # Process the provided EML file process_eml_files([eml_file])

I recently swapped from Windows 10 to Arch Linux. I connected to a Samba share on NAS but after restarting Arch desktop, the Nautilus file manager says "folder is empty". I connected to it via a symlink so I can acces all my files.

I use Nemo file manager on Linux Mint 19 Tara. Usually I only work with the compact view without thumbnails (see image A), but occasionally I switch to icon view with thumbnails (see image B). To switch from A to B I have to 1. Open the settings 2. Enable thumbnails 3. Change to icon view and to switch back from B to A 4. Open the settings 5. Disable thumbnails 6. Change to compact view I'd like switch by just clicking the icon view (see image 3) or compact view (see image 6) buttons in the toolbar so that I have to click only once instead of seven times. **Q:** Is there a way to enable thumbnails only in icon view? I already checked for hidden dconf settings but couldn't find any. Maybe there is a plugin for what I need or a simple way to write one. **Possible workarounds which would also be acceptable:** - A toolbar button to toggle thumbnails on/off. - Enable thumbnails only for icon sizes > ??px. I always use small icons in compact view and bigger icons/thumbnails in icon view. **I'm _not_ interested in** - showing thumbnails only in certain directories or for certain file types. - using another file manager. This question is tagged as [tag:nautilus] since Nemo is a fork of Nautilus. If there is a solution for Nautilus please post it. I may be able to use that solution for Nemo too.

So, once again, I performed an innocent-looking action in Linux, and not I can't put it back the way it was before. The other day, I was trying to find something in the file system. (Usually, I use Dolphin, but this guide said I could find it more easily in Nautilus/Files in gnome.) While inside the "Files" app, I clicked on "Other Locations", and one of my hard disks was listed there. After clicking on it, I was prompted to mount that partition. I did not want to mount it, as it is one of the boot partitions, and was already mounted. But now, each time I restart the computer, the same prompt pops up on login. I have mounted it, and unmounted it. Everything is fine, it just mounts the already exisiting "/boot" partition to "/media/$USERNAME" which is silly and unnecessary. I have: * looked through Autostart * looked through my list of devices * modified "/etc/fstab" and added this particular UUID with the "noauto" option Nothing seems to change, either good or bad. **How can I find this location and get rid of the prompt on each login?** *(The removable devices panel was interesting, as it had this trouble partition all by itself under "Attached Devices", but I cannot seem to make any changes here, or mark it to NOT be automatically mounted.)*

When using Ubuntu 24.04 or Debian 11 and I plug in my iPhone 8 with a usb cable the Gnome Files app (and MATE's equivalent) show both iPhone's DCIM volume as well as the iPhone's documents (shared app files) volume in the sidebar as two separate volumes. When I do the same on Debian 12 (that has been upgraded to Debian Testing) I only see the DCIM volume in the sidebar of Gnome Files. I'm wondering if there's a specific component that I'm missing that mounts this volume and makes it available automatically in the Files app? I already have libimobiledevice-1.0-6 and the equivalent ...-glue-1.0-0 packages installed. I've seen an answer about ifuse but that appears to be a manual workaround, and my experience tells me it's possible to have it done automatically when plugging in the phone. Both gnome-shell and nautilus are version 47.0 (from Debian unstable). #### Update ifuse also doesn't show me what I'm looking for, which is the shared files by individual apps — instead it shows a raw and locked down directory hierarchy that I don't have much use for.

I am using Debian Testing. After an update, Nautilus doesn't start anymore. Launching it from terminal gives this:

$ nautilus
** Message: 16:38:50.596: Connecting to org.freedesktop.Tracker3.Miner.Files
MESA-INTEL: warning: ../src/intel/vulkan/anv_formats.c:763: FINISHME: support YUV colorspace with DRM format modifiers
MESA-INTEL: warning: ../src/intel/vulkan/anv_formats.c:794: FINISHME: support more multi-planar formats with DRM modifiers

(org.gnome.Nautilus:85373): Gdk-WARNING **: 16:38:51.083: The program 'org.gnome.Nautilus' received an X Window System error.
This probably reflects a bug in the program.
The error was 'BadMatch (invalid parameter attributes)'.
  (Details: serial 1021 error_code 8 request_code 149 (unknown) minor_code 4)
  (Note to programmers: normally, X errors are reported asynchronously;
   that is, you will receive the error a while after causing it.
   To debug your program, run it with the GDK_SYNCHRONIZE environment
   variable to change this behavior. You can then get a meaningful
   backtrace from your debugger if you break on the gdk_x_error() function.)

Version:

$ apt-cache policy nautilus
nautilus:
  Installed: 47.0-1
  Candidate:  47.0-1
  Version Table:
 *** 47.0-1 500
        500 http://deb.debian.org/debian  testing/main amd64 Packages

What can I do?

I installed a basic Ubuntu server, and then installed a Unity session. The Nautilus sidebar won't show user directories. .config/user-dirs.dirs ----------------------

XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/Desktop"
XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR="$HOME/Downloads"
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
XDG_PUBLICSHARE_DIR="$HOME/Public"
XDG_DOCUMENTS_DIR="$HOME/Documents"
XDG_MUSIC_DIR="$HOME/Music"
XDG_PICTURES_DIR="$HOME/Pictures"
XDG_VIDEOS_DIR="$HOME/Videos"

Does Nautilus depend on a certain package such that when not installed nautilus doesn't search for XDG User Directories?

I Tried to add sendto option in nautilus file manager for sending files via bluetooth like the windows file manager (send to with various option like bluetooth or email) by using nautilus-sendto and gnome-bluetooth-sendto but non of thees packages showing the right-click sendto option on nautulus, so is that any way to activate this option on nautilus? i'm using Debian GNU/Linux trixie/sid with gnome 46?