Comments on: Linux Gnome: Add Open Terminal Here / Open Shell Prompt Here Right Click Menu To a File Manager

By: Nikhil

Nikhil — Sun, 18 Dec 2011 04:10:49 +0000

Worked like a charm, THANKS!
For the really non-coder user, there is a point-n-click way to make the script:
1. Go to the Home folder, click View>Show Hidden Files from the menu.
2. Go into the .gnome2/nautilus-scripts/ folder
3. Right-click > Create Document > Empty File
4. Rename the file to “Open Terminal Here”
5. Open the file in simple text editor.
6. Copy-paste all the code given above in here. Save and close and go back to the folder.
7. On the file again, Right-click > properties , see the “Permissions” tab, check ON the “Allow executing file as program” option, and click on Close.
–Now it should work – on any folder, right-click and you’ll see the Scripts > Open Terminal Here option.

By: M_P

M_P — Fri, 11 Nov 2011 17:09:57 +0000

Mega thanks.

By: Daniel AJ

Daniel AJ — Sat, 05 Nov 2011 00:56:30 +0000

Awesome, thank you! For some reason, one directory I have here is named “cd ..”. I have no idea how that came about. Of course, with the Shell you can’t navigate to it. But from Nautilus I could and then I opened the Shell from there – thanks to your script. Very helpful!

By: Rahul

Rahul — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 08:11:31 +0000

Nice trick… thanks

By: Le Gluon du Net

Le Gluon du Net — Fri, 14 Oct 2011 20:00:05 +0000

Thank you very much, work immediatly on Ubuntu 11.10 with gnome 3.

By: Cong N

Cong N — Wed, 05 Jan 2011 19:28:00 +0000

You can this command nautilus -q after chances so you don’t have to reboot or logout.

By: JeffH

JeffH — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 05:20:14 +0000

FYI, on Ubuntu 10.04.1 64-bit, I had to reboot to pick up any changes to Nautilus.

By: thilini

thilini — Sun, 25 Jul 2010 16:42:26 +0000

can this script modified to open different terminals, for multicore machines. as one terminal executes its all in cpu1, and the other executes all in cpu2

By: Bill M.

Bill M. — Mon, 19 Apr 2010 04:01:09 +0000

Thanks so much for the great tutorial — worked like a charm on my Ubuntu system.

By: german

german — Mon, 12 Apr 2010 23:21:40 +0000

Thank you so much !
sincerely, germán.

By: netin

netin — Mon, 01 Feb 2010 15:44:48 +0000

simply put the command ‘gnome-terminal’ in a text file inside the nautilus-script folder.set execute permission on.thats all.

By: Yaroslav Nikitenko

Yaroslav Nikitenko — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 09:28:29 +0000

Thanks.
But how can one add a menu button, or, even better, create a keyboard shortcut?..

By: Bunkaido

Bunkaido — Thu, 02 Apr 2009 21:36:12 +0000

Anyone know how to replicate the nautilus-open-terminal functionality but with Shutdown and Log Off options for the session?

By: Malte

Malte — Sat, 28 Feb 2009 09:56:23 +0000

Very nice.
Though I wish I could add a button to the menu bar to just open the terminal.
There’s an app like that for the mac, and it just saves you the time to select the folder first and go to a sub-menu.

By: Dennis

Dennis — Sun, 18 Jan 2009 09:49:13 +0000

tnx its really handy..

By: jazzyjeph

jazzyjeph — Sun, 04 Jan 2009 11:20:32 +0000

Hi, have I missed something or could you not just open Synaptic and add “nautilus-open-terminal”.
Worked for me, as they say :)

By: Frode Haugsgjerd

Frode Haugsgjerd — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 20:24:51 +0000

Nice, but why don’t you just use $PWD ?
Works fine on latest ubuntu, (8.10), as an added bonus, it’ll work on fuse mounted shares(ftp,ssh,smb…)

By: Mike

Mike — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:16:52 +0000

Thanks! Works Perfectly in OpenSolaris Indiana

By: Amos Batto

Amos Batto — Sat, 08 Nov 2008 03:56:51 +0000

The Scripts option will only appear in the Nautilus File menu and Right click menu if there are scripts already present in the $HOME/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/ directory. If this is your first script, in that directory, you will need to logout of X Windows and then login again to get Nautilus to recognize that scripts are present and add the Scripts option to its menus.

By: Toby Haynes

Toby Haynes — Fri, 07 Nov 2008 15:01:41 +0000

Also take a look at Nautilus Actions for a GUI approach to extending Nautilus.