This question already has answers here: How do I start Nautilus as root? (10 answers) Closed 5 years ago. Newbie here. I had to install adobe flash plugin and add it to firefox. I followed instructions of a youtube video and did that successfully. In one of the step it asked me to enter the … Read more
I pressed enter in the prompt for username and pass, while trying to view a pc (with windows) in my local network. I tried to use seahorse to remove the stored data but I could not find the entry, I am using ubuntu 14.04… Answer Open Passwords and Keys and search in the search field … Read more
I am a beginner for Linux/Unix,according to what i have learn and researched there are ext ,2,3,4 and a GUI version Nautilus or such similar ones.. How do i know if graphical file managers use ext 2,3 or 4? i am a newbie so please be detailed as possible Answer EXT is the filesystem Linux … Read more
In order to be able to install evolution 3.18.2 to Ubuntu 15.10, I had to add the gnome3-team ppa and the gnome3-team staging ppa. As a result, Nautilus (Files) is version 3.18.2. This is a problem (versus older versions) is that other partitions show as other locations, not under home directory listings. Just about all … Read more
I am looking to configure Ubuntu(Any version, new installation) for presentation in which I would like to do the following things : Automatic guest-login at startup. Completely disable keyboard,mouse, USB ports, there is a touch-screen available which the user can use. Disable TTY access i.e ctrl+alt+F2,F3, and so on. No access to file-system via nautilus. … Read more
I have thousands of pictures (raw) in my computer sorted out into many folders and subfolders. I want to copy those into cloud drive. I successfully mounted to cloud drive. Due to my limited upload bandwidth it may take couple of days to complete the upload. When I am trying to copy files using nautilus, … Read more
I am using fedora 30 and I would like to prevent removable drives from being mounted with executable permissions. From my research I have found that Nautilus handles the auto-mounting(using Gnome on fedora 30). I so far haven’t been able to find a setting to achieve what I want with Nautilus. I have also looked … Read more
I have been comparing thunar and nautilus to decide if I wanted to switch file manager. Both have a sidebar on the left with shortcuts to various folders (home, documents, downloads…), to which you can add your own folders. I have noticed that when I add a folder to the sidebar of one of the … Read more
Using GNOME 3, how can I disable automounting removable media and if possible, do so using the drive ID? Answer I think this might work, but haven’t tested it: gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.media-handling automount false gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.media-handling automount-open false AttributionSource : Link , Question Author : cloudcalvin , Answer Author : nielsdg
In Ubuntu, how can I make Quanta Plus the default editor for PHP files? In Windows we just use the open with context menu the first time for any new types of files and check use this application for these type of files. After that the files always open up in checked application. I want … Read more
