Call for vote: Nautilus use Browser view for fedora 11

Robert Moskowitz rgm at htt-consult.com
Mon Dec 22 17:08:17 UTC 2008


Mike Cloaked wrote:
>
> Mike Cloaked wrote:
>   
>>
>> Frank Cox-2 wrote:
>>     
>>> yum install nautilus-open-terminal
>>>
>>>
>>>       
>> Indeed it does work when right clicking to give an option to open a
>> terminal window though when doing this in f10 it opens a terminal in
>> ~/Desktop by default. 
>>
>> How can you change the default directory for the terminal window that is
>> created? (i.e. the home directory or ~/Documents)
>>
>>     
>
> Sorry to answer my own question but I found the answer looking back through
> the posts on this list from a while ago on a different thread:
>
> "Make sure you have gconf-editor installed, if not 'yum install
> gconf-editor'.  Once installed run gconf-editor and then go the Apps
> section, then look for nautilus-open-terminal.  Put a check mark in
> the desktop_opens_home_dir entry.  It will then go back to its old
> behaviour. "
>
> That works fine....(I did log out and back in to make sure of changes
> sticking)

I just added gconf-editor, and now I can right click on the desktop to 
open a terminal window.

THANKS!

Now to go do that to the one FC9 system I am running; suspect it will be 
the same sequence.





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