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What do I want : On the file manager lf, we can bind some keyboard shortcuts to do either a lf command with :, or a shell command with $, !, or other symbols. According to the documentation, there is ...
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I am using thunar file manager. But I have the following "problem". For example I open a pdf file and make some changes and I want to save this change to this file. To do this, I need to ...
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Why are there entries of these drivers in the Files > downloads & Files > recent folders? I never do updates by Browser. These entries are from CL updates or GUI POP_SHOP app
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I know there is "midnight commander", but it kind of sucks. I am looking for a file manager with lots of features, like "dos navigator", but for linux.
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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 ...
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What I want to achieve is to have a specific emoji appear next to dotfiles inside file manager "LF" (these can be made visible in the file manager with the "zh" shortcut). In my ~/....
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Assuming a kubernetes container has bash or similar installed, is it possible to use midnight commander (e.g. shell link, sftp link, ...) to browse the container's filesystem?
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The following command opens a file manager to show the directory. dbus-send --session --dest=org.freedesktop.FileManager1 --print-reply \ --type=method_call /org/freedesktop/FileManager1 \ org....
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I need some guidance. The progress bar does not move at all in the file managers on my Arch Linux system. It stays at zero until the copy has finished. I have tried Nautilus, Nemo, and Thunar, and ...
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I installed ranger console file manager on Ubuntu. I'd like to view images with it in the console (which I access via JupyterLab), so I also installed caca-utils, which contains img2txt: sudo apt-get ...
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I installed Ubuntu 24.04 LTS inside a Virtual Box on a new Windows 11 host. Clicking on the File Manager on the Desktop (or on related buttons like trash bin or CD) does not show a normal window but ...
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I am writing a shell script that is meant to prompt the user for a file, and since I do not expect the end user of my script to be tech-savvy, rather than starting command line for interaction, I ...
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I'm using KDE Plasma, and frequently need to package file sets into tar.gz or zip. This usually requires opening Ark, creating a new file, and working from there, which is a run-around. It would be ...
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Please don't mark it as duplicated before reading my question. I know that there already are those questions, but the existing answer did not work as expected, and that is why I am asking this ...
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Is it possible to hide filenames that are too big in Thunar? As for now, they stretch the row to fit their names, like in the image: It not only wastes too much space, but also makes harder to ...
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I am using Zorin OS. Consider the below screenshot: I want the Address Bar editable to write the path of my intended folder location. Are there any settings that need to be configured or is there any ...
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Basically what I want: When I browse files/dires with lf, I want to toggle "something" on the way. And only see PDF files, and make invisible any other file-types. Rationale: Sometimes it's ...
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I have kitty, and I use nnn as file manager. I actiavted the "preview-tui" plugin in nnn. When I hover over a folder, I see something like this: What are those strange escape sequences?
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Is there a File manager for Gnome that is comparable to the KDE Dolphin file manager? I am unable to use the Gnome file manager to drag and drop files into an audio VST's interface but it works using ...
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Some file managers open very slow on kubuntu, bullseye 11. I had a problem on UDisks2VolumeMonitor, so fixing this, halved the time needed to run. (ps. UDisks2VolumeMonitor --> problem on mraid2 ...
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While using nnn, I need to edit a file that requires sudo privileges. I love that I'm able to navigate quickly to the file I want to edit using nnn, and how it immediately opens the file in my editor. ...
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Using nnn (which is a terminal-based file manager), how can you copy the text of a file or folder's name to the clipboard? For your convenience, this will install and launch nnn in Debian (if you'd ...
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When I use zenity and type --file-selection, if spawns the default GTK file selector. The problem with that is, of course, the lack of image thumbnails. Considering that I want to make an image ...
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I recently upgraded to Debian 11 Bullseye. From the previous Debian Buster I had rsync'ed the whole user folder onto an external hard drive. The internal drive was completely formatted and after the ...
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As far as I know, when you hit Ctrl+Alt+T, the Linux terminal pops up. However, it opens in the default home directory. I want to set up this shortcut to open in the directory I am currently in at my ...
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I think I asked that some years ago, but cannot find it anymore. I just upgraded to Fedora 36 and since then, my LibreOffice uses its own inbuilt file browser again, rather than Gnome's nautilus. The ...
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I've got a bunch of dxvk-cache files in a particular folder that really adds a lot of clutter. I tried making a .hidden file in the folder with *.dxvk-cache as a line to hide them from my file manager ...
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In Windows if one wishes certain file (or directory) to be shown in the beginning of file lists in a file manager (no matter which one, really), one may choose to put the underscore character in the ...
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File manager context menu scripts sometimes do the job far quicker than using a GUI utility. So I've been using dozens of simple and more complex scripts for a long time in file managers Dolphin, ...
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I never need to open a GUI File Managers in remote X, until today. However none of the two File Managers that I have can do that, pcmanfm-qt and thunar. Typing them in my remote Xterm, they will just ...
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I use Mint 20.2 with Mate File Manager. I am new to Linux, and I am a long time user of MacOS. I am looking for a way to close all the open windows of the File Manager with one command, possibly just ...
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Nautilus trash do not move file to trash bin on btrfs file system instead it deletes them permanently. Thunar seems to do the same thing, and it seems related to lower level library implementation of ...
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I could not get Ranger to be my default file manager using every tutorial I could find. Help is appreciated - I'll describe my attempts below: In Default Application -> Utilities -> Other... -&...
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Imagine you have 1000 files. You move/copy to a different folder. You start the process, all going well, you leave the computer. At file number 10 an error dialog states if you want to overwrite, ...
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I installed Dolphin successfully, its icon is in Application → System Tools and it works well. But, in Settings → Details → Default Applications there's everything else just not File Manager. Why this?...
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I'm using the Nemo file manager (4.8.6) within the Cinnamon Desktop environment (4.8.6), on a Devuan Chimaera GNU/Linux system. I would like to create a symbolic link to a file I have in my Nemo ...
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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 ...
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I've installed antiX Linux 19.3, and I want to change the file manager - for the first user and by default - to something other than the annoying rox (sorry, I just don't like it). So, I've installed ...
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I just installed antiX Linux 19.3. When I (auto-)login and IceWM comes up, I get an error dialog saying: The pin board has not yet been used ... set the default background. Start ROX-Filer with 'rox -...
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I am using ranger as cli file manager. I would love to order files in this way: Folders alphabetically Files alphabetically Folders starting with . alphabetically Files starting with . alphabetically ...
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I'm irritated on having to navigate completely through the GUI folder file system with the GUI folder view. Is there any way within the GUI to just pass the path to where I want to look and explore or ...
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I need exactly this one but on Linux: Anyone know of a way to simply paste a screenshot (taken with PrtScn or Alt+PrtScn) into a Windows Explorer folder and have it be saved as an image (possibly ...
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I was looking for a convenient file manager to move a lot of files and folders on Linux and needed to see as much detail as possible. Unfortunately I had some problems too, with some errors (details ...
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I have ubuntu, and I have mounted NAS on my computer. NAS can be mounted only if VPN is active. The problem is, when a connection problem occures, or when I umount the NAS resources, the file manager ...
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I decided to use a partition for all things docker. Everything went smooth and working as expected. Except one part. When I boot up a project which uses "volumes" it shows it in the file ...
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I recently installed Debian without a desktop environment. Currently, I'm using OpenBox in X11 and have yet to install a File Manager. I've found that in, seemingly all, programs capable of opening or ...
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I would like to know the difference between nautilus and sudo nautilus. Please help. Thank you.
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I have a newly installed lubuntu 20.04 using pcmanfm as file manager. When I copy a file(or images) using Ctrl+C and paste it in browser (gmail or facebook chat). But when I paste it in file manager, ...
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I recently installed 'stl-thumb' as a thumbnailer plugin to the file managers, but I notice that it isn't converting all files with the .stl extension. Upon closer inspection using the shell 'file --...
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I have mkv files with covers attached to them. How do I get to show them (when they are there) as the thumbnails in my file manager instead of a random frame ffmpegthumbnailer is usually does? I know ...
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