[Wolves] GNOME + nautilus questions

[Mike Peters]

On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 13:04:05 +0000
Rob Annable <rob.annable at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:40:26 +0000, Ron Wellsted <ron at wellsted.org.uk>
> wrote:
> > On Sun, 2005-01-30 at 12:35 +0000, Rob Annable wrote:
> > > On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:24:25 +0000, Alan Pope
> > > <alan.pope at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > On Sun, 30 Jan 2005 12:17:40 +0000, Rob Annable
> > > > <rob.annable at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > > > Firstly, is there a way you can get nautilus to open folders
> > > > > in the browse format straight away, rather than right-click
> > > > > and choose'browse folder'? I need the back/forward/up buttons
> > > > > and a location bar and I want to be able to double click and
> > > > > get going.
> > > >
> > > > nautilus --browser
> > > >
> > >
> > > Erk, that's 19 key presses.
> > >
> > > I'm Mr.GUI and my mouse has been surgically attached to my hand -
> > > how about if I want to click on a desktop icon? At the moment I
> > > just get the raw folder with no navigation buttons and further
> > > clicking opens a new window - that sucks. I want it to default to
> > > the browser setting.
> > >
> > > Rob
> > 
> > Right click the nautilus icon, select properties and modify the
> > command to read "nautilus --browser"  (mine has "nautilus
> > --no-desktop--browser")
> > 
> > --
> > Ron Wellsted
> 
> Cool, that sounds like the answer (I'll try it later, I'm on my Dad's
> Windoze box at the moment), what does the --no-desktop bit do?
> 
An easier way of doing this is to open up Configuration Editor from your
menu (or gconf-editor from a prompt) and browse to apps -> nautilus ->
preferences and tick the always_use_browser option. Although as Jono
said I would give Spatial Nautilus a chance, it takes a bit of getting
used to but is worth it once you get the hang of it. Here's a link which
will give you an outline of the way things work:

http://www.bytebot.net/geekdocs/spatial-nautilus.html

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