[Wolves] GNOME + nautilus questions

Rob Annable rob.annable at gmail.com
Sun Jan 30 13:04:18 GMT 2005


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?

Rob
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