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Nautilus-Open-Terminal : Nautilus Plugin To Open Terminal From Anywhere
Does your work involve hopping between GUI and command line? Do you get frustrated while typing your way into the directories on command line? Well, if that is the case, you must try nautilus plug-in – nautilus-open-terminal.
Nautilus-Open-Terminal
Nautilus-Open-Terminal is a nautilus plug-in that lets you open a terminal from anywhere. This is especially helpful in a case when you are inside a directory that contains subdirectories and you want to do a command line operation inside a particular subdirectory. For this case, if you have this plug-in installed, all you need to do is to right-click on that particular subdirectory and click on the option Open in Terminal.
Here is an example:
Now, once you click on Open in Terminal option, a terminal will open up with the directory you just right clicked as the current working directory.
So you can see that how easy is it for you to jump from GUI to command line using this plugin.
Download/Install
Here are some of the important links related to this plugin :
I first tried to download and install this package through Ubuntu Software Centre but got an error saying that some of the dependencies are missing on my system. I then tried through command line but got the same error. Then I used the command sudo apt-get -f install to fulfil the missing dependencies and then used Ubuntu Software Centre to download and install the plug-in.
Pros
Well, it’s a small package that can save a lot of your time while hopping between command line and GUI.
Cons
Had to resolve the dependency errors before downloading and installing the plug-in
Conclusion
I would recommend this plug-in to everyone as there are all positives of having it. You will feel the difference once you get used to it.
via: http://mylinuxbook.com/nautilus-open-terminal-nautilus-plugin-to-open-terminal-from-anywhere/