Showing posts with label nautilus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label nautilus. Show all posts

20 May 2014

578. More Gnome issues -- semi-rant

I was able to get on with work in spite of transitioning to gnome 3 -- but only thanks to the frippery extensions:
http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2011/11/debian-testing-64-bit-gnome-3gnome.html 
http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2013/04/402-very-briefly-what-i-forgot-about.html

And then gnome-screenshot got crippled, but I managed to cope with that by patching it:
http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2012/06/fixing-gnome-screenshot-341-in-debian.html

I'm using debian testing (jessie) on my laptop and since I normally don't do much on it other than occasionally log into work to check on jobs I have been able to ignore the issues that are so apparent in gnome 3.12, two of which are:

*  gnome-terminal doesn't have a transparent background option since ersion 3.8 -- instead of being able to read what's underneath (e.g. a blog post with a how-to), and thus making good use of the screen real estate, my laptop screen is now feeling very, very small.

[And the developer seems to have the usual gnome attitude issue: https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=698544 ]

gnome-terminal 3.12
 There's basically nothing that has forced me to stay with gnome-terminal, so switching terminals was a simple matter of installing xfce4-terminal instead, which looks pretty much like gnome-terminal used to. Besides, I use guake more of the time anyway.

xfce4-terminal

 * you can't resize 'native' gnome programs, such as nautilus, that are in full-screen mode. Well, you can -- by holiding super (i.e. windows button) + down arrow. But the icons in the top right corner are no longer, and I find that incredibly annoying.
Nautilus. Nautilus shows when dropbox is synced -- thunar doesn't.

Thunar -- like nautilus of days gone by
 There are two things that I need from nautilus (other than working as a filemanager, of course, and allowing me to open terminals where I want which is something thunar supports 'out of the box') -- the ability to batch resize images, and dropbox. Now, dropbox has nothing to do with nautilus and the dropbox server will run happily in the background whether you're using a file manager or not. It would be nice if thunar would show whether the dropbox folder is synced or not, but it's hardly crucial.

Image resizing is a different matter since we maintain our own little website with personal photos for overseas members of our families. Ergo, it's crucial.

Luckily, this is pretty easy:
sudo apt-get install simple-image-reducer

Go to Edit/Configure custom actions... and set command to simple-image-reducer %F, and scope to apply to images, as shown in the screenshots.





I'm sure there are lots of other small issues in gnome 3.12 that I either keep missing or wilfully ignore in the interest of maintaining a low blood pressure. The whole idea of removing features that are actually useful with no way of re-enabling them smacks of 'we know better than you', and that irks me.

25 December 2013

538. Briefly: Sort folders before files in nautilus 3.8

I'm running debian jessie (current testing) on my laptop and after having held off upgrading for a while since I had to take it to a conference and didn't want to risk ending up with a broken system, I finally took the leap. I notice that there are a lot of references to systemd in dmesg, but haven't had a look at what it actually means -- are we past init and fully switched to systemd now? Or how do I go about modifying my network configuration if I can't use /etc/network/interfaces?

Anyway, one annoying little thing is that in Nautilus the folder content by default is arranged in alphabetical order, regardless of whether it's a file or a directory. The old behaviour was to arrange folders in alphabetical order, then files.

Here's how to get it back to 'normal' behaviour:
 
The new behaviour
Click on the 'Files' menu on the top desktop bar, select preferences:
Check 'Sort folders before files' to get back the normal behaviour
Check sort folders before files to make Nautilus behave well again

14 June 2013

451. Seahorse plugins on gnome 3.4 -- PGP encrypting/decrypting in nautilus

Once upon a time it was possible to de/encrypt in gedit, and life was good. Then GNOME 3 came along, and the seahorse plugin for edit disappeared. (presumably you might be able to write a script to use with the External Tools gedit plugin).

It re-emerged as a plugin for Nautilus instead.

I'm showing version 3.4.0 since I'm on GNOME 3.4, and who knows what API has broken in between this and 3.8...anyway, look at https://git.gnome.org/browse/seahorse-nautilus/ for different versions.

There are probably more build dependencies than the ones I'm listing.

sudo apt-get install libcryptui-dev libnautilus-extension-dev libgpgme11-dev checkinstall autoconf automake checkinstall
wget https://git.gnome.org/browse/seahorse-nautilus/snapshot/seahorse-nautilus-3.4.0.tar.gz
tar xvf seahorse-nautilus-3.4.0.tar.gz 
cd seahorse-nautilus-3.4.0/
./autogen.sh
GnuPG Version: gpg (GnuPG) 1.4.12 GPGME Version: 1.2.0 Notification Support: yes Now type `make' to compile seahorse-nautilus
sudo checkinstall --fstrans=no
- Maintainer: [ root@beryllium ] 1 - Summary: [ seahorse-nautilus 3.4.0 ] 2 - Name: [ seahorse-nautilus ] 3 - Version: [ 3.4.0 ] 4 - Release: [ 1 ] 5 - License: [ GPL ] 6 - Group: [ checkinstall ] 7 - Architecture: [ amd64 ] 8 - Source location: [ seahorse-nautilus-3.4.0 ] 9 - Alternate source location: [ ] 10 - Requires: [ ] 11 - Provides: [ seahorse-nautilus ] 12 - Conflicts: [ ] 13 - Replaces: [ ]

Encrypting:
Open nautilus, select a text file and right click:




Decrypting:
Simple:

Although in my case I had kde-full installed, which pulled in kgpg:

If you're having other issues with decrypting, check that the mime associations are correct:

xdg-mime query filetype plaintext.file.pgp 
application/pgp-encrypted

26 November 2012

284. Fix for: nautilus-open-terminal opens in $HOME

Update: due to a change in the exec-arg, if you followed the instruction here you now can't open the terminal (using nautilus) at all if you've upgraded to nautilus 3.4.2. Look at this post to fixing it: http://verahill.blogspot.com.au/2012/12/another-nautilus-open-terminal-related.html
Everything should now work perfectly.

Original post:
This has been bothering me for the past week or so: if I use nautilus-open-terminal (i.e. right-click in nautilus and select open in terminal) it now always opens in $HOME instead of in the directory I want it to open in.

 Apparently I'm not the only one: http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=692518

Luckily the solution is quick and simple: run this in your terminal, then open a new nautilus window:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.terminal exec gnome-terminal