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Nautilus

Nautilus is the official file manager for the Gnome desktop environment. It is designed to be primarly a file manager, but there are support for web and file viewing too. This page is meant to help you find information about Nautilus.

How to get a root nautilus

Open GKsu or another way get root and type nautilus in the terminal (in Gnome). The opened nautilus is a root file manager.

Mime

The Gnome Nautilus Mime Type configuration tool will also define mime types for Mozilla. The configuration tool /usr/bin/gnome-file-types-properties will edit the following user configuration files:

• $HOME/.gnome/mime-info/user.keys: List mime types and the associated application/viewer.
• $HOME/.gnome/mime-info/user.mime: Mime types and the associted file extention

System values:

• /usr/share/mime-info/gnome.mime

Note: This is old and outdated info for GNOME <= 2.4. Since 2.8 GNOME fully supports the freedesktop.org standards. This info needs to be updated.

See also

• nautilus

• http://www.gnome.org/projects/nautilus/

• Free desktop standard : shared mime info spec.

• http://directory.fsf.org/GNU/nautilus.html

• http://g-scripts.sourceforge.net/

• http://www.alextreme.org/phpwiki/index.php/root%20Nautilus

• http://www.linuxplanet.com/linuxplanet/previews/2285/1/

• http://www.workthatmouse.com/software/

• http://thomas.apestaart.org/projects/nautilus-media/