Nautiterm is an extension to the Nautilus file manager that opens a terminal window of your choice at the location of the selected folder.
The functionality is almost identical to other similar extensions, as well as
to the functionality provided by the Nautilus integration of Gnome Terminal,
available e.g. on Fedora as the gnome-terminal-nautilus package.
However, Nautiterm can be configured to open the terminal emulator of your choice.
The default is still to open Gnome Terminal.
The extension requires the following:
- Python bindings for the Nautilus Extension Framework (nautilus-python)
- PyGObject, i.e. Python bindings for the GObject library
- PyYAML
On Fedora you can install the dependencies with the following command:
sudo dnf install nautilus-python python3-yaml
On Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, the following command should install the dependencies:
sudo apt install python3-nautilus python3-yaml
On Ubuntu 18.04 LTS, use the Python 2 versions of the dependencies instead:
sudo apt install python-nautilus python-yaml
You can install the extension by copying the file open_terminal.py from
the src/nautiterm folder into the Nautilus Python extensions folder, which
is located at $HOME/.local/share/nautilus-python/.
Running the following commands in the root folder of the Nautiterm repository
will copy the file into the correct location:
mkdir -p $HOME/.local/share/nautilus-python/extensions cp src/nautiterm/open_terminal.py $HOME/.local/share/nautilus-python/extensions
After installing the extension, shut down Nautilus:
nautilus -q
The extension should be enabled the next time Nautilus is started, e.g. by opening a folder.
You can uninstall the extension by removing the extension file:
rm $HOME/.local/share/nautilus-python/extensions/open_terminal.py
Right-click on a folder in Nautilus, or on the empty background of an opened folder, and the context menu should contain an option for opening a terminal at the location.
Out of the box with no configuration, Nautiterm opens a new Gnome Terminal
window. To have it open a different terminal emulator, add a file named
$HOME/.config/nautiterm.yml, with the following contents:
terminal: terminal_program
where terminal_program should be replaced with the executable name of your
desired terminal. For example, to have Nautilus open Terminator instead of
Gnome Terminal, the configuration would usually be
terminal: /usr/bin/terminator
In the above, $HOME refers to your home directory. On Linux, the correct
full name of the configuration file would typically be
/home/YOUR_USERNAME_HERE/.config/nautiterm.yml.
There is no localization support yet.
The code is based on example code for the Python bindings for Nautilus extensions.
The copyright to the original source code is owned by its original authors.
Modifications to the original code:
© Mika Wahlroos (mika.wahlroos@iki.fi), 2019-2020
Released under the GNU General Public License, version 2.