nautilus-open-any-terminal 0.5.1

an extension for nautilus, which adds an context-entry for opening other terminal emulators than gnome-terminal.

nautilus-open-any-terminal

is an extension for nautilus, which adds an context-entry for opening other terminal emulators than gnome-terminal.

Supported Terminal Emulators

Right now the plugin is limited to these terminal emulators. If one is missing please open an issue.

• alacritty
• blackbox
• cool-retro-term
• deepin-terminal
• foot/footclient
• gnome-terminal
• guake
• hyper
• kermit
• kgx (GNOME Console)
• kitty
• konsole
• mate-terminal
• mlterm
• ptyxis
• qterminal
• rio
• sakura
• st
• tabby
• terminator
• terminology
• terminus
• termite
• tilix
• urxvt
• urxvtc
• warp
• wezterm
• xfce4-terminal
• xterm/uxterm

Installing

From the AUR (Arch Linux)

yay -S nautilus-open-any-terminal

Nixpkgs (NixOS)

nix-env -iA nixos.nautilus-open-any-terminal

From PYPI

Dependencies to install before:

• nautilus-python (python-nautilus/python3-nautilus(newer) package on Debian / Ubuntu)
• gir1.2-gtk-4.0 (Debian / Ubuntu)

User install:

pip install --user nautilus-open-any-terminal

System-wide install:

pip install nautilus-open-any-terminal

From source

git clone https://github.com/Stunkymonkey/nautilus-open-any-terminal.git
cd nautilus-open-any-terminal
make

make install schema      # User install
sudo make install schema # System install

restart nautilus

Then kill Nautilus to allow it to load the new extension:

nautilus -q

Settings

To configure the plugin’s behaviour make sure to run (system-wide):

glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

or for (user-wide) installation:

glib-compile-schemas ~/.local/share/glib-2.0/schemas/

via dconf-editor

via command-line

gsettings set com.github.stunkymonkey.nautilus-open-any-terminal terminal alacritty
gsettings set com.github.stunkymonkey.nautilus-open-any-terminal keybindings '<Ctrl><Alt>t'
gsettings set com.github.stunkymonkey.nautilus-open-any-terminal new-tab true
gsettings set com.github.stunkymonkey.nautilus-open-any-terminal flatpak system

Uninstall

Since setup.py does not provide a natively uninstall method the makefile has an uninstall option.

make uninstall scheme      # user uninstall
sudo make uninstall scheme # system uninstall