nautilus-open-any-terminal

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

Supported file managers

• Nautilus
• Caja

Supported Terminal Emulators

The following terminal emulators are fully supported. PRs for other terminals are welcome!

• alacritty
• app2unit-term
• blackbox ( use blackbox-terminal for Debian)
• bobcat
• cool-retro-term
• contour
• cosmic-term
• deepin-terminal
• ddterm
• foot/footclient
• ghostty (requires gtk-single-instance = false in the Ghostty config, otherwise the working directory flag is ignored by a running instance)
• gnome-terminal
• guake
• kermit
• kgx (GNOME Console)
• kitty
• konsole
• mate-terminal
• mlterm
• ptyxis
• qterminal
• rio
• sakura
• st
• tabby
• terminator
• terminology
• terminus
• termite
• tilix
• urxvt
• urxvtc
• uwsm-terminal
• warp
• wezterm
• xfce4-terminal
• xterm/uxterm

Additionally, the terminal can be set to custom, which allows you to set custom commands for opening a local or remote terminal via dconf.

Installing

From the AUR (Arch Linux)

yay -S nautilus-open-any-terminal

Nixpkgs (NixOS)

For configuration.nix (works without needing to enable Gnome DE)

programs.nautilus-open-any-terminal = {
  enable = true;
  terminal = "kitty";
};

environment.systemPackages = with pkgs; [
  nautilus
];

From PYPI

Dependencies to install before:

• nautilus-python (python-nautilus/python3-nautilus(newer) package on Debian / Ubuntu)
• gir1.2-gtk-4.0 (Debian / Ubuntu)
• typelib-1_0-Gtk-4_0 (openSUSE)

User install:

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

System-wide install:

pip install nautilus-open-any-terminal

For Debian/Ubuntu based Distros

Download the '.deb' package from the GitHub releases page. Debian packages are automatically built and attached to each release via CI.

After downloading, install it with the apt command:

apt install <package_name>.deb

Or depending on your Linux Distro, you can just double-click the '.deb' file and install it that way.

For Fedora Copr

dnf copr enable monkeygold/nautilus-open-any-terminal
dnf install nautilus-open-any-terminal

From source

Requires gettext.

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

install installs this extension to extension directories of all supported file managers. To avoid this, use install-nautilus or install-caja instead.

make install-nautilus schema # Install nautilus only
make install-caja schema     # Install caja only

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

Each setting can be changed independently. Adjust the values to your liking:

gsettings set com.github.stunkymonkey.nautilus-open-any-terminal terminal alacritty         # your terminal app, e.g. terminator, gnome-terminal, kitty
gsettings set com.github.stunkymonkey.nautilus-open-any-terminal keybindings '<Ctrl><Alt>t' # GTK accelerator syntax; keep the angle brackets literal
gsettings set com.github.stunkymonkey.nautilus-open-any-terminal new-tab true               # true or false
gsettings set com.github.stunkymonkey.nautilus-open-any-terminal flatpak system             # system, none, or the flatpak app id

Uninstall

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

make uninstall schema      # user uninstall
sudo make uninstall schema # system uninstall