nautilus-terminal 3.0.1

A terminal embedded in Nautilus, the GNOME's file browser

A terminal embedded in Nautilus, the GNOME’s file browser

Nautilus Terminal is a terminal embedded into Nautilus, the GNOME’s file browser. It is always opened in the current folder, and follows the navigation (the cd command is automatically executed when you navigate to an other folder).

NOTE: This is a complete re-implementation of my previous Nautilus Temrinal plugin.

NOTE²: This is an early development version, some feature are missing (see below).

Features:

• Embed a Terminal in each Nautilus tab / window,

• Follow the navigation: if you navigate in Nautilus, the cd command is automatically executed in the terminal,

• Detects running process: if something is running in the terminal, the cd command is not send to the shell,

• Automatically respawn the shell if it exits,

• Supports copy / paste from / to the terminal using Ctrl+Shift+C / Ctrl+Shift+V,

• Can be displayed / hidden using the F4 key,

• [STRIKEOUT:Supports drag & drop of file on the terminal,] TODO

• [STRIKEOUT:Allows to configure the shell] TODO (actually it is hardcoded to /bin/zsh),

• [STRIKEOUT:Allows to configure the terminal appearance (colors, font,…).] TODO

Requirements:

• nautilus-python

• psutil

Nautilus Temrinal Screenshot

Installing Nautilus Terminal

From PYPI

Run the following command (as root):

pip install nautilus_terminal

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

nautilus -q

From sources

Clone the repositiory:

git clone [e-mail]:flozz/nautilus-terminal.git
cd nautilus-terminal

Install Nautilus Terminal (as root):

python setup.py install

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

nautilus -q

NOTE: if the setup fails to install the Nautilus Python extension script, you can copy it manually (as root):

cp nautilus_terminal/nautilus_terminal_extension.py /usr/share/nautilus-python/extensions/

Hacking and Debug

If you want work on this software, you will first have to install the nautilus-python and psutil packages. On Debian / Ubuntu, you will find it in the python-nautilus and python-psutil packages:

sudo apt install python-nautilus python-psutil

Then you have to copy the nautilus_terminal_extension.py file in the nautilus-python’s extension folder (this script is just a minimal bootstrap that will import the nautilus_terminal module installed system wild or the one located in this repository if the right debug environment is set). This can be done by one of the script of the tools/ folder:

./tools/update-locale-extention.sh

You can now hack Nautilus Terminal as you want and you can use the following script to test your code right into nautilus:

./tools/debug-in-nautilus.sh
./tools/debug-in-nautilus.sh --no-bg  # keep Nautilus attached to the console

Happy hacking! :)

Changelog

• 3.0.1: Script to convert the README to reStructuredText for PYPI

• 3.0.0: Initial Nautilus Temrinal 3 release (early development version)

License GPLv3

Nautilus Terminal - A terminal embedded in the Nautilus file browser
Copyright (C) 2010-2017  Fabien LOISON <http://www.flozz.fr/>

This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
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MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
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