A couple of questions from a new user

[Sven Wagschal]

Ian Hogben schrieb:
> Even though I used KDE in the past, I always used nautilus. It rocks.
>  only, I am just about ready to throw my laptop through the window. 
> If > I open 20 different directories, then 20 DIFFERENT WINODWS OPEN.
>  Crazy stuff. Is there an easy way to turn this feature off, or do I
>  have to hack the configs manually?

Introduced with Gnome 2.6, this is called spatial mode, simulating the
behaviour of the classical Mac OS (pre-X). (There was an usability
article an ars technica discussing the behaviour of the Finder
in X compared to that of the classical Finder and outlining the
advantages of spatial mode.) By default you do not have a file browser
any longer, but instead open any directory as folder in its own window. 
To revert to the old Nautilus you can either open a directory by 
right-clicking it and choosing "Open in Browser-Window", producing the 
old Nautilus-in-Browser-Mode. (It is even possible to create a Nautilus 
File Browser entry in the programs menu with the command nautilus 
--browser /home/yourname for example.) Or you can disable spatial mode 
completely in System-Tools -> Gconf-Editor -> nautilus -> preferences ->
always_use_browser.