Finding Nautilus - newbie

[Lindsay]

I'm afraid whatever you suggested in this post I could not follow.
Linz

On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 13:23 +0000, david wrote:
> On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 13:00, David M. Carney wrote:
> > On Mon, 2005-02-21 at 01:42 +1300, Lindsay wrote:
> > >By right clicking I got a menu that allowed Open Terminal, Open Launcher
> > >and some others (not Nautilis),  but nothing with left click and ctrl l.
> > >
> > >On Sun, 2005-02-20 at 12:17 +0000, david wrote:
> > >> click on the desktop and then type Ctrl + l and then type ~ in the window and 
> > >> press enter.
> > >> 
> > >> regards
> > >> David
> > >> 
> > >> (It may be possible to assign a key stroke combination to this but I'm not 
> > >> sure.)
> > >> 
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > Click anywhere on the desktop. Not on a running program.
> > 
> > A menu will not appear, but after clicking, you can hold down the ctrl
> > key and press the l key (both at the same time). A dialog box should pop
> > up.
> > 
> > Then release them and press the ~ key. and press the enter key.
> > 
> > David
> > 
> > -- 
> > Registered Linux User #297958
> > 
> > http://carney1979.blogspot.com/
> > 
> > 
> Yupp,
> Apologies, I didn't explain it properly.
> 
> You need to click on the Desktop because the default mouse/cursor mode
> is "click to raise", in other words, the last window you were working in
> remains active even when the cursor moves away from it and will do so
> until you click somewhere else or return to it. The UNIX standard
> (afaik) is "focus follows mouse" so to make another window (or the
> desktop) "active" you just need to move the cursor over it. The
> difference being that when you click on an open application window it
> comes to the top (if you have more than one open), whereas with the UNIX
> way the window becomes active but "stays where it is" and doesn't come
> to the top. It's quicker to work with once you've got the hang of it and
> if you know what state the active window is in you can input to it
> without it needing to be uppermost. You can access the options for this
> in the Preferences > Windows dialogue.(Where you can also set the title
> bar of windows to roll up when you double click on them - a great little
> space saver.)
> 
> regards
> 
> David
> 
>