Nautilus acting up

[Ralf Mardorf]

On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 10:16:19 +0100, Ralf Mardorf wrote:
>On Sat, 10 Dec 2016 08:30:28 +0000, Colin Law wrote:
>>On 9 December 2016 at 23:52, rikona <rikona at sonic.net> wrote:  
>>> ...
>>> It does not paste into terminal, though,
>>> but I'm not sure it ever did that.    
>>
>>To copy from gnome-terminal use Ctrl+Shift+C and to paste
>>Ctrl+Shift+V. Ctrl+C does something completely different in the
>>terminal of course.  
>
>I prefer to use right click menus, when using GUI terminals. Assuming
>a GUI terminal provides a menu bar, usually the edit menu could be
>used, too. However, depending on what you want to copy from a file
>manager to a terminal, consider to use a file manager that provides
>this, without copy and paste. Apart from tools you could create and
>assign to short cuts, spacefm by default e.g. opens a terminal of the
>location shown in the path bar, if you push F4. When using rodent as
>file manager, you don't need a terminal at all, just type a command.
>IIRC a KDE file manager could split its window and view a terminal,
>that follows each path change you're doing with the file manager, but
>this is nothing compared to spacefm tools, let alone what rodent
>provides. I'm in favour of spacefm, but most if the times I don't use
>a file manager, most of the times I'm just using a terminal. The most
>advanced combination of a file manager and a terminal for sure is
>rodent. To copy and paste from a file manager to a terminal and vice
>versa most likely indicates, that you don't use the tool, that fits
>best to your work-flow. There usually should be no need to copy and
>paste between a file manager and a terminal. If this happens very
>seldom, it's ok, but if it should happen not that seldom, then another
>tool, most liekely another file manager fits better to your needs,
>resp. the file manager you are already using, might provide some
>features, but you perhaps aren't aware of them. 

PS: FWIW drag'n'drop from a file manager to a GUI terminal, to at
least copy a path, not a file or dir, just the text of the path, should
work, too. It at least does work from spacefm to roxterm. Click the
file, move the mouse to the terminal, release the mouse key.