Nautilus acting up

[rikona]

Hello Ralf,

Saturday, December 10, 2016, 1:16:19 AM, Ralf 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. 

Your comments about workflow were very interesting. I started
exploring some split window file managers and found that they really
do improve my workflow significantly once I learned about their
additional capabilities. It is easier and faster than most of the
copy/paste operations I have been doing. Thank you for the
comment/suggestion.

> 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.

I tried this from several different file managers and it is possible
to drag and drop the text of the path into terminal. It even does
single quotes if there are spaces in the path name. Very useful, thank
you.

Earlier you mentioned that you like the MATE desktop. That was not
among the Ubuntu flavors that I had tried out originally, but based on
your favorable comments I decide to take a look at it. It is a VERY
nice desktop, and has a very nice sounding set of programs that either
come with it or are easily available in their software listings.

It is a very tempting alternative to the classic Ubuntu desktop. Does
this have as high a level of support as we have on this list? Would
questions about MATE be appropriate for this list?

And, perhaps most important, would that desktop be as sensitive to the
installation of other KDE etc pgms as my Ubuntu desktop, and result in
a similar set of problems?

You have made a number of comments and suggestions that were quite
helpful, and I'd like to thank you VERY much for doing so!

-- 

 rikona