The Nautilus
file
manager provides an integrated access point to your files, applications, and
FTP sites. To open a Nautilus
window, choose Applications -> Home Folder. The following figure shows a Nautilus
window that displays the contents of a folder.
A Nautilus
window contains the following
panes:
Enables you to navigate through your files. This pane also displays information about the current file or folder. The side pane is on the left side of the window.
Displays the contents of files and folders. The view pane is on the right side of the window.
Nautilus
enables you to do
the following:
View files and folders
You can view your files and folders as icons or as a list. You can view
the contents of some types of file within a Nautilus
window. Alternatively, you can open the files in the appropriate application
from Nautilus
.
Manage your files and folders
You can use Nautilus
to create, move, copy,
rename, and remove files and folders.
Run scripts
You can run scripts from Nautilus
, and you
can select files and folders on which to run your scripts.
Customize your files and folders
You can add emblems to your files and folders to indicate particular states. For example, you can add an Important emblem to a file to indicate that the file is important. You can also customize folders in the following ways:
Add a note to a folder.
Specify a custom background pattern for a folder.
Specify a zoom setting for a folder.
Nautilus
also creates the desktop.
To navigate to the folder where the file that you want to open resides, double-click on the folder icons in the view pane. When the file that you want to open is displayed, double-click on the file icon to open the file.
You can move files between folders by opening two or more Nautilus
windows. Open a different folder in each window, then
drag the files from one window to the other.