"Open in terminal" should have a keyboard shortcut

[Alfredo Pironti]

It would be nice (wishlist) to be able to open a terminal from nautilus with a keyboard shortcut.

Unfortunately, CTRL-T is already bound to "Move to Trash". Maybe CTRL-SHIFT-T may be good?

Moreover, the package may be installed by default on fresh Ubuntu installations, since it is not
intrusive, but adds a smart functionality.

[Hooya (tjbassoon)]

I second this feature request. In general I think it's silly that Alt+F2 is default binding for "run application" but there's no default binding for "run a terminal". Considering we do so much in the terminal I think we all create our own binding for it, but there should be a standard, default keyboard shortcut to open a terminal.

[evgen (evgen-alice-dsl)]

There must be a keyboard short-cut for, which is corresponding to menu and pop-up item "Open Terminal Here".
KDE has a short-cut F4 for this purpose in Konqueror!
OpenSuse, for example, has this feature by default integrated in GNOME!

Can you please integrate this in nautilus-open-terminal package?

I am ready to test it.

[Holger Berndt (berndth)]

The upstream bug was http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577139, and it's fixed in the repo.

Nautilus still doesn't allow extensions to register shortcuts (which has conflict potential with builtin shortcuts or other extensions), but now users can assign a shortcut themselves.

[Andrea De Pasquale (depasquale-andrea)]

Working now in Ubuntu 9.04 (GNOME 2.26) and 9.10 (GNOME 2.28). First check under System -> Preferences -> Appearance, switch to the "Interface" tab, then make sure that "Editable menu shortcut keys" is checked. Then open any instance of nautilus, click "File" menu, move the mouse over "Open in terminal", then click and hold left button. Now you can assign a shortcut, e.g. F4 or CTRL-SHIFT-T etc., then release mouse button.

[netman74501 (netman74501)]

Andrea,

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I have searched high and low, all over the Internet and your post is the first to actually answer the question of how to set F4 to open the current directory in a terminal window like KDE's Konqueror does. I found several other pages relating to the nautilus-open-terminal package but they all had no answer for setting a keyboard shortcut to do this... Thank you!

This page needs to be at the top of the page on Google... ;)

[Alfredo Pironti (alfredo.pironti)]

Just to be more precise, you don't need to click and hold left button over the menu. The steps you need to do are (from https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=577139):

1. set /desktop/gnome/interface/can_change_accels true (gconf editor); or go to System -> Preferences -> Appearance, switch to the "Interface" tab and ensure "Editable menu shortcut keys" is checked
2. hover the mouse on menu entry (so it highlights)
3. press desired keyboard shortcut combination

To delete a previous combination, just press the "delete" key.

Hope this helps. I believe this bug can be closed now.

[Alexandre Campo (alexandre-campo)]

Sorry to come back on this, but I am using Lucid and I can not assign the shortcut to open terminal in nautilus.
First problem, there is no "interface" tab in system->preferences->appearance.
Second problem, setting desktop->gnome->interface->can_change_accels to true in gconf-editor has no
effect either.

For the moment I am simply unable to assign this shortcut. This seems to be true for any shortcut btw...
Did I miss something, or is it a bug ?

[Alexandre Campo (alexandre-campo)]

I tried again and it works with the standard menus, but not with the contextual menu.
Fair enough.

[netman74501 (netman74501)]

Thank you thank you thank you for this. I could not find an alternative to the system->preferences->appearance->interface tab until now. Your second solution of going to desktop->gnome->interface->can_change_accels in gconf-editor worked. So, thank you.

[Muflone (antani83)]

Andrea!! You just become my new hero.

I tried to write scripts that access nautilus variables, install any nautilus plugin... and all I had to do was type a "chord" on the option highlighted... Thank you so much... Or ``Grazie'' most likely...