in nautilus list view, with the window full of files it's not possible to open a terminal

[Nicolò Chieffo]

Binary package hint: nautilus-open-terminal

Reproducible in this scenario
- use nautilus list view
- go to a directory full of files (such as /usr/bin)
- note that with right click you can't "open a terminal here"

a suggestion could be to add the option also to files.

ProblemType: Bug
DistroRelease: Ubuntu 10.10
Package: nautilus-open-terminal 0.18-1
ProcVersionSignature: Ubuntu 2.6.35-5.6-generic 2.6.35-rc3
Uname: Linux 2.6.35-5-generic x86_64
Architecture: amd64
Date: Wed Jun 23 12:34:11 2010
InstallationMedia: Ubuntu 10.04 LTS "Lucid Lynx" - Release amd64 (20100429)
ProcEnviron:
 LANGUAGE=en_US:en
 PATH=(custom, user)
 LANG=it_IT.utf8
 SHELL=/bin/bash
SourcePackage: nautilus-open-terminal

[Alf (hubbuntu)]

File > Open In Terminal works to open a terminal in the current directory.

I think it would be useful to add a button to the Nautilus toolbar, and make "Open In Terminal" show up in the contextual menu when right-clicking on files as well.

[Alf (hubbuntu)]

Related: a question about how to add "Open in Terminal" to the Nautilus toolbar was asked on answers.launchpad.net: https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus-open-terminal/+question/84549

[Alf (hubbuntu)]

Related: there are several "Open Terminal Here" applications for OS X that can be added to the Finder toolbar, e.g. http://www.etresoft.org/shellhere.html

[Launchpad Janitor (janitor)]

Status changed to 'Confirmed' because the bug affects multiple users.

[Matthäus Brandl (matthaeus)]

This problem persists in Ubuntu 14.04.1.
Additionally I can't find any "Open in Terminal" option neither in File nor in Edit as indicated by Alf or this bug: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus-open-terminal/+bug/398151

[Laurent Dinclaux (dreadlox)]

Confirmed in 15.10 too.

No "Open in Terminal" option in File

[Laurent Dinclaux (dreadlox)]

Workarounds:

- open terminal with a shortcut, see: http://askubuntu.com/a/72222/27469

- or use the context menu key: http://askubuntu.com/a/550425/27469

[Michael Gras (virtualmischa)]

This is no bug in nautilus-open-terminal package. The problem is that nautilus does not provide an empty area to right click on which selects the current folder. In case, the folder is not full, you can click on the empty area to get the context menu of the current folder.

Other file managers, e.g. Windows Explorer select an item only if you click on its name. Having this behaviour you always find some empty space to get the context menu of the current folder.

[Michael Gras (virtualmischa)]

This issue is known to the Nautilus maintainers. Currently, there are discussions going on how to improve the current behavior.
https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=689768

[Allan W. Macdonald (allan-w-macdonald)]

This issue still exists in Gnome Files 3.26.4 under Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.