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Nine things you should know about Nautilus

Nautilus
Nautilus

The Nautilus program in GNOME is not only the default file manager, it creates and manages the desktop. While it looks simple on the surface, there is a lot of hidden power under the shell. The latest version of Nautilus is 2.14.0, which is included in Fedora Core 5. That's the one I poked with a stick.

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Useful article, regular docs seem thin

Nautilus has a *lot* of features that I consider underdocumented - or at least it's really hard to find the documentation on them. The scripts item was a good one - didn't know that. Knowing that you need to set up /etc/samba/smb.conf to get Windows browsing to work properly is also something that I've never seen documented. Is there a Nautilus FAQ and/or HOWTO somewhere?