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01-15-2007, 12:08 PM
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what is nautilus
Hi,
you might have read my other threads in this forum regarding getting ubuntu to recognize an external hdd. I have read on the net that my hdd should show up in nautilus.
I am wondering,.. what is nautilus?
How do I open nautilus? (a step by step guide would be extremely helpful as i really am a newbie to ubuntu)
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01-15-2007, 12:10 PM
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The Nautilus was the submarine in "20 thousand leagues under the sea"
the default file manger for Gnome is named Nautilus, it also draws the desktop & desktop icons...
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01-15-2007, 12:14 PM
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how do i access/open nautilus?
ps. thanks for the quick reply
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01-15-2007, 12:16 PM
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click on your home folder, I suppose
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01-15-2007, 07:27 PM
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Originally Posted by Okie
The Nautilus was the submarine in "20 thousand leagues under the sea"
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A Nautilus is also a type of shell. The name Nautilus is a clever (?) pun on this since it is kind of like a shell.
As previously mentioned, Nautilus is the program that opens when you click your home folder. You can open it from a terminal, simply by typing "nautilus". Incidentially, Nautilus also places the icons on your desktop.
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01-16-2007, 05:30 PM
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If you want a Windows analogy, it's Nautilus is like Windows Explorer (READ: Windows Explorer, NNNNNOOOOOOTTTT Internet Explorer, which is entirely different).
Nautilus will be used whenever you view a directory in Gnome. It's sort of like KDE's Konqueror, but without the web-browser functionality and a lot of the KIOSlaves.
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