[NTLUG:Discuss] Convenient way to access nautilus

[Robert Pearson]

On 4/10/09, terry <trryhend at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 10, 2009 at 2:25 PM, Allen Meyers <texas.chef94 at gmail.com>wrote:
>
>  > Ok, not unusual for me. I am worlds worse about navigating gnome and file
>  > system is darn sure not my strong point.
>  > I have a media partition I need to access and write to. Need not a good
>  > word want.
>  > I did a ton research for the history of the town I live in and created
>  > their web Page. I used only a small amount of the info and the pictures, but
>  > I want to save them on a partition away from everything.
>  > http://www.worthamtx.com
>  > Give some idea. My limited understanding is one needs to use fire up gnome
>  > file mgr. or one of the others to access the folder partition resides in. If
>  > that is so then I need to know a way if there is one to bring it the file
>  > manager to desktop to have it hands. If there is a command line way easier
>  > give me that as well.
>  > Now to digress and tell you something really interesting. I had an
>  > experience re-installing 8.1o that I asked Ubuntu forum about and not one
>  > reply. Was not asking help just explain how it happened.
>  > I cleaned HD with gparted prior to re-install with stable live CD so nada
>  > on drive.
>  > I had dual boot with debian on external. Re-installed, booted and had 8.10
>  > had debian and had triple boot kubuntu jaunty on same partition as 8.10.
>  > 8.10 2.6.27.22 and 8.10 had 28. That is stranges thing that has happened to
>  > me thus far. When you boot kubuntu it the whole enchalida with all bells and
>  > whistles.
>  > Just thought that might interest you.
>  >
>  > Allen
>  >
>  > Allen Meyers
>  > texas.chef94 at gmail.com
>  >
>  >
>  Not sure but may be that you simply want a one-click way to bring up a file
>  manager with access to files on a separate partition.  If that is so, what
>  ever the mount point is, (the directory where those files reside), will be
>  what you want to use and may be just a symlink to the desktop will do what
>  you want.
>    ln -s /path/to/files ~/Desktop

I wonder what I am missing here?
I used Ubuntu 8.10 for and a while and it looked just like 8.04 for "nautilus".
On my Ubuntu 8.04 in the top left menu bar there is a label named "Places".
If I click on "Places" a menu drops down with a bunch of choices. The
first one is "Home Folder". If I click on that it brings up a
"Nautilus" window showing my Home folder just like Windows Explorer
(the default Windows File Manager) does.
Most of the other choices in that drop down menu use Nautilus to go to
and display other places on my computer. Very handy...

You can check and see if "nautilus" is installed by using Synaptic
Package Manager (SPM) from the top tool bar
"System>Administration>Synaptic Package Manager" choice.
After SPM finishes its startup, click on "Search" in the toolbar at
the top of the SPM window.
Type "nautilus" in the little popup window and click "Search" on the
little popup window.
After the search completes, scroll down in the big SPM window  and
look for "nautilus". If it has a "green" square next to it in the
first column it is installed.
Then click properties on the toolbar just above the big window where
"nautilus" is displayed and a small window will pop up with a complete
list of the files in the "nautilus" package. One of them is
"/usr/bin/nautilus". This is the executable to start nautilus. Opening
a terminal and typing /usr/bin/nautilus should start the "nautilus"
window.
If all the other methods fail and this executable is present you can
use it to create an icon and start "nautilus" by clicking the icon.