Meme: First thing I do after installing (insert your distro here)

Obviously, my distro is Fedora, but for those of you who might choose something else, let’s play along.

This meme comes from Valent Turkovic’s blog post a few days ago, so I thought I’d share mine.

$ su -c 'yum install nautilus-open-terminal'

This enables me to right click on the desktop and click ‘Open in Terminal’. This is much better than choosing ‘Applications -> System Tools -> Terminal’, which in my opinion is a big pain in the ass!

While it used to open in the user’s home directory, now it opens in their Desktop.  Not sure of the benefit for that, but I’m glad it’s still around.

Cheers,

Herlo

Posted on November 5, 2008 at 1:54 am by herlo · Permalink
In: Fedora, Guru, Install, Tech · Tagged with: , ,

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  1. Written by nicu
    on November 5, 2008 at 4:48 am
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    1, this is also one of the first things I do.

    The benefit is that if you open the terminal from one Nautilus window (instead from the desktop) , the terminal will be opened in that directory.

  2. Written by Paul W. Frields
    on November 5, 2008 at 6:30 am
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    @Clint: You can change that behavior using the GConf key:

    gconftool-2 –set –type=bool /apps/nautilus-open-terminal/desktop_opens_home_dir true

  3. Written by The Grand Fallacy » Opening terminal from desktop.
    on November 5, 2008 at 6:43 am
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    [...] Clint, the nautilus-open-terminal package may be (sadly?) one of my proudest achievements in doing something technical in Fedora. [...]

  4. Written by suriem
    on November 5, 2008 at 8:02 am
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    bash completion comes first im my list. ;)

  5. Written by Kulbir Saini
    on November 5, 2008 at 12:25 pm
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    @Suriem 1

  6. Written by Kam Leo
    on January 16, 2009 at 1:03 pm
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    Add myself to the wheel group and run visudo to enable the wheel group.

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