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Is there a task manager for elementary os freya?
elementary OS doesn't ship with a system monitor by default. I would recommend installing GNOME System Monitor from Software Center:
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Configure Files to use double click
If you prefer a (reversable) GUI option. You can install "elementary tweaks" to be able to toggle settings like this through the "System Settings" App.
To install in Freya (0.3):
sudo add-apt-...
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How do I create a simple SMB file share?
You need to install samba server and make some edits in its config file:
sudo apt-get install samba samba-common
After that you have to edit the file /etc/samba/smb.conf
Just add the following (of ...
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list of keyboard shortcuts for Files
Ok, i searched deeper into the source code for pantheon-files and found these :)
("win.quit", {"<Ctrl>Q"});
("win.new_window", {"<Ctrl>N"});
("win.undo", {"<Ctrl>Z"});
("win....
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Is there a task manager for elementary os freya?
If you want to use CLI, you can use htop.
Installation:
From Software Center
Or
From terminal:
sudo apt-get install htop
To start htop you have to run htop in terminal.
It can list all the ...
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Is there a task manager for elementary os freya?
One of the GUI-based task manager is LXTask
Lightweight, simple
Monitors processes
Can kill processes
Real GUI
Installation:
From Software Center
Or
From terminal:(If you are comfortable with ...
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Is there a way to create bookmark on Pantheon Files using terminal?
The simplest way I can think of is to write the location that you want to bookmark to the bookmarks file, for example:
echo "file:///home/user/location Place" >> ~/.config/gtk-3.0/bookmarks
Of ...
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How to hide partition from pantheon files?
Since you are already familiar with Disks and elementary OS is based on Ubuntu, why not use this application again?
Just open Software Center, search for Disks and install it.
start Disks
select the ...
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How can I opening a directory from the terminal in a new session?
It looks like xdg-open . is what you're looking for. I'm able to close Terminal without quitting Files.
The other Terminal output can be ignored
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Ask before running script from Pantheon Files
From what I can tell this dialogue is built into nemo and caja so no, not from pantheon files. you could try another filebrowser (there's lots), or file a bug on the bug tracker (seeing this dialogue ...
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Is there a pantheon-integrated encryption utility?
Use Gnome Encfs Manager. It's not an official elementary app, and it doesn't work from within Files, but it's worked really well for me. You can have the program launch at startup, or you can just ...
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Run Pantheon Files as root
Enter the following command in Terminal io.elementary.files-pkexec
In the old Files window, press ctrl+L to get your current path
In your new Files window, press ctrl+L, paste in the path you just ...
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Pantheon Integration of Google Drive
google-drive-ocamlfuse is what you want.
It integrates Google Drive as a removable drive into Pantheon Files and/or Nautilus. It is free too.
Find detailled info on how to set it up (and to ...
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Date/Time settings in Files
I believe you are encountering this bug. If so please login to launchpad and click 'affects me'. In the meantime, you can tell files to use 24hr format with iso mode:
gsettings set org.pantheon.files....
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How to display folder size in file explorer?
The devs should correct me, but I don't think this is possible. I think you will have to file a bug report on launchpad.
The reason will probably be that it requires a lot of disk reading to find the ...
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Color tags of Files
The colors are hard-coded at the moment in /libcore/gof-preferences.vala in the source tree so cannot be changed through the user interface or by changing a setting or config file.
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Is there a pantheon-integrated encryption utility?
Install seahorse and seahorse-contracts.
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:elementary-os/daily
sudo apt-get install seahorse seahorse-contracts
I recommend you remove the daily repo after installation to ...
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Pantheon-files support for bulk or batch renaming?
Pantheon-files does not currently support bulk renaming, however this feature is on the wishlist.
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How come Loki does not have the window snap feature?
What do you mean? Window snapping is definitely there in Loki (source: I'm using it right now on Chrome, snapped to full-screen).
Note that some windows have fixed, forced sizes, and therefore cannot ...
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How can I change label color for any entry in Files, using scripts?
Low-level sqlite approach
The file-color associations are stored in the ~/.config/marlin/marlin.db sqlite database. You can try to reverse-engineer the format, as far as I have seen, there is one ...
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More than ten search-results in Pantheon Files?
Actually this limit of 10 is hard-coded in the software code of pantheon-files (libwidgets/View/SearchResults.vala, lines 59-61)
const int MAX_RESULTS = 10;
const int MAX_DEPTH = 5;
const ...
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How can I add / renew CA cert's which pantheon-files is using?
Get the CA which is missing. In my case:go to lets encrypt web site (or any other missing CA cert site). Copy the CA in PEM format (the format that has ----BEGIN CERTIFICATE---- in it) into /usr/local/...
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how to make backspace work in 'files'
Alt left/right right is the keyboard shortcut for moving through history, just like in browsers.
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How can I disable sound effect of deleting files in Elementary OS 5?
You can use the Event Sounds option in the Sound settings to disable this sound.
In previous versions of Elementary OS this option didn't work. The old workaround is below.
I think the "Event Sounds"...
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How can I opening a directory from the terminal in a new session?
To detcach a program from a terminal simply run the command with a & at the end like this:
pantheon-files . &
Then simply press Ctrl + D and the terminal will close, leaving the program ...
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How can I repair permissions for the system backgrounds folder?
You have problem with permission, could you please output ls -ld /usr/share/backgrounds and ls -l /usr/share/backgrounds/ ?
Directory backgrounds should be 755
drwxr-xr-x 2 root root 4096 Nov 4 03:...
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"Open with" context menu option not remembering my selection and always showing Run no matter what
Using scratch-text-editor to write a simple lua script, these are seen as text files. When marked as "executable" I get the "Run" option, but the "Open With" menu offers text editors. If you do not ...
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What is the default home folder and bookmarks structure?
Here is a screenshot of Files after a fresh installation:
FYI, you could have seen it yourself by logging into a guest session :)
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How to replace file manager in elementary OS?
To replace file manager in freya:
Install other file manager, for example nautilus.
sudo apt-get install nautilus
To distinguish between Pantheon-files and nautilus, and to show nautilus in ...
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How to get right click menu when folder in column view
This is a known bug in the file manager.
In the list view you can click on the column header (the top bar, the one that says filename, size,...) to obtain the menu
...but for the column view such a ...
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