Nautilus is GNOME’s default file manager application, and you may have seen it in many Linux distributions. It’s a good file manager with plenty of features.

However, you can enhance your experience by employing some tweaks and tips.

In this video, I share 13, actually 14 with the bonus, tips.

Check them out and see which ones are suitable for you.

Detailed text could be find here: https://itsfoss.com/nautilus-tips-tweaks/

Yet, let me share the commands you saw in the video:

Commands

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Tip 4. Completely wipe files and folders from the disk

sudo apt install nautilus-wipe

Tip 5. Enable quick file preview

sudo apt install gnome-sushi

Tip 8. Rotate and Resize images with a right click

sudo apt install imagemagick nautilus-image-converter

Tip 9. Change the colors of individual folders

sudo apt install folder-color

Tip 12. Open files and folder as root from the file manager

sudo apt install nautilus-admin

Tip 13. Verify hash checksum of files

sudo apt install nautilus-gtkhash

Bonus Tip: Embed a terminal

sudo apt install python3-nautilus python3-psutil python3-pip libglib2.0-bin dconf-editor
sudo pip3 install nautilus-terminal
sudo nautilus-terminal –install-system
nautilus -q

Enjoy Linux

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Created by… Team It’s FOSS

Sreenath: screencast and text
Abhishek: Voice over
Rohini: Editing

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