Re: Nautilus: Vital need for xterm in current working directory. Can you help?

[Pete Sahm <sahm dreamscape com>]

Are scripts out of favor, or is this just another way of doing things?
I'm running Gnome 2.2 (built with Garnome on 20 Feb) on RH 7.3. I have
been using a script and decided to try this app-reg. Here is what I have
found...

Difference between this and using a script:

- This places an "open with terminal" button in the left pane when in
"information view" the script does not.

- this uses Nautilus to allows customizations for users that get the
menu item, script is current user only (unless manually placed in all
script dirs)

- this requires clicking on a folder icon to be able to open a new term,
the script allows right clicking in the folder's contents and getting a
term at the folder

- this doesn't give the extra $NAUTILUS_xxx vars that the script does (a
mixed blessing, as the NAUTILUS_xxx vars sometimes wreak havok on my Ant
scripts for some odd reason - and appear only to do so when I open a
term when right clicking on a folder icon)

I normally run Nautilus with tree view/details for the left/right panes
which makes it nice for jumping between directories.

Some similarities:

- both require 2 clicks to get a term from the pop-up menu (a root level
item would be nice)

- neither give (I think due to Nautilus?) a pop-up menu on in tree view
(this would be the best thing since sliced bread, IMHO)

For reference, the script I use is:

#!/bin/sh
# From Chris Picton
# Replaces a Script by Martin Enlund

# This script either opens in the current directory, 
# or in the selected directory

base=`echo $NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_CURRENT_URI | cut -d'/' -f3-`
#if [ -z "$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS" ]; then
if [ -z "$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_URIS" ]; then
     dir=$base
else 
     while [ ! -z "$1" -a ! -d "$base/$1" ]; do shift; done
     dir="$base/$1"
fi

gnome-terminal --working-directory="$dir"

Pete

On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 16:02, gabor wrote:
> On Tue, 2003-05-13 at 14:59, Paul Johnson wrote:
> > In Gnome-2.2 (from RedHat 9) I am stumped. In Nautilus, users can 
> > navigate to directories, but have no way to open up xterms for commands 
> > when they get there?
> > 
> http://gnomesupport.org/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1540
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Pete Sahm <sahm dreamscape com>