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How to COMPLETELY turn off system beep sounds forever for good for real
I do not know what sound KDE does, but if you mean system beep, just disable loading of the pcspkr module. As root do:
rmmod pcspkr ; echo "blacklist pcspkr" >>/etc/modprobe.d/...
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How to COMPLETELY turn off system beep sounds forever for good for real
Short of muting the sound entirely or disconnecting your headphones, there is no system-wide setting for events which will be followed by all applications. In your case especially, since you’re using ...
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How to COMPLETELY turn off system beep sounds forever for good for real
To mute Gnome alerts with dconf user-wide:
dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/sound/event-sounds "false"
Equivalently with gsettings:
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.sound event-sounds false
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How to use Nautilus as default in XFCE?
The reason Thunar starts by default in xfce is because xfce comes out of the box already in agreement with Thunar as it's default file manager. This dependency is not written in mimetype, but rather ...
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Drag and drop not working in Gnome3 file manager, selects multiple files instead
I found the problem, I unknowingly enabled the experimental new views option. Disabling it fixed the issue.
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Change Ubuntu 18.04 Nautilus context menu "Open in Terminal" from "Gnome-terminal" to "Tilix"
a) Run apt install filemanager-actions-nautilus-extension
b) Run FileManager-Actions Configuration Tool
c) File => New Action
d01) Action tab: Mark Display item in location context menu
d02) ...
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Can I mark files as recently-used from the command line?
The following Python script will add all the files given as arguments to the recently-used list, using GIO:
#!/usr/bin/python3
import gi, sys
gi.require_version('Gtk', '3.0')
from gi.repository ...
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nautilus: open-with but don't change default
This is a known bug
What you can do is:
right-click-open your file with a secondary application
right-click on the file and go to properties -> Open With
Set your default application here
It should ...
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What free tool does Nautilus use to extract RAR files?
Nautilus uses libarchive to process archives; this supports some RAR formats without any external helpers.
bsdtar is a command-line tool using the same library; in Debian it’s packaged as libarchive-...
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sort directories by last modified content (recursive)
The last modification time of a directory (think like phone directory, not folder) is the time it was last modified, like when an entry was removed, added or edited in that directory.
To find out the ...
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Set standard file browser for "open containing folder"
The following command solved this problem in arch linux:
xdg-mime default nautilus.desktop inode/directory
(Source: Arch Forums)
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What defines the "by relevance" sort criteria in Nautilus, and can it be changed?
Regarding the "relevance" algorithm, I looked at the Nautilus source code, and it appears that a file's relevance score is computed as a sum of scores based on how recently the file was ...
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Gnome, nautilus copy files to USB stops at 100% or near
Late to the party, but a workaround I use to copy big files to USB stick is rsync.
The basic syntax I always successfully use is the following:
rsync -avh /home/user/Documents /media/user/myusbstick
...
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How to print Metadata of a file with the help of command-line?
The actual meaning of generic "file metadata" would involve whatever information is not stored inside the file itself which is the data. It's data about the data.
Under such a meaning, ...
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How to change the titlebar height in standard GTK apps and those with headerbars/CSDs on Gnome 3.20
Update your ~/.config/gtk-3.0/gtk.css with following content:
/* shrink headerbars (don't forget semicolons after each property) */
headerbar {
min-height: 0px;
padding-left: 2px; /* same as ...
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Difference between sudo nautilus and sudo -E nautilus
The sudo manpage describes -E thus:
Indicates to the security policy that the user wishes to preserve their existing environment variables. The security policy may return an error if the user does ...
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How to drop/paste files into a folder using the 'Files' application (Nautilus)?
You can go to parent directory right click on desired directory and select "Paste into folder" or create a new tab then hold the shift and right click anywhere you want to paste.
The other option is ...
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Best way to check if Nautilus File Manager is running?
The best way to check whether there are any Nautilus windows open is to check for them on the session D-Bus:
gdbus introspect --session --dest org.gnome.Nautilus \
--object-path /org/gnome/...
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Change Ubuntu 18.04 Nautilus context menu "Open in Terminal" from "Gnome-terminal" to "Tilix"
The previous answers didn't work for me, but using python-nautilus did the trick (as seen here):
sudo apt update; sudo apt install python-nautilus
Create the file ~/.local/share/nautilus-python/...
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sort directories by last modified content (recursive)
In zsh, you could define a by_age_of_newest_file sort order function like:
zmodload zsh/stat
typeset -A newest_mtime newest_file
by_age_of_newest_file() {
local dir=${1-$REPLY}
local newest=($dir/*...
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Gnome, nautilus copy files to USB stops at 100% or near
Old question, but it seems as though the problem still comes up. Setting the buffer to 15MB as suggested here did not work on Ubuntu 19.04, and brought my system to a grinding halt.
I was trying to ...
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Nautilus Accels on Debian 9/Gnome 3.22.3
I'm an Ubuntu 18.04 user (with GNOME 3.28.3) and this have worked wonderfully for me. Hope it does for you too :)
Since version 3.15.4 Nautilus doesn't load the accel file anymore (Source).
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How works the "eject usb driver" from Gnome?
umount command itself doesn't cut off power to the drive, mounting really means linking a filesystem on drive with a directory, so unmounting just does that - unlinks a mount from particular directory;...
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Gnome Files (Nautilus) very slow to start on Debian Testing (Buster)
I discovered that if you delete ~/.cache/tracker/ the problem is solved.
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Mime Type Wildcard in Default Application List
Not sure it will help you but the following mime type list has helped me. I am still not sure that I am 100% right on this but so far this is working for me.
I was trying to develop a 'open with' ...
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why is everything heavily responding while transferring data to a 32GB USB stick?
The clue is here:
%Cpu(s): 0.8 us, 2.0 sy, 0.0 ni, 25.0 id, 72.1 wa, 0.0 hi, 0.2 si, 0.0 st
72% of your CPU power is stuck waiting for I/O operations to complete. If I had to guess, your USB ...
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How do I create a default file association in Debian with Gnome?
[Debian 10.0.0 Buster + GNOME]
I see the same deficient behaviour using 'open with' as you describe.
Select any file having the MIMETYPE of interest then right-click -> Properties.
Select the 'Open ...
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How to change the titlebar height in standard GTK apps and those with headerbars/CSDs on Gnome 3.20
On my Ubuntu 20.04 I use this custom theme fix (Gnome 3.20 on Yaru Standard Theme) and works well.
headerbar.default-decoration {
min-height: 18px;
margin: 0px 0px 0px 0px;
padding: 2px ...
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How to install RabbitVCS on CentOS 7 & nautlius 3?
Adding an answer here as I can't comment on Hien Lee's without more reputation points. I followed Hien Lee's guide, but still had no luck on this. After looking at System messages I found that ...
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