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Want to embed a terminal in the Files, Nautilus file manager, in Ubuntu? Nautilus Terminal is the project to do the job.<\/p>\n
Nautilus Terminal is an open-source project started in 2010. It’s now at version 4.x that supports up to Nautilus 40. <\/p>\n
With it, you have an integrated terminal in each file window and tab. The terminal follows the navigation<\/b>, without running The terminal placement can be at top<\/b> (default) or bottom<\/b>. You can press F4<\/b> on keyboard to show or hide it. And it supports drag & drop of file on the terminal.<\/p>\n By right-click on terminal area, you can do copy & paste actions, and go to its Preferences.<\/p>\n The “Preferences” indeed opens Dconf Editor<\/b><\/i> (you need to firstly install it in Ubuntu Software<\/i>) and navigate to “\/org\/flozz\/nautilus-terminal” settings page. There you can configure:<\/p>\n The project developer used to maintain an Ubuntu PPA, which is however no longer updated. Ubuntu 20.04<\/b> and higher users can now run following commands to install it from PyPi.<\/p>\n 1.)<\/b> Open terminal by pressing Ctrl+Alt+T on keyboard. When it opens, firstly run command to install required libraries:<\/p>\n 2.)<\/b> Then install Nautilus Terminal via command:<\/p>\n 3.)<\/b> And install it for system wide by running command:<\/p>\ncd<\/code> command, the terminal automatically go to the directory when you navigate to a folder in file manager. <\/p>\n![\"\"](\"https:\/\/ubuntuhandbook.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/05\/nautilus-terminal.jpg\")
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<\/a><\/p>\nHow to Install Nautilus Terminal in Ubuntu 20.04 & Higher:<\/h3>\n
sudo apt install python3-nautilus python3-psutil python3-pip libglib2.0-bin dconf-editor<\/pre>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nsudo pip3 install nautilus-terminal<\/pre>\n
<\/a><\/p>\nsudo nautilus-terminal --install-system<\/pre>\n