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Fedora 21 Open Terminal From File Manager

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    If you use the command line a lot (like me!), then being able to switch quickly between the graphical file explorer and a terminal window in the same location is a fantastic timesaver.

    On gnome this option isn’t available by default (as it is from KDE), but you can enable it by installing the nautilus-open-terminal package.

    In a terminal window type:

    sudo yum install nautilus-open-terminal

    You may need to log out/in after doing this, although I didn’t need to on Fedora 21.

    Once it has completed, if you right click in any ‘Files’ graphical window, you will see a new shortcut to ‘Open in terminal’:

    open-in-terminal

    Super easy and super handy too!