I spotted sight of the following application over on the very ace Cewen's blog and found it so nerdily cool (and also seemingly useful) that I haven't been able to resist posting about it. As such do forgive the irrelevance and/or potential WTF-ing at the following marriage of GUI and CLI€¦
Have you longed for an integrated Terminal in Nautilus? Hate being torn between flexing your terminal talents and resizing some holiday snaps in Nautilus?
No more.
The idea behind Nautilus-terminal is actually rather simple – so much so that I'm somewhat surprised no-one has thought of it sooner! The merge inserts a full-blown, fully-working terminal just below the main navigation bar in the Nautilus window, comes with many, many preference options (such as configuring the look, height or font) and supports a neat separation mode with the F3 key creating a new tab.
So who's the Frankenstein behind the monster? Fabien Loison – better known to many Linux users as 'Flozz' or 'the creator of cover-thumbnailer'.
Install
The PPA contains nautilus-terminal builds for Ubuntu 9.10 through to Ubuntu 10.10 testers.
Open a terminal (heh) and enter the following commands
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:flozz/flozz
sudo apt-get update && sudo apt-get install nautilus-terminal
Now restart nautilus by pressing ALT+F2 and entering 'nautilus -q' sans quote marks or logging out and back in.
