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A Nautilus Sucks Donkeyballs Linux Rant
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Personally I never understood why file managers in linux refuse to do operations that require privileges. Guess what, if I have Nautilus open and want to move files into, let's say,
/usr/local
, I don't want to have to switch to the terminal to do so if I already have the stuff copied within nautilus. On Windows, I just get an admin password prompt if I try to do naughty stuff. On Linux, we have the whole polkit system, but no file manager seems to ever use it. Tbf, this is not a nautilus problem, as no file manager seems to do this.You can do this in Nemo by default, and for Dolphin you'll need to install the KDE "kio-admin" package.
Oh wow you can? I just switched to Nemo on Arch after using Thunar for a long time but I got annoyed at it for crashing a lot when I copy files to my FTP server. Very good to know!
In Thunar it's just right-click and "Open as root"
I really like Thunar
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I'm aware of nautilus-admin, but not only is it not maintained, imho it should be part of nautilus by default, and it has to open a new nautilus window when you use it. What I want is to drag and drop files to
/usr/local
and then get a password prompt to do the move. With nautilus-admin, I need to have the foresight to use "Open as admin" when going into/usr/local
, but if I had that foresight then I might as well just start nautilus as root to begin with. Usually I just want to look into the folder, and only then realize I need to change something, which means a good old "go back up one folder, then search thelocal
folder again, then right click, search for 'Open as admin', then get thrown into a new window, completely disorienting myself in the process".[This comment has been deleted by an automated system]
This annoys me to no end.