File manager: open a terminal, but not here

Posted by eldersnake on Nov 1, 2017 12:48 PM EDT
The Linux Rain; By Bob Mesibov
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Each of the two file managers I use — Thunar and Xfe — allows me to open a terminal in a selected directory. In Thunar, I right-click on a directory and choose Open Terminal Here, and in Xfe I use the keyboard shortcut Ctrl + t. In both cases, though, the terminal window opens right on top of the file manager window. I prefer the "open terminal here" action to open a terminal in a different workspace and to take me to that workspace. This article explains how I organised that.

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