is an extension for nautilus, which adds an context-entry for opening other terminal emulators than gnome-terminal.

Right now the plugin is limited to these terminal emulators. If one is missing please open an issue.

• alacritty
• blackbox
• cool-retro-term
• deepin-terminal
• foot/footclient
• gnome-terminal
• guake
• hyper
• kermit
• kgx (GNOME Console)
• kitty
• konsole
• mate-terminal
• mlterm
• qterminal
• sakura
• st properly patched
• tabby
• terminator
• terminology
• termite
• tilix
• urxvt
• urxvtc
• wezterm
• xfce4-terminal

yay -S nautilus-open-any-terminal

nix-env -iA nixos.nautilus-open-any-terminal

Dependency to install before: nautilus-python (python-nautilus/python3-nautilus(newer) package on Debian / Ubuntu)

User install:

pip install --user nautilus-open-any-terminal

System-wide install:

pip install nautilus-open-any-terminal

Then kill Nautilus to allow it to load the new extension:

nautilus -q

If it does not work, try using the following command (from this repository):

./tools/update-extension-user.sh install    # for a user install
sudo tools/update-extension-system.sh install  # for a system-wide install

To configure the plugin’s behaviour make sure to run (system-wide):

glib-compile-schemas /usr/share/glib-2.0/schemas

or for (user-wide) installation:

glib-compile-schemas ~/.local/share/glib-2.0/schemas/

gsettings set com.github.stunkymonkey.nautilus-open-any-terminal terminal alacritty
gsettings set com.github.stunkymonkey.nautilus-open-any-terminal keybindings '<Ctrl><Alt>t'
gsettings set com.github.stunkymonkey.nautilus-open-any-terminal new-tab true
gsettings set com.github.stunkymonkey.nautilus-open-any-terminal flatpak system

since setup.py does not provide a natively uninstall method the scripts have an uninstall option.

./tools/update-extension-user.sh uninstall    # for a user uninstall
sudo tools/update-extension-system.sh uninstall  # for a system-wide uninstall