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GNOME Tips

  • Open pavucontrol-qt, GUI for Pulse Audio

Source: 13 Quick Tips to Make Linux File Manager Nautilus Even Better - It’s FOSS

  • Recent files are accessible from top item of left menu
  • Open terminal in folder with context menu
Terminal window
# Configure Nautilus to create new documents in right click menu
# Add files in the `~/templates` folder and Nautilus will automatically read them
cd ~/Templates
touch "New Text Document.txt"
# Add any other file templates you want to add to the menu
# Preview files with spacebar, requires:
sudo apt install gnome-sushi -y

Other tips:

Terminal window
# Resize images from context menu, requires:
sudo apt install imagemagick nautilus-image-converter -y
# Change colours of folders, then choose colours you want
sudo apt install folder-color -y
# Open files as administrator in context menu, requires:
sudo apt install nautilus-admin -y
# Check hashs with context menu, requires:
sudo apt install nautilus-gtkhash -y
  • Bookmark files and folders in the left menu

Like application shortcuts and binaries

Application entry:

Desktop entries for applications, or .desktop files, are generally a combination of meta information resources and a shortcut of an application. These files usually reside in usr/share/applications or usr/local/share/applications for applications installed system-wide, or ~/.local/share/applications/ for user-specific applications. User entries take precedence over system entries.

The key combination for ç in US international with dead keys layout was there all along, but unlike the other Latin diacritics it does not involve a dead key:

AltGr+,+c=ç

AltGr+Shift+,+C=Ç

AltGr is simply right alt

In GNOME, use Evince (default) and use settings to choose night mode