Nautilus File Manager Windows

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The Nautilus filemanager provides an integrated access point to your files, applications, andFTP sites. To open a Nautilus window, choose Applications -> Home Folder. The following figure shows a Nautiluswindow that displays the contents of a folder.

A Nautilus window contains the followingpanes:

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Side pane

Enables you to navigatethrough your files. This pane also displays information about the currentfile or folder. The side pane is on the left side of the window.

View pane

Displays the contentsof files and folders. The view pane is on the right side of the window.

Nautilus enables you to dothe following:

  • View files and folders

    You can view your files and folders as icons or as a list. You can viewthe contents of some types of file within a Nautiluswindow. Alternatively, you can open the files in the appropriate applicationfrom Nautilus.

  • Manage your files and folders

    You can use Nautilus to create, move, copy,rename, and remove files and folders.

  • Run scripts

    You can run scripts from Nautilus, and youcan select files and folders on which to run your scripts.

  • Customize your files and folders

    You can add emblems to your files and folders to indicate particularstates. For example, you can add an Important emblem to a file to indicatethat the file is important. You can also customize folders in the followingways:

    • Add a note to a folder.

    • Specify a custom background pattern for a folder.

    • Specify a zoom setting for a folder.

Nautilus also creates the desktop.

To Open Files From the File Manager

To navigate to the folder where the file that you want to open resides,double-click on the folder icons in the view pane. When the file that youwant to open is displayed, double-click on the file icon to open the file.

To Move Files Between Folders

You can move files between folders by opening two or more Nautilus windows. Open a different folder in each window, thendrag the files from one window to the other.

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to open the current folder in the GUI.
How would I do this in Win10 WSL? Can you even launch window apps from the WSL command line?

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Running Nautilus

You can run nautilus from WSL! This will let you manage the Linux file system.

This isn't exactly appropriate for this SE, because it's mostly a windows-related question, but here it is.

Nautilus and many other linux applications can be run on WSL as long as you have a Windows-based X11 server. X11 is the window system most of Linux relies on, but it can be installed on Windows too. X11 runs in client-server mode that decouples the calling client code from the server, so calls out of the WSL are pretty transparent.

Other things you can run with an X11 server include:

  • Sublime
  • Various terminal emulators
  • Calculators
  • Probably other things I haven't tried.

Getting the X11 server

There are a few Windows-based X11 servers. Note that the server works using TCP, and by default it can accept connections from any IP, so you might want to restrict it in your firewall.

I use this one:

Connecting WSL to it

Just put this in your .bashrc/.zshrc file:

Running nautlius

Don't forget to sudo apt update. Then sudo apt install nautilus. Then

Running explorer.exe

You can invoke any Windows executable from the WSL, including explorer.exe, the Windows file manager. You just need to type its full name (including the extension), and if it's a Win32 executable, it will start.

However, Windows applications run under Windows, not under WSL. They won't see the Linux file system, only the Windows one. While it's true that the Linux file system is mapped to files and folders in the Windows file system, this mapping is more-or-less an implementation detail. It's not recommended to modify the Linux file system from Windows.

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You give explorer.exe arguments, but note that you can't give it Linux paths because it's not a Linux application.

There is no command to map a Linux path to the corresponding Windows path and the path is usually pretty ugly. For example, the path to ~/.zshrc might be:

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Citing the WSL FAQ here:

(WSL) is primarily a tool for developers -- especially web developers and those who work on or with open source projects. This allows those who want/need to use Bash, common Linux tools (sed, awk, etc.) and many Linux-first tools (Ruby, Python, etc.) to use their toolchain on Windows.

WSL is a tool aimed at enabling users who need them to run Bash and core Linux command-line tools on Windows.
WSL does not aim to support GUI desktops or applications (e.g. Gnome, KDE, etc.)

I seriously doubt that Windows lets you open any GUI program at all from WSL, but what you want is a feature of Windows Powershell, see this introduction:

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We can call Explorer from within PowerShell by using the command Explorer.

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The command to open Explorer in the current directory is: explorer .

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