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<chapter id="nautilus">
  <title>Nautilus File Manager</title>

  <!-- ID tag preserved for 2.8 compatibility -->
  <anchor id="gosnautilus-1"/>

  <!-- Desktop Overview / File Manager -->
  <anchor id="gosoverview-56"/>

  <!-- MOVE THIS ANCHOR -->
  <!-- Desktop Overview / File Manager / To Open Files -->
  <anchor id="gosoverview-58"/>

  <!-- MOVE THIS ANCHOR -->
  <!-- Desktop Overview / File Manager / To Move Files -->
  <anchor id="gosoverview-57"/>

  <!-- MOVE THESE ANCHORS -->
  <!-- Desktop Overview / Desktop -->
  <anchor id="gosgetstarted-11"/>
  <!-- Desktop Overview / Desktop / To Open Desktop Objects -->
  <anchor id="gosoverview-29"/>
  <!-- Desktop Overview / Desktop / To Add Objects-->
  <anchor id="gosoverview-19"/>
  <!-- Using the Start Here Location -->
  <anchor id="gosnautilus-445"/>
  <!-- To Choose a View in Which to Display a File or Folder - (image/text view) -->
  <anchor id="gosnautilus-100"/>
  <!-- To Modify the Behavior of a View -->
  <anchor id="gosnautilus-111"/>
  <!-- To Resize an Icon in Icon View - (This can only be done on desktop now) -->
  <anchor id="gosnautilus-103"/>
  <!-- To Execute Other Actions When Displaying a File -->
  <anchor id="gosnautilus-73"/>

  <highlights>
    <para>This chapter describes how to use the <application>Nautilus</application> file manager.</para>
  </highlights>

  <sect1 id="gosnautilus-21">
    <title>Introduction to Nautilus File Manager</title>
    <indexterm>
      <primary>file manager</primary>
      <secondary>introduction</secondary>
    </indexterm>
   <sect2 id="gosnautilus-22">
    <title>File Manager Functionality</title>
    <para>The <application>Nautilus</application> file manager provides
an integrated access point to your files and applications. You can use the
file manager to do the following:<itemizedlist><listitem><para>Create folders and documents.</para></listitem><listitem><para>Display your files and folders.</para></listitem><listitem><para>Manage your files and folders.</para></listitem><listitem><para>Run scripts.</para></listitem><listitem><para>Customize your files and folders.</para></listitem><listitem><para>Open special URI locations.</para></listitem><listitem><para>Write data to a CD.</para></listitem></itemizedlist></para>
    <para><application>Nautilus</application> also manages the desktop. The desktop
lies behind all of the other components on your visible desktop. The desktop
is an active component of the user interface.</para>
  </sect2>
  <sect2 id="gosnautilus-presentation">
   <title>File Manager Presentation</title>
   <para>The file manager lets you organize your files into folders. Folders can contain other folders. You can use folders to nicely 
organize your files, so you can find them easily.</para>
   <para>Every user has a Home folder. The home folder contains all of the user's files. The desktop is also another 
folder. The desktop contains special icons for the Computer, Home folder, Trash, and removable media such as 
floppy disks, CDs and USB flash drives.</para>
    <para>You can access your files and folders in the following ways:</para>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>Browse your files and folders</para>
        <para>The file browser window enables you to navigate between folders by changing
the current location of the file manager within a file browser window.</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Navigate your files and folders as objects</para>
        <para>The file manager can also represent your files and folders as individual
objects. Each file or folder is displayed in an individual file object window.
When you open files or folders from file object windows, each file or folder
opens a new window.</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
   <para>To start managing your files you may double click the appropriate icon on the desktop. 
If there are programs covering your desktop, you can go to the Places menu on the panel, 
which has entries for your Home folder, your desktop folder, a list 
of recently opened documents and mounted removable media.</para>
   <para>In GNOME many things are files, such as word processor documents, spreadsheets, photos, movies, and music.
E-mail, address books and web pages are not normal files, these are managed through e-mail programs and web browsers.</para>
   </sect2>
  </sect1>
  <sect1 id="gosnautilus-210">
    <title>Browsing Your Files</title>
    <!-- Viewing Files in a File Browser Window -->
    <anchor id="nautilus-desktop"/>
    <anchor id="gosnautilus-447"/>
    <indexterm>
      <primary>file manager</primary>
      <secondary>windows</secondary>
    </indexterm>
    <para>You can use file browser windows to browse your file system.</para>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-492">
      <title>File Browser Windows</title>
      <para>You can access file browser windows in the following ways:
<itemizedlist>
<listitem><para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Applications</guimenu><guimenuitem>System Tools</guimenuitem><guimenuitem>File Browser</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>Select a folder from a file object window, then choose <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Browse Folder</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.
A file browser window displays the contents of your folder in the view pane.</para></listitem>
<listitem><para>If nautilus is set to always open browser windows, double clicking any folder will open a browser window, see <xref linkend="gosnautilus-56"/>.</para></listitem>
</itemizedlist></para>
      <para><xref linkend="gosnautilus-FIG-505"/> shows a sample file browser window
that displays the contents of the Home folder.</para>
      <figure id="gosnautilus-FIG-505">
        <title>Contents of a Folder in a File Browser Window</title>
        <screenshot>
          <mediaobject>
            <imageobject>
              <imagedata fileref="figures/naut_browser_window.png" format="PNG"/>
            </imageobject>
            <textobject>
              <phrase> A folder in a file browser window.</phrase>
            </textobject>
          </mediaobject>
        </screenshot>
      </figure>
      <note>
        <para>In other distributions of the GNOME Desktop, the <guibutton>Home</guibutton> toolbar button might have another designation, for example, <guibutton>Documents</guibutton>.</para>
      </note>
    <sect3 id="gosnautilus-493">
      <title>File Browser Window Components</title>
      <para><xref linkend="gosnautilus-TBL-83"/> describes the components of file
browser windows.</para>
      <table frame="topbot" id="gosnautilus-TBL-83">
        <title>File Browser Window Components</title>
        <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
          <colspec colname="colspec0" colwidth="29.39*"/>
          <colspec colname="colspec1" colwidth="70.61*"/>
          <thead>
            <row rowsep="1">
              <entry>
                <para>Component</para>
              </entry>
              <entry>
                <para>Description </para>
              </entry>
            </row>
          </thead>
          <tbody>
            <row>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Menubar</para>
              </entry>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Contains menus that you use to perform tasks in the file manager.</para>
		<para>You can also open a popup menu from file manager windows. To open this
popup menu right-click in a file manager window. The items in this menu depend
on where you right-click. For example, when you right-click on a file or folder,
you can choose items related to the file or folder. When you right-click on
the background of a view pane, you can choose items related to the display
of items in the view pane.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Toolbar</para>
              </entry>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Contains buttons that you use to perform tasks in the file manager.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                <para>Location bar</para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                <para>Contains the following elements:</para>
                <itemizedlist>
                  <listitem>
                    <para><guilabel>Location</guilabel> : Shows your current location. Each button represents a folder, by clicking on them you can change your location.
You can also drag buttons, for example to another location, in order to copy a folder.</para>
                  </listitem>
                  <listitem>
                    <para><guimenu>Zoom</guimenu> buttons: Enable you to change the
size of items in the view pane.</para>
                  </listitem>
                  <listitem>
                    <para><guilabel>View as</guilabel> drop-down list: Enables you to
choose how to show items in your view pane.</para>
                  </listitem>
                </itemizedlist>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry valign="top">
		<anchor id="gosnautilus-540"/>
                <para>Side pane</para>
              </entry>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Performs the following functions:</para>
                <itemizedlist>
                  <listitem>
                    <para>Shows information about the current file or folder. </para>
                  </listitem>
                  <listitem>
                    <para>Enables you to navigate through your files. </para>
                  </listitem>
                </itemizedlist>
                <para>To display the side pane, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guimenuitem>Side Pane</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. The side pane contains a drop-down list that enables
you to choose what to show in the side pane. You can choose from the following
options:</para>                
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            <guilabel>Places</guilabel>
          </para>
          <para>Displays places of particular interest.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            <guilabel>Information</guilabel>
          </para>
          <para>Displays the icon and information about the current folder. Buttons may appear in the side pane, these buttons
enable you to perform actions on the current folder, other than the default action.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            <guilabel>Tree</guilabel>
          </para>
          <para>Displays a hierarchical representation of your file system. You can
use the <guilabel>Tree</guilabel> to navigate through your files.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            <guilabel>History</guilabel>
          </para>
          <para>Contains a history list of files, folders, FTP sites, and URIs that
you have recently visited.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            <guilabel>Notes</guilabel>
          </para>
          <para>Enables you to add notes to your files and folders.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>
            <guilabel>Emblems</guilabel>
          </para>
          <para>Contains emblems that you can add to a file or folder.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
      <para>To close the side pane, click on the <guibutton>X</guibutton> button
at the top right of the side pane.</para>
                </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry valign="top">
		<anchor id="gosnautilus-53"/>
                <para>View pane</para>
              </entry>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Shows the contents of the following:</para>
                <itemizedlist>
                  <listitem>
                    <para>Folders</para>
                  </listitem>
                  <listitem>
                    <para>FTP sites</para>
                  </listitem>
                  <listitem>
                    <para>Windows shares</para>
                  </listitem>
                  <listitem>
                    <para>WebDAV servers</para>
                  </listitem>
                  <listitem>
                    <para>Locations that correspond to special URIs</para>
                  </listitem>
                </itemizedlist>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                <para>Statusbar</para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                <para>Displays status information.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
          </tbody>
        </tgroup>
      </table>
    </sect3>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-18">
      <title>To Show and Hide File Browser Window Components</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>window components, showing
and hiding</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>You can show and hide file browser
window components as follows: </para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>To hide the side pane, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guimenuitem>Side Pane</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. To display the
side pane again, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guimenuitem>Side Pane</guimenuitem></menuchoice> again. </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>To hide the toolbar, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guimenuitem>Main Toolbar</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. To display the
toolbar again, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guimenuitem>Toolbar</guimenuitem></menuchoice> again. </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>To hide the location bar, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guimenuitem>Location Bar</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. To display
the location bar again, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guimenuitem>Location Bar</guimenuitem></menuchoice> again.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>To hide the statusbar, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guimenuitem>Statusbar</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. To display the
statusbar again, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guimenuitem>Statusbar</guimenuitem></menuchoice> again. </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-499">
      <title>To Display Your Home Folder</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>Home location</secondary>
        <see>Home location</see>
      </indexterm>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>Home location</primary>
        <secondary>displaying</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <screenshot>
        <mediaobject>
          <imageobject>
            <imagedata fileref="figures/naut_home_launcher.png" format="PNG"/>
          </imageobject>
          <textobject>
            <phrase>Home location icon.</phrase>
          </textobject>
        </mediaobject>
      </screenshot>
      <para>To display your home location,
perform one of the following actions from file browser windows:</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Go</guimenu><guimenuitem>Home</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Click on the <guibutton>Home</guibutton> toolbar button. </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Click on the <guibutton>Home</guibutton> button in the Places side pane. </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
      <para>The file browser window displays the contents of your home location.</para>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-500">
      <title>To Display a Folder</title>
      <para>You can display the contents of a folder in any of the following ways: </para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Double-click on the folder in the view pane.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Use the <guilabel>Tree</guilabel> in the side pane. For more
information, see <xref linkend="gosnautilus-27"/>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Click on the <guilabel>Location</guilabel> buttons in the location bar.
</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Press <keycap>Ctrl+L</keycap> to show the text <guilabel>Location</guilabel> field, type the path
of the folder that you want to display, then press <keycap>Return</keycap>.
The <guilabel>Location</guilabel> field includes an autocomplete feature.
As you type a path, the file manager reads your file system. When you type
enough characters to uniquely identify a directory, the file manager completes
the name of the directory in the <guilabel>Location</guilabel> field.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Use the <guibutton>Back</guibutton> toolbar button and the <guibutton>Forward</guibutton> toolbar button to browse through your navigation history.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
      <para>To change to the folder that is one level above the current folder,
choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Go</guimenu><guimenuitem>Up</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. Alternatively, click on the <guibutton>Up</guibutton> toolbar
button.</para>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-26">
      <title>To Display a Parent Folder</title>
      <para>A parent folder is a top level folder that depicts a hierarchical representation
of your file system. To display the contents of a parent folder, perform one of the
following steps:</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Press the <guibutton>Up</guibutton> button on the toolbar.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Go</guimenu><guimenuitem>Open Parent</guimenuitem></menuchoice> from the menubar. </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-27">
      <title>Using the Tree From the Side Pane</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>Tree, using </secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>Tree, using</primary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>The <guilabel>Tree</guilabel> displays a hierarchical representation of your file system.
The <guilabel>Tree</guilabel> provides a convenient way to browse and to navigate
your file system. To display the <guilabel>Tree</guilabel> in the side pane,
choose <guimenuitem>Tree</guimenuitem> from the drop-down list at the top
of the side pane. </para>
      <para>In the <guilabel>Tree</guilabel>, folders are represented as follows:</para>
      <informaltable frame="topbot">
        <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
          <colspec colwidth="50*"/>
          <colspec colwidth="50*"/>
          <thead>
            <row rowsep="1">
              <entry>
                <para>Folder State</para>
              </entry>
              <entry>
                <para>Graphic
Representation </para>
              </entry>
            </row>
          </thead>
          <tbody>
            <row>
              <entry>
                <para>Closed folder</para>
              </entry>
              <entry>
                <para>Right arrow</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry>
                <para>Open folder</para>
              </entry>
              <entry>
                <para>Down arrow</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
          </tbody>
        </tgroup>
      </informaltable>
      <para><xref linkend="gosnautilus-TBL-34"/> describes the tasks that you can
perform with the <guilabel>Tree</guilabel>, and how to perform the tasks.</para>
      <table frame="topbot" id="gosnautilus-TBL-34">
        <title>Tree Tasks</title>
        <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
          <colspec colname="colspec0" colwidth="50*"/>
          <colspec colname="colspec1" colwidth="50*"/>
          <thead>
            <row rowsep="1">
              <entry>
                <para>Task</para>
              </entry>
              <entry>
                <para>Action</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
          </thead>
          <tbody>
            <row>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Open the <guilabel>Tree</guilabel>.</para>
              </entry>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Choose <guilabel>Tree</guilabel> from the drop-down
list at the top of the side pane.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Close the <guilabel>Tree</guilabel>.</para>
              </entry>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Choose another item from the drop-down list at the
top of the side pane.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                <para>Expand a folder in the <guilabel>Tree</guilabel>.</para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                <para>Click on the arrow next to the folder in the <guilabel>Tree</guilabel>. </para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                <para>Collapse a folder in the <guilabel> Tree</guilabel>.</para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                <para>Click on the arrow next to the folder in the <guilabel>Tree</guilabel>.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                <para>Display the contents of
a folder in the view pane.</para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                <para>Select the folder in the <guilabel>Tree</guilabel>.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Open a file.</para>
              </entry>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Select the file in the <guilabel>Tree</guilabel>.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
          </tbody>
        </tgroup>
      </table>
      <para>You can set your preferences so that the <guilabel>Tree</guilabel> does
not display files. For more information, see <xref linkend="gosnautilus-438"/>. </para>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-5">
      <title>Using Your Navigation History</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>navigating history list</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>The file browser window maintains a history
list of files, folders, FTP sites, and URI locations. You can use the history
list to navigate to files, folders, FTP sites, and URI locations that you
have recently visited. Your history list contains the last ten items that
you viewed.</para>
      <para>To clear your history list choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Go</guimenu><guimenuitem>Clear History</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para>
      <sect3 id="gosnautilus-77">
        <title>To Navigate Your History List Using the Go Menu</title>
        <para>To display a list of previously-viewed items, choose the <guimenu>Go</guimenu> menu. Your history list is displayed in the lower part of the <guimenu>Go</guimenu> menu. To open an item in your history list, choose the item from
the <guimenu>Go</guimenu> menu.</para>
      </sect3>
      <sect3 id="gosnautilus-78">
        <title>To Navigate Your History List Using the Toolbar</title>
        <para>To use the toolbar to navigate your history list, perform one of the
following actions:</para>
        <itemizedlist>
          <listitem>
            <para>To open the folder or URI in your history
list, click on the <guibutton>Back</guibutton> toolbar button.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>To open the folder or URI in your history list,
click on the <guibutton>Forward</guibutton> toolbar button.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>To display a list of previously-viewed items, click on the
down arrow to the right of the <guibutton>Back</guibutton> toolbar button.
To open an item from this list, click on the item.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>To display a list of items that you viewed after you viewed
the current item, click on the down arrow to the right of the <guibutton>Forward</guibutton> toolbar button. To open an item from this list, click
on the item.</para>
          </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
      </sect3>
      <sect3 id="gosnautilus-80">
        <title>To Navigate Your History List Using History in the Side Pane</title>
        <indexterm>
          <primary>file manager</primary>
          <secondary>History</secondary>
        </indexterm>
        <para>To display the <guilabel>History</guilabel> list in the side pane, choose <guilabel>History</guilabel> from the drop-down list at the top of the side pane. The <guilabel>History</guilabel> list in the side pane displays a list of your previously-viewed
items.</para>
        <para>To display an item from your history list in the view pane, double-click on
the item in the <guilabel>History</guilabel> list.</para>
      </sect3>
    </sect2>
  </sect1>
  <sect1 id="gosnautilus-24">
    <title>Navigating Your Files and Folders as Objects</title>
    <indexterm>
      <primary>file manager</primary>
      <secondary>navigating</secondary>
    </indexterm>
    <para>In this mode, each file object window displays the contents of a single
file, folder, FTP site, or special URI location. When you open an object it appears at the same place on the 
screen as the last time you looked at it. This lets you easily recognize folders when many of them are open.</para>
<para>This section describes the following:</para>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>How to display items in file object windows.</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>How to open files from file object windows.</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>How to navigate the files and folders in your file system.</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-510">
      <title>File Object Windows</title>
      <para>To access a file object window, double-click on any of the default desktop
objects.</para>
      <para><xref linkend="gosnautilus-FIG-504"/> shows a sample file object window
that displays the contents of the Computer folder.</para>
      <figure id="gosnautilus-FIG-504">
        <title>Contents of a Folder in a File Object Window<indexterm><primary>file
manager</primary><secondary>icon view</secondary><tertiary>illustration</tertiary></indexterm></title>
        <screenshot>
          <mediaobject>
            <imageobject>
              <imagedata fileref="figures/naut_computer_contents.png" format="PNG"/>
            </imageobject>
            <textobject>
              <phrase> A folder in a file object window.</phrase>
            </textobject>
          </mediaobject>
        </screenshot>
      </figure>
   <sect3 id="gosnautilus-components">
      <title>File Object Window Components</title>
      <para><xref linkend="gosnautilus-TBL-85"/> describes the components of file
object windows.</para>
      <table frame="topbot" id="gosnautilus-TBL-85">
        <title>File Object Window Components</title>
        <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
          <colspec colname="colspec0" colwidth="29.39*"/>
          <colspec colname="colspec1" colwidth="70.61*"/>
          <thead>
            <row rowsep="1">
              <entry>
                <para>Component</para>
              </entry>
              <entry>
                <para>Description </para>
              </entry>
            </row>
          </thead>
          <tbody>
            <row>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Menubar</para>
              </entry>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Contains menus that you use to perform tasks in the file manager.</para>
		<para>You can also open a popup menu from file manager windows. To open this
popup menu right-click in a file manager window. The items in this menu depend
on where you right-click. For example, when you right-click on a file or folder,
you can choose items related to the file or folder. When you right-click on
the background of a view pane, you can choose items related to the display
of items in the view pane.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry valign="top">
		<anchor id="gosnautilus-components-view"/>
                <para>View pane</para>
              </entry>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Shows the contents of the following:</para>
                <itemizedlist>
                  <listitem>
                    <para>Folders</para>
                  </listitem>
                  <listitem>
                    <para>FTP sites</para>
                  </listitem>
                  <listitem>
                    <para>Windows shares</para>
                  </listitem>
                  <listitem>
                    <para>WebDAV servers</para>
                  </listitem>
                  <listitem>
                    <para>Locations that correspond to special URIs</para>
                  </listitem>
                </itemizedlist>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                <para>Statusbar</para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                <para>Displays status information.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                <para>Parent folder selector</para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                <para>With this selector, you may open directly folders that are beneath the current location.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
          </tbody>
        </tgroup>
      </table>
    </sect3>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-4">
      <title>To Display Your Home Location in a File Object Window</title>
      <screenshot>
        <mediaobject>
          <imageobject>
            <imagedata fileref="figures/naut_home_launcher.png" format="PNG"/>
          </imageobject>
          <textobject>
            <phrase>Home location icon.</phrase>
          </textobject>
        </mediaobject>
      </screenshot>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>Home location</secondary>
        <see>Home location</see>
      </indexterm>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>Home location</primary>
        <secondary>displaying</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>To display your home location,
perform one of the following actions:</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Double-click on the <guilabel>Home</guilabel> object on the
desktop.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>On a file object window, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Places</guimenu><guimenuitem>Home</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
      <para>The file object window displays the contents of your home location.</para>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-25">
      <title>To Display a Folder</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>displaying folders</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>You can display the contents of a folder in a file object
window in any of the following ways:</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Double-click on the folder.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Highlight the folder, then choose <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Open</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-511">
      <title>To Display a Parent Folder</title>
      <para>A parent folder is a top level folder that depicts a hierarchical representation
of your file system. To display the contents of a parent folder, perform the
following steps:</para>
      <orderedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Highlight the folder whose parent folder you want to display.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Open Parent</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. </para>
        </listitem>
      </orderedlist>
      <para>You may also use the list at the bottom left of each folder to open any folder hierarchicaly beneath the current folder.</para>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-512">
      <title>To Close Folders</title>
      <para>To close folders you may simply click on the close window button, this however may not be the most efficient way to close many windows.
If you would like to view only the current folder, and not the folders you opend to reach the current folder, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Close Parent Folders</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.
If want to close all folders on the screen, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Close All Folders</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para>
      </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-501">
      <title>To Display a Folder in a File Browser Window</title>
      <para>To display the contents of a folder in a file browser window, perform
the following steps:</para>
      <orderedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Select a folder in a file object window.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Browse Folder</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. </para>
        </listitem>
      </orderedlist>
    </sect2>
  </sect1>
  <sect1 id="gosnautilus-203">
    <title>Modifying the Appearance of Files and Folders</title>
    <indexterm>
      <primary>file manager</primary>
      <secondary>modifying appearance
of files and folders</secondary>
    </indexterm>
    <para>The file manager enables
you to modify the appearance of your files and folders in several ways, as
described in the following sections.</para>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-550">
      <title>Icons and Emblems</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>icons</secondary>
        <tertiary>introduction</tertiary>
      </indexterm>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>emblems</secondary>
        <see>emblems</see>
      </indexterm>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>emblems</primary>
        <secondary>introduction</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>The file manager displays your files and folders as icons. You can add
emblems to your file icons and folder icons. An emblem is a small icon that
you can add to an item to visually mark the item. For example, to mark a file
as important, you can add an <guilabel>Important</guilabel> emblem to the
file icon to create the following visual effect: </para>
      <screenshot>
        <mediaobject>
          <imageobject>
            <imagedata fileref="figures/naut_sampleemblem_icon.png" format="PNG"/>
          </imageobject>
          <textobject>
            <phrase>File icon with Important emblem.</phrase>
          </textobject>
        </mediaobject>
      </screenshot>
      <para>For more information on how to add an emblem to an icon, see <xref linkend="gosnautilus-112"/>.</para>
      <para>The following table describes the structure of the file icon:</para>
      <informaltable frame="topbot">
        <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
          <colspec colname="colspec0" colwidth="35.09*"/>
          <colspec colname="colspec1" colwidth="64.91*"/>
          <thead>
            <row rowsep="1">
              <entry>
                <para>Component</para>
              </entry>
              <entry>
                <para>Description</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
          </thead>
          <tbody>
            <row>
              <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                <screenshot>
                  <mediaobject>
                    <imageobject>
                      <imagedata fileref="figures/naut_sampleemblem1_icon.png" format="PNG"/>
                    </imageobject>
                    <textobject>
                      <phrase>Important emblem.</phrase>
                    </textobject>
                  </mediaobject>
                </screenshot>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                <para>Emblem. This emblem is the <guilabel>Important</guilabel> emblem.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry valign="top">
                <screenshot>
                  <mediaobject>
                    <imageobject>
                      <imagedata fileref="figures/naut_sampleemblem2_icon.png" format="PNG"/>
                    </imageobject>
                    <textobject>
                      <phrase>Text file icon.</phrase>
                    </textobject>
                  </mediaobject>
                </screenshot>
              </entry>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Icon that represents the file.
This icon might contain a preview of the contents of the file.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                <screenshot>
                  <mediaobject>
                    <imageobject>
                      <imagedata fileref="figures/naut_sampleemblem3_icon.png" format="PNG"/>
                    </imageobject>
                    <textobject>
                      <phrase>Icon caption.</phrase>
                    </textobject>
                  </mediaobject>
                </screenshot>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                <para>Icon caption. You can modify what items of information are displayed in the
icon caption, see <xref linkend="gosnautilus-439"/>.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
          </tbody>
        </tgroup>
      </informaltable>
      <para>The file manager includes default emblems for the following types of
item:</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Symbolic links</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Items for which you have the following permissions:<indexterm><primary>permissions</primary><secondary>and emblems</secondary></indexterm></para>
          <itemizedlist>
            <listitem>
              <para>No read permission</para>
            </listitem>
            <listitem>
              <para>No write permission</para>
            </listitem>
          </itemizedlist>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
      <para>The following table shows the default emblems:</para>
      <informaltable frame="topbot">
        <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
          <colspec colname="colspec0" colwidth="35.09*"/>
          <colspec colname="colspec1" colwidth="64.91*"/>
          <thead>
            <row rowsep="1">
              <entry>
                <para>Default Emblem</para>
              </entry>
              <entry>
                <para>Description</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
          </thead>
          <tbody>
            <row>
              <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                <screenshot>
                  <mediaobject>
                    <imageobject>
                      <imagedata fileref="figures/naut_link_emblem.png" format="PNG"/>
                    </imageobject>
                    <textobject>
                      <phrase>Symbolic link emblem.</phrase>
                    </textobject>
                  </mediaobject>
                </screenshot>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                <para><indexterm><primary>symbolic links</primary><secondary>and emblems</secondary></indexterm>Symbolic
link</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry valign="top">
                <screenshot>
                  <mediaobject>
                    <imageobject>
                      <imagedata fileref="figures/naut_nowrite_emblem.png" format="PNG"/>
                    </imageobject>
                    <textobject>
                      <phrase>No write permission emblem.</phrase>
                    </textobject>
                  </mediaobject>
                </screenshot>
              </entry>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>No write permission</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                <screenshot>
                  <mediaobject>
                    <imageobject>
                      <imagedata fileref="figures/naut_noread_emblem.png" format="PNG"/>
                    </imageobject>
                    <textobject>
                      <phrase>No read permission emblem.</phrase>
                    </textobject>
                  </mediaobject>
                </screenshot>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                <para>No read permission</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
          </tbody>
        </tgroup>
      </informaltable>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-112">
      <title>To Add an Emblem to a File or Folder</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>emblems</primary>
        <secondary>adding to file</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>emblems</primary>
        <secondary>adding to folder</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>To add an emblem to an item perform the following
steps: </para>
      <orderedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Select the item to which you want to add an emblem.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Right-click on the item, then choose <guimenuitem>Properties</guimenuitem>. A properties dialog is displayed.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Click on the <guilabel>Emblems</guilabel> tab to display the <guilabel>Emblems</guilabel> tabbed section.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Select the emblem to add to the item.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Click <guibutton>Close</guibutton> to close the properties
dialog.</para>
        </listitem>
      </orderedlist>
      <para>In browser windows you may also add emblems to items by dragging them from the emblem side pane.</para>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-471">
      <title>To Add a New Emblem</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>emblems</primary>
        <secondary>adding new</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>To add a new emblem, perform the following steps:</para>
      <orderedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Backgrounds and Emblems</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Click on the <guibutton>Emblem</guibutton> button, then click
on the <guibutton>Add a New Emblem</guibutton> button. A <guilabel>Create
a New Emblem</guilabel> dialog is displayed.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Type a name for the emblem in the <guilabel>Keyword</guilabel>
text box.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Click on the <guilabel>Image</guilabel> button. A dialog is
displayed, click <guibutton>Browse</guibutton>. When you choose an emblem,
click <guibutton>OK</guibutton>. </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Click <guibutton>OK</guibutton> on the <guilabel>Create a
New Emblem</guilabel> dialog.</para>
        </listitem>
      </orderedlist>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-51">
      <title>To Change the Icon for a File or Folder</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>icons</secondary>
        <tertiary>changing</tertiary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>To change the icon that represents an
individual file or folder, perform the following steps:</para>
      <orderedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Select the file or folder that you want to change.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Properties</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. A properties dialog is displayed. </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>On the <guilabel>Basic</guilabel> tabbed section, click on
the <guibutton>Icon</guibutton> button. A <guilabel>Select custom 
icon</guilabel> dialog is displayed. </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Use the <guilabel>Select custom icon</guilabel> dialog to choose
the icon to represent the file or folder. </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Click <guibutton>Close</guibutton> to close the properties
dialog.</para>
        </listitem>
      </orderedlist>
      <para>To restore an icon from a custom icon to the default icon,
Select the file or folder that you want to change, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Properties</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.
click on the <guibutton>Icon</guibutton> button, in the <guilabel>Select custom 
icon</guilabel> dialog click <guibutton>Revert</guibutton>.</para>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-102">
      <title>To Change the Size of Items in a View</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>zooming in and out</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>You can change the size of items in a view. You can change
the size if the view displays a file or a folder. You can change the size
of items in a view in the following ways:</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>To enlarge the size of items in a view, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guimenuitem>Zoom In</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>To reduce the size of items in a view, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guimenuitem>Zoom Out</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>To return items in a view to the normal size, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guimenuitem>Normal Size</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
      <para>You can also use the zoom buttons on the location bar in a browser window to change the
size of items in a view. <xref linkend="gosnautilus-TBL-42"/> describes how
to use the zoom buttons.</para>
      <table frame="topbot" id="gosnautilus-TBL-42">
        <title>Zoom Buttons</title>
        <tgroup cols="3" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
          <colspec colname="colspec0" colwidth="21.98*"/>
          <colspec colname="colspec1" colwidth="32.86*"/>
          <colspec colname="colspec2" colwidth="44.17*"/>
          <thead>
            <row rowsep="1">
              <entry>
                <para>Button</para>
              </entry>
              <entry>
                <para>Button Name </para>
              </entry>
              <entry>
                <para>Description</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
          </thead>
          <tbody>
            <row>
              <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                <screenshot>
                  <mediaobject>
                    <imageobject>
                      <imagedata fileref="figures/naut_zoom_out_button.png" format="PNG"/>
                    </imageobject>
                    <textobject>
                      <phrase>Zoom Out button.</phrase>
                    </textobject>
                  </mediaobject>
                </screenshot>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                <para><guibutton>Zoom Out</guibutton> button</para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec2" valign="top">
                <para>Click on this button to reduce the size of items in a view.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry valign="top">
                <screenshot>
                  <mediaobject>
                    <imageobject>
                      <imagedata fileref="figures/naut_normal_size_button.png" format="PNG"/>
                    </imageobject>
                    <textobject>
                      <phrase>Normal Size button.</phrase>
                    </textobject>
                  </mediaobject>
                </screenshot>
              </entry>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para><guibutton>Normal Size</guibutton>
button </para>
              </entry>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Click on this button to return
items in a view to normal size.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                <screenshot>
                  <mediaobject>
                    <imageobject>
                      <imagedata fileref="figures/naut_zoom_in_button.png" format="PNG"/>
                    </imageobject>
                    <textobject>
                      <phrase>Zoom In button.</phrase>
                    </textobject>
                  </mediaobject>
                </screenshot>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                <para><guibutton>Zoom In</guibutton> button</para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec2" valign="top">
                <para>Click on this button to enlarge the size of items in a view.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
          </tbody>
        </tgroup>
      </table>
      <para>The file manager remembers the size of items in a particular folder.
The next time that you display the folder, the items are displayed in the
size that you selected. In other words, when you change the size of items
in a folder, you customize the folder to display the items at that size. To
return the size of the items to the default size specified in your preferences,
choose <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guimenuitem>Reset View
to Defaults</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-7">
      <title>Using Views to Display Your Files and Folders</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>viewer components</primary>
      </indexterm>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>views</secondary>
        <tertiary>introduction</tertiary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>The file manager includes views that enable you to show the contents
of your folders in different ways. For example, you can show the contents
of a folder in the following types of view: </para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Icon view</para>
          <para>Shows the items in the folder as icons.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>List view</para>
          <para>Shows the items in the folder as a list.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
      <para>Use the <guilabel>View</guilabel> menu to choose how to display a file
or folder. You can also use the <guilabel>View as</guilabel> drop-down list
to choose how to display a file or folder. When you display a folder, you
can specify how you want to arrange or sort items in the folder. You can modify
the size of the items in the view pane. The following sections describe how
to work with icon view and list view.</para>
      <sect3 id="gosnautilus-101">
        <title>To Arrange Your Files in Icon View</title>
        <indexterm>
          <primary>file manager</primary>
          <secondary>icon view</secondary>
          <tertiary>arranging files in</tertiary>
        </indexterm>
        <para>When you display
the contents of a folder in icon view, you can specify how to arrange the
items in the folder. To specify how to arrange items in icon view, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guisubmenu>Arrange Items</guisubmenu></menuchoice>.
The <guisubmenu>Arrange Items</guisubmenu> submenu contains the following
sections:</para>
        <itemizedlist>
          <listitem>
            <para>At the top is an option that enables you to arrange
your files manually.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>The middle section contains options that enable you to sort
your files automatically.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>The bottom section contains options that enable you to modify
how your files are arranged.</para>
          </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
        <para>Choose the appropriate options from the submenu, as described in the
following table: </para>
        <informaltable frame="topbot">
          <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
            <colspec colname="colspec6" colwidth="28.75*"/>
            <colspec colname="colspec7" colwidth="71.25*"/>
            <thead>
              <row rowsep="1">
                <entry>
                  <para>Option</para>
                </entry>
                <entry>
                  <para>Description </para>
                </entry>
              </row>
            </thead>
            <tbody>
              <row>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Manually</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>Select this option to arrange the items manually.
To arrange the items manually, drag the items to the location you require
within the view pane.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec6" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>By Name</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec7" valign="top">
                  <para>Select this option to sort the
items alphabetically by name. The order of the items is not case sensitive.
If the file manager is set to display hidden files, the hidden files are shown
last.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec6" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>By Size</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec7" valign="top">
                  <para>Select this option to sort the
items by size, with the largest item first. When you sort items by size, the
folders are sorted by the number of items in the folder. The folders are not
sorted by the total size of the items in the folder.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec6" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>By Type</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec7" valign="top">
                  <para>Select this option to sort the
items alphabetically by object type. The items are sorted alphabetically by
the description of their <firstterm>MIME type</firstterm>. The MIME type identifies
the format of a file, and enables applications to read the file. For example,
an email application can use the <literal>image/png</literal> MIME type to
detect that a PNG file is attached to an email.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec6" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>By Modification
Date</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec7" valign="top">
                  <para>Select this option to sort the items by the date the items were last modified.
The most recently modified item is first.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec6" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>By Emblems</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec7" valign="top">
                  <para>Select this option to sort the
items by any emblems that are added to the items. The items are sorted alphabetically
by emblem name. Items that do not have emblems are last. </para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec6" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Compact Layout</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec7" valign="top">
                  <para>Select
this option to arrange the items so that the items are closer to each other.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Reversed Order</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>Select this option to reverse the order of the option
by which you sort the items. For example, if you sort the items by name, select
the <guilabel>Reversed Order</guilabel> option to sort the items in reverse
alphabetical order.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
            </tbody>
          </tgroup>
        </informaltable>
      </sect3>
      <sect3 id="gosnautilus-listview-arrange">
        <title>To Arrange Your Files in List View</title>
        <indexterm>
          <primary>file manager</primary>
          <secondary>list view</secondary>
          <tertiary>arranging files in</tertiary>
        </indexterm>
        <para>When you display the contents of a folder in list view, you can specify how to arrange the
items in the folder. To specify how to arrange items in list view, click on the header of the column specifying the property
by which you wish to arrange the items. To inverse the sorting order cick on the same colum header again.</para>
        <para>To add or remove colums from the list view choose <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guisubmenu>Visible Columns</guisubmenu></menuchoice></para>
        <para>The file manager remembers how you arrange the items in a particular
folder. The next time that you display the folder, the items are arranged
in the way that you selected.  In other words, when you specify how to arrange
the items in a folder, you customize the folder to display the items in that
way. To return the arrangement settings of the folder to the default arrangement
settings specified in your preferences, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guimenuitem>Reset View to Defaults</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para>
      </sect3>
    </sect2>
  </sect1>
  <sect1 id="gosnautilus-204">
    <title>Assigning Actions to Files</title>
    <indexterm>
      <primary>file manager</primary>
      <secondary>assigning actions to
files</secondary>
    </indexterm>
    <para>When you open a file, the file manager
performs the default action for that file type. By right-clicking on a file you may perform actions other than the default. You can use the file manager to modify the actions that are  associated
with a particular file or file type. </para>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-add-actions">
      <title>To Add Actions</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>adding actions</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>To add actions associated with a file type, perform the
following steps:</para>
      <orderedlist>
        <listitem>
         <para>In the view pane, select
a file of the type to which you want to add an action.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Open with Other Application</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
        <para>Either choose an application in the open with dialog or browse to the program with 
which you wish to open this type.</para>
        </listitem>
      </orderedlist>
       <para>The action you have chosen is now added to the list of actions for that particular file type. If there was 
no prior action associated with the type, the newly added action is the default.</para>
       <para>You may also add actions in the <guilabel>Open With</guilabel> tabbed section under <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Properties</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para>
   </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-75">
      <title>To Modify Actions</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>modifying actions</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>To modify the actions associated with a file or file
type, perform the following steps:</para>
      <orderedlist>
        <listitem>
         <para>In the view pane, select
a file of the type to which you want to modify the action.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Properties</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para>
        </listitem>
       <listitem>
          <para>Choose <guilabel>Open With</guilabel> tabbed section.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Use <guibutton>Add</guibutton> or <guibutton>Remove</guibutton> buttons to tailor the list of actions. 
Select the default action with the option to the left of the list.</para>
        </listitem>
      </orderedlist>
    </sect2>
  </sect1>
  <sect1 id="gosnautilus-15">
    <title>Customizing the File Manager</title>
    <indexterm>
      <primary>file manager</primary>
      <secondary>customizing</secondary>
    </indexterm>
    <para>You can customize the file manager to suit your requirements
and preferences. This section describes how to customize the file manager.</para>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-17">
      <title>Setting Your Preferences</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>preferences</secondary>
        <tertiary>introduction</tertiary>
      </indexterm>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>preferences,
file manager</primary>
        <see>file manager preferences</see>
      </indexterm>
      <para>Use the <guilabel>File Management Preferences</guilabel>  dialog to set preferences
for the file manager. To display the <guilabel>File Management Preferences</guilabel> dialog, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, you can also acess this dialog directly from the <application>Menu Bar</application> 
by choosing <menuchoice><guimenu>Desktop</guimenu><guisubmenu>Preferences</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>File Management</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para>
      <para>You can set preferences in the following categories: </para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>The default settings for views.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>The behavior of files and folders, executable text files,
and Trash.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>The information that is displayed in icon captions and the date format.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>The colums that appear in the list view and their order.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Preview options to improve the performance of the file manager.</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
      <sect3 id="gosnautilus-438">
        <title>To Set Views Preferences</title>
        <indexterm>
          <primary>file manager</primary>
          <secondary>preferences</secondary>
          <tertiary>views</tertiary>
        </indexterm>
        <para>You can specify a default view,
and select sort options and display options. You can also specify default
settings for icon views and list views.</para>
        <para>To specify your default view settings,
choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. Click on the <guilabel>Views</guilabel> tab to
display the <guilabel>Views</guilabel> tabbed section.</para>
        <para><xref linkend="gosnautilus-TBL-30"/> lists the views preferences that
you can modify. </para>
        <table frame="topbot" id="gosnautilus-TBL-30">
          <title>Views Preferences</title>
          <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
            <colspec colname="colspec0" colwidth="35.09*"/>
            <colspec colname="colspec1" colwidth="64.91*"/>
            <thead>
              <row rowsep="1">
                <entry>
                  <para>Dialog Element</para>
                </entry>
                <entry>
                  <para>Description</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
            </thead>
            <tbody>
              <row>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>View new folders using</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>Select the default view for folders. When you open
a folder, the folder is displayed in the view that you select. This can be either the icon view or the list view.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Arrange items</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>Select the characteristic by which you want to sort
the items in folders that are displayed in this view.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Sort folders before files</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1">
                  <para>Select this option to list folders before
files when you sort a folder.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Show hidden and
backup files</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1">
                  <para>Select
this option to display hidden files and backup files in the view pane. The
first character in a hidden filename is a period (.). The last character in
a backup filename is a tilde (~).</para>
                  <para>You can hide files from the
view pane by adding .hidden extension to the filename.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Default zoom level</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                  <para>There are two settings, one for the icon
view and one for the list view. Select the default zoom level for folders that are displayed
in this view. The zoom level specifies the size of items in a view.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Use compact layout</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                  <para>Select
this option to arrange the items in icon view so that the items in the folder
are closer to each other.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Text beside icons</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1">
                  <para>Select this option to place the icon captions
for items beside the icon rather than under the icon.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Show only folders</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1">
                  <para>Select this option to display only folders in the <guilabel>Tree</guilabel> in the side pane.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
            </tbody>
          </tgroup>
        </table>
      </sect3>
      <sect3 id="gosnautilus-56">
        <title>To Set Behavior Preferences</title>
        <indexterm>
          <primary>file manager</primary>
          <secondary>preferences</secondary>
          <tertiary>behavior</tertiary>
        </indexterm>
        <para>To set your preferences for
files and folders, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. Click on the <guilabel>Behavior</guilabel>
tab to display the <guilabel>Behavior</guilabel> tabbed section.</para>
        <para><xref linkend="gosnautilus-TBL-37"/> lists the preferences that you can
modify for files and folders. </para>
        <table frame="topbot" id="gosnautilus-TBL-37">
          <title>File and Folder Behavior Preferences</title>
          <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
            <colspec colname="colspec6" colwidth="35.09*"/>
            <colspec colname="colspec7" colwidth="64.91*"/>
            <thead>
              <row rowsep="1">
                <entry>
                  <para>Option</para>
                </entry>
                <entry>
                  <para>Description </para>
                </entry>
              </row>
            </thead>
            <tbody>
              <row>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Single click to activate items</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>Select this option to perform the default action
for an item when you click on the item. When this option is selected, and
you point to an item, the title of the item is underlined. </para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec6" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Double click to
activate items</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec7" valign="top">
                  <para>Select this option to perform the default action for an item when you double-click
on the item.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>

              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec6" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Always open in browser
windows</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec7" valign="top">
                  <para>Select this option to use nautilus in browser mode
rather than spatial mode. Selecting this lets you browse your files and folders in the same window, otherwise you will navigate your files and folders as objects.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>

              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec6">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Run executable text files when they are clicked</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec7">
                  <para>Select this option to run an text executable file when you choose
the file. An executable text file is a text file that can execute, that
is, a shell script.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec6">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>View executable text files when
they are clicked</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec7">
                  <para>Select this option to display the contents of an executable text file when you
choose the executable text file.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec6" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Ask each time</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec7" valign="top">
                  <para>Select
this option to display a dialog when you choose an executable text file. The dialog
asks whether you want to execute the file or display the file. </para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec6">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Ask before emptying the Trash
or deleting files</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec7">
                  <para>Select this option to display a confirmation message before <guilabel>Trash</guilabel> is emptied, or files are deleted. Leave this selected unless you have good reason not to.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec6" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Include a Delete
command that bypasses Trash</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec7">
                  <para>Select this option to add a <guimenuitem>Delete</guimenuitem> menu item to
the following menus:</para>
                  <itemizedlist>
                    <listitem>
                      <para>The <guimenu>Edit</guimenu> menu.</para>
                    </listitem>
                    <listitem>
                      <para>The popup menu that is displayed when you right-click on a
file, folder, or desktop  object. </para>
                    </listitem>
                  </itemizedlist>
                  <para>When you select an item then choose the <guimenuitem>Delete</guimenuitem> menu item, the item is deleted from your file system
immediately. There is no way to recover a deleted file. Do not select this unless you have good reason to.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
            </tbody>
          </tgroup>
        </table>
      </sect3>
      <sect3 id="gosnautilus-439">
        <title>To Set Display Preferences</title>
        <indexterm>
          <primary>file manager</primary>
          <secondary>icons</secondary>
          <tertiary>caption preferences</tertiary>
        </indexterm>
        <indexterm>
          <primary>file manager</primary>
          <secondary>preferences</secondary>
          <tertiary>icon captions</tertiary>
        </indexterm>
        <para>An icon caption displays the name of a file or folder in
an icon view. The icon caption also includes three additional items of information
on the file or folder. The additional information is displayed after the file
name. Normally only one item of information is visible, but when you zoom
in on an icon, more of the information is displayed. You can modify what additional
information is displayed in icon captions. </para>
        <para>To set your preferences for icon captions, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.
Click on the <guilabel>Display</guilabel> tab to display the <guilabel>Display</guilabel> tabbed section. </para>
        <para>Select the items of information that you want to display in the icon
caption from the three drop-down lists. Select the first item from the first
drop-down list, select the second item from the second drop-down list, and
so on. The following table describes the items of information that you can
select:</para>
        <informaltable frame="topbot">
          <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
            <colspec colname="colspec0" colwidth="35.09*"/>
            <colspec colname="colspec1" colwidth="64.91*"/>
            <thead>
              <row rowsep="1">
                <entry>
                  <para>Information</para>
                </entry>
                <entry>
                  <para>Description </para>
                </entry>
              </row>
            </thead>
            <tbody>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Size</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                  <para>Choose this option to display
the size of the item.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Type</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                  <para>Choose this option to display
the description of the MIME type of the item.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Date modified</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                  <para>Choose
this option to display the last modification date of  the item.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Date accessed</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                  <para>Choose
this option to display the date that the item was last accessed.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Owner</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                  <para>Choose this option to display
the owner of the item.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Group</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                  <para>Choose this option to display
the group to which the item belongs.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Permissions</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                  <para><indexterm><primary>permissions</primary><secondary>displaying as characters</secondary></indexterm>Choose
this option to display the permissions of the item as three sets of three
characters, for example <computeroutput>-rwxrw-r--</computeroutput>.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Octal permissions</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                  <para><indexterm><primary>permissions</primary><secondary>displaying in octal notation</secondary></indexterm>Choose this option to display the permissions of the item in octal
notation, for example <computeroutput>764</computeroutput>. </para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>MIME type</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                  <para>Choose this option to display
the MIME type of the item.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>None</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                  <para>Choose this option to display
no information for the item.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
            </tbody>
          </tgroup>
        </informaltable>
       <para>
        The date <guilabel>Format</guilabel> option lets you choose how the date is displayed throughout Nautilus.
       </para>
      </sect3>
      <sect3 id="gosnautilus-490">
        <title>To Set List Columns Preferences</title>
        <para>You can specify what information is displayed in list view in file manager
windows. You can specify which columns are displayed in list view, and the
order in which the columns are displayed.</para>
        <para>To set your preferences for list columns, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.
Click on the <guilabel>List Columns</guilabel> tab to display the <guilabel>List Columns</guilabel> tabbed section. </para>
        <para>To specify a column to display in list view, select the option that
corresponds to the column, then click on the <guibutton>Show</guibutton> button.
To remove a column from the list view, select the option that corresponds
to the column, then click on the <guibutton>Hide</guibutton> button.</para>
        <para>Use the <guibutton>Move Up</guibutton> and <guibutton>Move Down</guibutton>
buttons to specify the position of columns in list view.</para>
        <para>To use the default columns and column positions, click on the <guibutton>Use Default</guibutton> button. </para>
        <para>The following table describes the columns that you can display:</para>
        <informaltable frame="topbot">
          <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
            <colspec colname="colspec0" colwidth="35.09*"/>
            <colspec colname="colspec1" colwidth="64.91*"/>
            <thead>
              <row rowsep="1">
                <entry>
                  <para>Information</para>
                </entry>
                <entry>
                  <para>Description </para>
                </entry>
              </row>
            </thead>
            <tbody>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Name</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1">
                  <para>Choose this option to display the name of
the item.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Size</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                  <para>Choose this option to display
the size of the item.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Type</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                  <para>Choose this option to display
the description of the MIME type of the item from the <application>File Types
and Programs</application> preference tool.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Date Modified</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                  <para>Choose
this option to display the last modification date of the item.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Date Accessed</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                  <para>Choose
this option to display the date that the item was last accessed.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Group</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1">
                  <para>Choose this option to display the group to
which the item belongs.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>MIME type</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1">
                  <para>Choose this option to display the MIME type
of the item.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Octal Permissions</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1">
                  <para><indexterm><primary>permissions</primary><secondary>displaying in octal notation</secondary></indexterm>Choose this
option to display the permissions of the item in octal notation, for example <computeroutput>764</computeroutput>. </para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Owner</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                  <para>Choose this option to display
the owner of the item.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Permissions</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                  <para><indexterm><primary>permissions</primary><secondary>displaying as characters</secondary></indexterm>Choose
this option to display the permissions of the item as three sets of three
characters, for example <computeroutput>-rwxrw-r--</computeroutput>.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
            </tbody>
          </tgroup>
        </informaltable>
      </sect3>
      <sect3 id="gosnautilus-60">
        <title>To Set Preview Preferences</title>
        <indexterm>
          <primary>file manager</primary>
          <secondary>preferences</secondary>
          <tertiary>preview</tertiary>
        </indexterm>
        <para>The file manager include some
file preview features. The preview features can affect the speed with which
the file manager responds to your requests. You can modify the behavior of
some of these features to improve the speed of the file manager. For each
preview preference, you can select one of the options described in the following
table:</para>
        <informaltable frame="topbot">
          <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
            <colspec colwidth="35.09*"/>
            <colspec colwidth="64.91*"/>
            <thead>
              <row rowsep="1">
                <entry>
                  <para>Option</para>
                </entry>
                <entry>
                  <para>Description </para>
                </entry>
              </row>
            </thead>
            <tbody>
              <row>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Always</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>Performs the action for both local files, and files
on other file systems.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Local Files Only</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>Performs the action for local files only.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Never</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>Never performs the action. </para>
                </entry>
              </row>
            </tbody>
          </tgroup>
        </informaltable>
        <para>To set your preview preferences, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Preferences</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. Click on the <guilabel>Preview</guilabel> tab dialog to display the <guilabel>Preview</guilabel>
tabbed section. </para>
        <para><xref linkend="gosnautilus-TBL-41"/> lists the preview preferences that
you can modify.</para>
        <table frame="topbot" id="gosnautilus-TBL-41">
          <title>Preview Preferences</title>
          <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
            <colspec colname="colspec0" colwidth="35.09*"/>
            <colspec colname="colspec1" colwidth="64.91*"/>
            <thead>
              <row rowsep="1">
                <entry>
                  <para>Dialog Element</para>
                </entry>
                <entry>
                  <para>Description </para>
                </entry>
              </row>
            </thead>
            <tbody>
              <row>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Show text in icons</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>Select an option to specify when to preview the
content of text files in the icon that represents the file. </para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Show thumbnails</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                  <para>Select
an option to specify when to show thumbnails of image files. The file manager
stores the thumbnail files for each folder in a <filename>.thumbnails</filename>
directory in the users home folder.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Only for files smaller than</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1">
                  <para>Specify the maximum
file size for files for which the file manager creates a thumbnail.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Preview sound
files</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                  <para>Select an option to specify when to preview sound files. </para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry colname="colspec0">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Count number of items</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry colname="colspec1">
                  <para>Select an option to specify when to show the
number of items in folders. When in icon view, you might
need to increase your zoom level to see the number of items in each folder.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
            </tbody>
          </tgroup>
        </table>
      </sect3>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="nautilus-backgrounds-and-emblems">
      <title>Changing Backgrounds</title>
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    <anchor id="gosnautilus-50"/>         
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>changing backgrounds</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>backgrounds</primary>
        <secondary>changing screen component</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>The file manager includes
backgrounds that you can use to change the look-and-feel of the following
screen components: </para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Desktop</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Side pane and view pane of file browser windows</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>File object windows</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Panels</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
      <para>To change the background of a screen component perform the following
steps: </para>
      <orderedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Backgrounds and Emblems</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. The <guilabel>Backgrounds
and Emblems</guilabel> dialog is displayed. </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>To display a list of patterns that you can use on the background,
click on the <guibutton>Patterns</guibutton> button. To display a list of
the colors that you can use on the background, click on the <guibutton>Colors</guibutton> button.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>To change the background to a pattern, drag the pattern to
the screen component. To change the background to a color, drag the color
to the screen component. </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Click <guibutton>Close</guibutton> to close the dialog.</para>
        </listitem>
      </orderedlist>
      <para>To reset the background of the view pane or side pane to the default
background, right-click on the background of the pane, then choose <guimenuitem>Use Default Background</guimenuitem>.</para>
      <sect3 id="gosnautilus-63">
        <title>To Add a Pattern</title>
        <indexterm>
          <primary>backgrounds</primary>
          <secondary>adding patterns</secondary>
        </indexterm>
        <para>To add a pattern to the patterns that you can use on your
screen components, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Backgrounds and Emblems</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. Click on the <guibutton>Patterns</guibutton> button, then click on the <guibutton>Add a New Pattern</guibutton> button. A dialog is displayed. Use the dialog to find the new
pattern. Click <guibutton>OK</guibutton> to add the new pattern to the <guilabel>Backgrounds and Emblems</guilabel> dialog.</para>
      </sect3>
      <sect3 id="gosnautilus-64">
        <title>To Add a Color</title>
        <indexterm>
          <primary>backgrounds</primary>
          <secondary>adding colors</secondary>
        </indexterm>
        <para>To add a color to the colors that you can use on your screen
components, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Backgrounds and Emblems</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. Click on the <guibutton>Colors</guibutton> button, then click on the <guibutton>Add a New Color</guibutton>
button. A color selector dialog is displayed. Use the color wheel or the sliders
to choose the color. Click <guibutton>OK</guibutton> to add the new color
to the <guilabel>Backgrounds and Emblems</guilabel> dialog.</para>
      </sect3>
    </sect2>
  </sect1>
  <sect1 id="gosnautilus-28">
    <title>Opening Files</title>
    <indexterm>
      <primary>file manager</primary>
      <secondary>opening files</secondary>
    </indexterm>
    <para>When you open a file, the file manager performs the default
action for that file type.</para>
    <para>The file manager checks the contents of a file to determine the type
of a file. If the first lines do not determine the type of the file, then
the file manager checks the file extension.</para>
    <para>If you cannot find the file that you want to open, you can use <application>Search Tool</application>. To start <application>Search Tool</application>,
choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Places</guimenu><guimenuitem>Search for
Files</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-29">
      <title>To Execute the Default Action</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>executing default actions
for files</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>To execute the default action for a
file, double-click on the file. For example, the default action for plain
text documents is to display the file in a text viewer. In this case, you
can double-click on the file to  display the file in a text viewer.</para>
      <para>You can set your file manager preferences so that you click once on
a file to execute the default action. For more information, see <xref linkend="gosnautilus-56"/>.</para>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-30">
      <title>To Execute Non-Default Actions Using the Open With Submenu</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>executing non-default
actions for files</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>To execute actions other than
the default action for a file,  select the file that you want to perform
an action on. In the <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu></menuchoice> menu you will either have "Open with" choices, or an 
<menuchoice><guimenuitem>Open With</guimenuitem></menuchoice> submenu, see <xref linkend="gosnautilus-204"/> for details about how to add new actions. Select the desired option from this list.</para>
    </sect2>
  </sect1>
  <sect1 id="gosnautilus-515">
    <title>Navigating Your Computer</title>
    <para>The <application>Nautilus</application> file manager provides an integrated
access point to your files, applications, FTP sites, Windows shares, WebDav servers and SSH servers.</para>  
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-37">
      <title>To Access a remote server</title>
      <!-- MOVE THIS ANCHOR -->
      <!-- To Add a Network Server -->
      <anchor id="gosnautilus-466"/>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>FTP sites</primary>
        <secondary>accessing</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>FTP sites</secondary>
        <see>FTP sites</see>
      </indexterm>
      <para>You can use the file manager to access
a remote server, be it an FTP site, a Windows share, a WebDav server or an SSH server.</para>
<para>To access a remote server, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Connect to Server</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.
You may also access this dialog from the menubar by choosing <menuchoice><guimenu>Places</guimenu><guimenuitem>Connect to Server</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para>
<para>In the <guilabel>Connect to Server</guilabel> dialog, you may click on the <guibutton>Browse network</guibutton> button to close this dialog and view services available on your network in a nautilus window.</para>
<para>To connect to a remote server, start by choosing the service type, then enter the server address.</para>
<para>If required by your server, you may provide the following optional information : </para>
            <informaltable frame="topbot">
              <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
                <colspec colname="colspec0" colwidth="27.27*"/>
                <colspec colname="colspec1" colwidth="72.73*"/>
                <thead>
                  <row rowsep="1">
                    <entry>
                      <para>Dialog Element</para>
                    </entry>
                    <entry>
                      <para>Description</para>
                    </entry>
                  </row>
                </thead>
                <tbody>
                  <row>
                    <entry valign="top">
                      <para>
                        <guilabel>Port</guilabel>
                      </para>
                    </entry>
                    <entry valign="top">
                      <para>Port to connect to on the server. This should only be used if it is necesary to
change the default port, you would normally leave this blank.</para>
                    </entry>
                  </row>
                  <row>
                    <entry valign="top">
                      <para>
                        <guilabel>Folder</guilabel>
                      </para>
                    </entry>
                    <entry valign="top">
                        <para>Folder to open upon connecting to server.</para>
                    </entry>
                  </row>
                  <row>
                    <entry colname="colspec0">
                      <para>
                        <guilabel>User Name</guilabel>
                      </para>
                    </entry>
                    <entry colname="colspec1">
                      <para>The user name of the account used to connect to the server.
This should be supplied with the connexion information if needed.
The user name information is not appropriate for a public FTP connexion.</para>
                    </entry>
                  </row>
                  <row>
                    <entry colname="colspec0">
                      <para>
                        <guilabel>Name to use for connection</guilabel>
                      </para>
                    </entry>
                    <entry colname="colspec1">
                      <para>The designation of the connexion as it will appear in the file manager.</para>
                    </entry>
                  </row>
                  <row>
                    <entry colname="colspec0">
                      <para>
                        <guilabel>Share</guilabel>
                      </para>
                    </entry>
                    <entry colname="colspec1">
                      <para>Name of desired windows share. This is only applicable to Windows shares.</para>
                    </entry>
                  </row>
                  <row>
                    <entry colname="colspec0">
                      <para>
                        <guilabel>Domain name</guilabel>
                      </para>
                    </entry>
                    <entry colname="colspec1">
                      <para>Windows domain. This is only applicable to Windows shares.</para>
                    </entry>
                  </row>
                </tbody>
              </tgroup>
            </informaltable>
<para>If the server information is provided in the form of a URI, or you require a specialised connection, choose <menuchoice><guimenuitem>Custom Location</guimenuitem></menuchoice> as the service type.</para>
<para>Once you have filled in the information, click on
the <guibutton>Connect</guibutton> button. When the connection succeeds, the contents of the site are displayed and you may drag and drop files to and from the remote server.</para>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-465">
      <title>To Access Network Places</title>
      <!-- MOVE THIS ANCHOR -->
      <!-- To Add a Network Server -->
      <anchor id="gosnautilus-508"/>
      <anchor id="gosnautilus-509"/>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>network places</primary>
        <secondary>accessing</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>network places</secondary>
        <see>network places</see>
      </indexterm>
      <para>If your system is configured
to access places on a network, you can use the file manager to access the
network places. </para>
      <para>To access network places, open the file manager and choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Places</guimenu><guimenuitem>Computer</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.
Alternatively, double-click on the <guilabel>Computer</guilabel> object on
the Desktop, then double-click on the <guilabel>Network</guilabel> object. A file
manager window is displayed. The window displays the network places that you
can access. Double-click on the network that you want to access. </para>
      <para><indexterm><primary>NFS servers</primary><see>Unix network</see></indexterm>To
access UNIX shares, double-click on the <guilabel>Unix Network (NFS) </guilabel>
object. A list of the UNIX shares available to you is displayed in the file
manager window.</para>
      <para><indexterm><primary>Samba servers</primary><see>Windows network</see></indexterm>To access Windows shares, double-click on the <guilabel>Windows
Network (SMB) </guilabel> object. A list of the Windows shares available to
you is displayed in the file manager window.</para>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-467">
      <title>Accessing Special URI Locations</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>special URI locations</primary>
        <secondary>accessing</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>special URI
locations</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>URI, special</primary>
        <see>special URI locations</see>
      </indexterm>
      <para>The GNOME Desktop contains
special URI locations that enable you to access particular functions from
the file manager. For example, to access fonts, you can access
the <command>fonts:///</command> URI in a file manager window. <xref linkend="gosnautilus-TBL-479"/> lists the special URI locations that you can
use with the file manager.</para>
      <table frame="topbot" id="gosnautilus-TBL-479">
        <title>Special URI Locations</title>
        <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
          <colspec colname="colspec0" colwidth="33.94*"/>
          <colspec colname="colspec1" colwidth="66.06*"/>
          <thead>
            <row rowsep="1">
              <entry>
                <para>URI Location</para>
              </entry>
              <entry>
                <para>Description</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
          </thead>
          <tbody>
            <row>
              <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                <para>
                  <command>fonts:///</command>
                </para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                <para>Displays all the fonts that are
available in your system. To preview a font, double-click on the font. You
can also use this location to add fonts to the GNOME Desktop.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                <para>
                  <command>burn:///</command>
                </para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                <para>This is a special location where you can copy files and folders that you want to write
to a CD. From here you can write the contents of the location to a CD easily.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                <para>
                  <command>network:///</command>
                </para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                <para>Displays network locations to
which you can connect, if your system is configured to access locations on
a network. To access a network location, double-click on the network location.
You can also use this URI to add network locations to your system.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                <para>
                  <command>themes:///</command>
                </para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                <para>Displays all the themes that
are available in the GNOME Desktop. To preview a theme, double-click on the
theme. You can also use this location to add themes to the GNOME Desktop.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
          </tbody>
        </tgroup>
      </table>
    </sect2>
  </sect1>
  <sect1 id="gosnautilus-8">
    <title>Managing Your Files and Folders</title>
    <indexterm>
      <primary>file manager</primary>
      <secondary>managing files and folders</secondary>
    </indexterm>
    <para>This section describes how to work with your
files and folders.</para>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-201">
      <title>Drag-and-Drop in the File Manager</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>drag-and-drop</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>You can use drag-and-drop to perform several tasks in the
file manager. When you drag-and-drop, the mouse pointer provides feedback
about the task that you perform. <xref linkend="gosnautilus-TBL-11"/> describes
the tasks that you can perform with drag-and-drop. The table also shows the
mouse pointers that appear when you drag-and-drop.</para>
      <table frame="topbot" id="gosnautilus-TBL-11">
        <title>Drag-and-Drop in the File Manager</title>
        <tgroup cols="3" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
          <colspec colname="colspec0" colwidth="36.36*"/>
          <colspec colname="colspec2" colwidth="98.56*"/>
          <colspec colname="colspec1" colwidth="28.70*"/>
          <thead>
            <row rowsep="1">
              <entry>
                <para>Task</para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec2">
                <para>Action</para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec1">
                <para>Mouse Pointer</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
          </thead>
          <tbody>
            <row>
              <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                <para>Move an item</para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec2" valign="top">
                <para>Drag the item to the new location.</para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                <screenshot>
                  <mediaobject>
                    <imageobject>
                      <imagedata fileref="figures/move_pointer.png" format="PNG"/>
                    </imageobject>
                    <textobject>
                      <phrase>Move pointer.</phrase>
                    </textobject>
                  </mediaobject>
                </screenshot>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                <para>Copy an item</para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec2" valign="top">
                <para>Grab the item, then press-and-hold <keycap>Ctrl</keycap>. Drag the item to the location where you want the copy to reside.</para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                <screenshot>
                  <mediaobject>
                    <imageobject>
                      <imagedata fileref="figures/copy_pointer.png" format="PNG"/>
                    </imageobject>
                    <textobject>
                      <phrase>Copy pointer.</phrase>
                    </textobject>
                  </mediaobject>
                </screenshot>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                <para>Create a symbolic link to
an item</para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec2" valign="top">
                <para>Grab the
item, then press-and-hold <keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>Shift</keycap></keycombo>.
Drag the item to the location where you want the symbolic link to reside.</para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                <screenshot>
                  <mediaobject>
                    <imageobject>
                      <imagedata fileref="figures/link_pointer.png" format="PNG"/>
                    </imageobject>
                    <textobject>
                      <phrase>Symbolic link pointer.</phrase>
                    </textobject>
                  </mediaobject>
                </screenshot>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                <para>Ask what to do with the
item you drag</para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec2" valign="top">
                <para>Grab the item, then press-and-hold <keycap>Alt</keycap>. You may also use the middle mouse button to perform the same operation.
Drag the item to the location where you want the item to reside. Release the mouse button.
A popup menu appears. Choose one of the following items from the popup menu:</para>
                <itemizedlist>
                  <listitem>
                    <para>
                      <guimenuitem>Move here</guimenuitem>
                    </para>
                    <para>Moves the item to the location.</para>
                  </listitem>
                  <listitem>
                    <para>
                      <guimenuitem>Copy here</guimenuitem>
                    </para>
                    <para>Copies the item to the  location. </para>
                  </listitem>
                  <listitem>
                    <para>
                      <guimenuitem>Link here</guimenuitem>
                    </para>
                    <para>Creates a symbolic link to the item at the location.</para>
                  </listitem>
                  <listitem>
                    <para>
                      <guimenuitem>Set as Background</guimenuitem>
                    </para>
                    <para>If the item is an image, sets the image to be the background.
 You can use this command to set the background of the desktop, the side pane or the view pane.</para>
                  </listitem>
                  <listitem>
                    <para>
                      <guimenuitem>Cancel</guimenuitem>
                    </para>
                    <para>Cancels the drag-and-drop operation.</para>
                  </listitem>
                </itemizedlist>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec1" valign="top">
                <screenshot>
                  <mediaobject>
                    <imageobject>
                      <imagedata fileref="figures/ask_pointer.png" format="PNG"/>
                    </imageobject>
                    <textobject>
                      <phrase>Ask pointer.</phrase>
                    </textobject>
                  </mediaobject>
                </screenshot>
              </entry>
            </row>
          </tbody>
        </tgroup>
      </table>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="nautilus-select">
      <title>To Select Files and Folders</title>
      <!-- placeholder for future section -->
      <anchor id="nautilus-select-pattern"/>         
      <!-- preserve id for backwards compatibility: 2.12 -->
      <anchor id="gosnautilus-202"/>         
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>selecting files and folders</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>You can select files and folders in several
ways in the file manager. <xref linkend="gosnautilus-TBL-10"/> describes how
to select items in file manager windows and on the desktop.</para>
      <table frame="topbot" id="gosnautilus-TBL-10">
        <title>Selecting Items in the File Manager</title>
        <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
          <colspec colname="colspec0" colwidth="36.36*"/>
          <colspec colname="colspec2" colwidth="63.64*"/>
          <thead>
            <row rowsep="1">
              <entry>
                <para>Task</para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec2">
                <para>Action</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
          </thead>
          <tbody>
            <row>
              <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                <para>Select an item</para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec2" valign="top">
                <para>Click on the item.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                <para>Select a group of contiguous
items</para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec2" valign="top">
                <para>In icon view,
drag around the files that you want to select.</para>
                <para>In list view, click
on the first item in the group. Press-and-hold <keycap>Shift</keycap>, then
click on the last item in the group.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                <para>Select multiple items</para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec2" valign="top">
                <para>Press-and-hold <keycap>Ctrl</keycap>.
Click on the items that you want to select.</para>
                <para>Alternatively, press-and-hold <keycap>Ctrl</keycap>, then drag around the files that you want to select.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                <para>Select all items in a folder</para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec2" valign="top">
                <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Select All Files</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
          </tbody>
        </tgroup>
      </table>
      <para>To perform the default action on an item, double-click on the item.
You can set your file manager preferences so that you click once on a file
to execute the default action. For more information, see <xref linkend="gosnautilus-56"/>.</para>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-9">
      <title>To Move a File or Folder</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>moving files and folders</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>The following sections describe the ways that
you can move a file or folder.</para>
      <sect3 id="gosnautilus-537">
        <title>Drag to the New Location</title>
        <para>To drag a file or folder to a new location, perform the following steps:</para>
        <orderedlist>
          <listitem>
            <para>Open two file manager windows. </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>In one window, select the folder from which you want to move
the file or folder. In the other window, select the folder to which you want
to move the file or folder.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>Drag the file or folder that you want to move to the new location
in the other window.</para>
          </listitem>
        </orderedlist>
        <para>To move the file or folder to a folder that is one level below the current
location, do not open a new window. Instead, drag the file or folder to the
new location in the same window.</para>
      </sect3>
      <sect3 id="gosnautilus-538">
        <title>Cut and Paste to the New Location</title>
        <para>You can cut a file or folder and paste the file or folder into another
folder, as follows:</para>
        <orderedlist>
          <listitem>
            <para>Select the file or folder that you want to move, then choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Cut File</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>Open the folder to which you want to move the file or folder,
then choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Paste
Files</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para>
          </listitem>
        </orderedlist>
      </sect3>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-10">
      <title>To Copy a File or Folder</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>copying files and folders</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>The following sections describe the ways that
you can copy a file or folder.</para>
      <sect3 id="gosnautilus-640">
        <title>Drag to the New Location</title>
        <para>To copy a file or folder, perform the following steps:</para>
        <orderedlist>
          <listitem>
            <para>Open two file manager windows. </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>In one window, select the folder from which you want to copy
the file or folder. In the other window, select the folder to which you want
to copy the file or folder.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>Grab the file or folder, then press-and-hold <keycap>Ctrl</keycap>. Drag the file or folder to the new location in the other window.</para>
          </listitem>
        </orderedlist>
        <para>To copy the file or folder to a folder that is one level below the current
location, do not open a new window. Instead, grab the file or folder, then
press-and-hold <keycap>Ctrl</keycap>. Drag the file or folder to the new location
in the same window.</para>
      </sect3>
      <sect3 id="gosnautilus-441">
        <title>Copy and Paste to the New Location</title>
        <para>You can copy a file or folder and paste the file or folder into another
folder, as follows:</para>
        <orderedlist>
          <listitem>
            <para>Select the file or folder that you want to copy, then choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Copy File</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>Open the folder to which you want to copy the file or folder,
then choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Paste
Files</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para>
          </listitem>
        </orderedlist>
      </sect3>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-82">
      <title>To Duplicate a File or Folder</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>duplicating files and
folders</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>To create a copy of a file or folder
in the current folder, perform the following steps:</para>
      <orderedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Select the file or folder that you want to duplicate.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Duplicate</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. Alternatively, right-click on the file
or folder, then choose <guimenuitem>Duplicate</guimenuitem>.</para>
          <para>A copy of the file or folder appears in the current folder.</para>
        </listitem>
      </orderedlist>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-11">
      <title>To Create a Folder</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>creating folders</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>To create a folder, perform the following steps:</para>
      <orderedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Select the folder where you want to create the new folder.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Create Folder</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. Alternatively, right-click
on the background of the window, then choose <guimenuitem>Create Folder</guimenuitem>.</para>
          <para>An <guilabel>untitled</guilabel> folder is added to the location. The
name of the folder is selected.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Type a name for the folder, then press <keycap>Return</keycap>. </para>
        </listitem>
      </orderedlist>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-templates-docs">
      <title>Templates and Documents</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>creating documents</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>You can create templates from documents that you frequently
create. For example, if you often create invoices, you can create an empty
invoice document and save the document as <literal>invoice.doc</literal> in
the <literal>$HOME/Templates</literal> folder.</para>
      <para>You can also access the templates folder from a file browser window.
Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Go</guimenu><guimenuitem>Templates</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para>
      <para>The template name is displayed as a submenu item in the <guilabel>Create
Document</guilabel> menu.</para>
      <para>You can also create subfolders in the template folder. Subfolders display
as submenus in the menu. </para>
      <para>You can also share templates. Create a symbolic link from the template
folder to the folder containing the shared templates. </para>
      <sect3 id="gosnautilus-514">
        <title>To Create a Document</title>
        <para>If you have document templates, you can choose to create a document
from one of the installed templates. </para>
        <para>To create a document perform the following steps:</para>
        <orderedlist>
          <listitem>
            <para>Select the folder where you want to create the new document.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Create Document</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. Alternatively, right-click on
the background of the view pane, then choose <guimenuitem>Create Document</guimenuitem>.</para>
            <para>The names of any available templates are displayed as submenu items
from the <guilabel>Create Document</guilabel> menu.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>Double-click on the template name for the document that you
want to create. </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>Rename the document before saving to the appropriate folder.</para>
          </listitem>
        </orderedlist>
      </sect3>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-12">
      <title>To Rename a File or Folder</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>renaming folders</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>To rename a file or folder perform the following steps:</para>
      <orderedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Select the file or folder that you want to rename.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Rename</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. Alternatively, right-click on the file
or folder, then choose <guimenuitem>Rename</guimenuitem>.</para>
          <para>The name of the file or folder is selected.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Type a new name for the file or folder, then press <keycap>Return</keycap>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </orderedlist>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-13">
      <title>To Move a File or Folder to Trash</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>Trash</secondary>
        <see>Trash</see>
      </indexterm>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>Trash</primary>
        <secondary>moving
files or folders to</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>To move a file or folder
to <guilabel>Trash</guilabel> perform the following steps:</para>
      <orderedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Select the file or folder that you want to move to <guilabel>Trash</guilabel>.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Move to Trash</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. Alternatively, right-click on the
file or folder, then choose <guimenuitem>Move to Trash</guimenuitem>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </orderedlist>
      <para>Alternatively, you can drag the file or folder to the <guilabel>Trash</guilabel> object on the desktop.</para>
      <note>
        <para>When you move a file or folder from a removable media to <guilabel>Trash</guilabel>, the file or folder is stored in a <guilabel>Trash</guilabel>
location on the removable media. To remove the file or folder permanently
from the removable media, you must empty <guilabel>Trash</guilabel>.</para>
      </note>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-443">
      <title>To Delete a File or Folder</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>deleting files or folders</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>When you delete a file or folder, the file or
folder is not moved to <guilabel>Trash</guilabel>, but is deleted from your
file system immediately. The <guimenuitem>Delete</guimenuitem> menu item is
only available if you select the <guilabel>Include a Delete command that bypasses
Trash</guilabel> option in the <guilabel>File Management Preferences</guilabel>
 dialog. </para>
      <para>To delete a file or folder perform the following steps:</para>
      <orderedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Select the file or folder that you want to delete.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Delete</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. Alternatively, right-click on the file
or folder, then choose <guimenuitem>Delete</guimenuitem>.</para>
        </listitem>
      </orderedlist>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-14">
      <title>To Create a Symbolic Link to a File or Folder</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>creating symbolic link</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>symbolic link</primary>
        <secondary>to file or folder, creating</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>A symbolic link is
a special type of file that points to another file or folder. When you perform
an action on a symbolic link, the action is performed on the file or folder
to which the symbolic link points. However, when you delete a symbolic link,
you delete the link file, not the file to which the symbolic link points.</para>
      <para>To create a symbolic link to a file or folder, select the file or folder
to which you want to create a link. Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Edit</guimenu><guimenuitem>Make Link</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. A link to the
file or folder is added to the current folder. </para>
      <para>Alternatively, grab the item to which you want to create a link, then
press-and-hold <keycombo><keycap>Ctrl</keycap><keycap>Shift</keycap></keycombo>. Drag the item
to the location where you want to place the link.</para>
      <para>By default, the file manager adds an emblem to symbolic links.</para>
      <note>
        <para>The permissions of a symbolic link are determined by the file
or folder to which a symbolic link points.</para>
      </note>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-476">
      <title>To View the Properties of a File or Folder</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>viewing properties</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>To view the properties of a file or folder, perform the
following steps:</para>
      <orderedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Select the file or folder whose properties you want to view. </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Properties</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. A properties dialog is displayed.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Use the properties dialog to view the properties of the file
or folder. </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Click <guibutton>Close</guibutton> to close the properties
dialog.</para>
        </listitem>
      </orderedlist>

      <para>The following table lists the properties that you can view or set for files and folders, the exact information shown depends on the object type:</para>
      <informaltable frame="topbot">
        <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
          <colspec colwidth="27.27*"/>
          <colspec colwidth="72.73*"/>
          <thead>
            <row rowsep="1">
              <entry>
                <para>Property</para>
              </entry>
              <entry>
                <para>Description</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
          </thead>
          <tbody>
            <row>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Name</para>
              </entry>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>The name of the file or folder. You can change the name here and the file or folder will be renamed when you click on <guibutton>Close</guibutton>.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Type</para>
              </entry>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>The type of object, file or folder for example.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Location</para>
              </entry>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>The system path for the object. This represents where the object is situated on your computer, relative to the system root.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Volume</para>
              </entry>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>The volume on which a folder resides. This is the physical location of the folder, on which media it resides, for example which hard disk or CDROM drive.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Free space</para>
              </entry>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>The amount of free space on the media upon which a folder resides. This represents the maximum amount of data you can copy to this folder.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>MIME Type</para>
              </entry>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>The official naming of the type of file.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Modified</para>
              </entry>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>The date and time at which the object was last changed.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Accessed</para>
              </entry>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>The date and time at which the object was last viewed.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
          </tbody>
        </tgroup>
      </informaltable>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="nautilus-permissions">
      <title>To Change Permissions</title>
      <!-- preserve id for backwards compatibility: 2.12 -->
      <anchor id="gosnautilus-430"/>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>permissions</primary>
        <secondary>introduction</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>Permissions are settings assigned to each file and folder
that determine what type of access users can have to the file or folder. The
following table lists the permissions that you can set for files and folders,
and the effect of the permission on files and folders:</para>
      <informaltable frame="topbot">
        <tgroup cols="3" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
          <colspec colwidth="29.62*"/>
          <colspec colwidth="74.59*"/>
          <colspec colname="colspec0" colwidth="74.59*"/>
          <thead>
            <row rowsep="1">
              <entry>
                <para>Permission</para>
              </entry>
              <entry>
                <para>File</para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec0">
                <para>Folder</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
          </thead>
          <tbody>
            <row>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Read</para>
              </entry>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Permission to read the file.</para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                <para>Permission to list the contents of the folder.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Write</para>
              </entry>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Permission to make changes to the file. </para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                <para>Permission to create and delete files in the folder.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Execute</para>
              </entry>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Permission to run the file as a program. This is only relevant if the file
is a program or script.</para>
              </entry>
              <entry colname="colspec0" valign="top">
                <para>Permission to access files in the directory.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
          </tbody>
        </tgroup>
      </informaltable>
      <para>You can set permissions for different types of user. The following table
lists the types of user for which you can set permissions:</para>
      <informaltable frame="topbot">
        <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
          <colspec colwidth="27.27*"/>
          <colspec colwidth="72.73*"/>
          <thead>
            <row rowsep="1">
              <entry>
                <para>User Category</para>
              </entry>
              <entry>
                <para>Description</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
          </thead>
          <tbody>
            <row>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Owner</para>
              </entry>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>The user that created the file or folder.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Group</para>
              </entry>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>The group to which the owner belongs.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
            <row>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>Others</para>
              </entry>
              <entry valign="top">
                <para>All other users who are not in the group to which the owner belongs.</para>
              </entry>
            </row>
          </tbody>
        </tgroup>
      </informaltable>
      <para><indexterm><primary>file manager</primary><secondary>changing permissions</secondary></indexterm><indexterm><primary>permissions</primary><secondary>changing file and folder</secondary></indexterm>To change the permissions
on a file or folder perform the following steps:</para>
      <orderedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Select the file or folder that you want to change. </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Properties</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. A properties dialog is displayed.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Click on the <guilabel>Permissions</guilabel> tab. In the <guilabel>Permissions</guilabel> tabbed section, use the drop-down lists and check boxes
to change the permissions for the file or folder. The following table describes
the dialog elements on the <guilabel>Permissions</guilabel> tabbed section: </para>
          <informaltable frame="topbot">
            <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
              <colspec colwidth="37.78*"/>
              <colspec colwidth="62.22*"/>
              <thead>
                <row rowsep="1">
                  <entry>
                    <para>Element</para>
                  </entry>
                  <entry>
                    <para>Description</para>
                  </entry>
                </row>
              </thead>
              <tbody>
                <row>
                  <entry valign="top">
                    <para>
                      <guilabel>File owner</guilabel>
                    </para>
                  </entry>
                  <entry valign="top">
                    <para>To change the owner of the file or folder, select
the owner from the drop-down list. </para>
                  </entry>
                </row>
                <row>
                  <entry valign="top">
                    <para>
                      <guilabel>File group</guilabel>
                    </para>
                  </entry>
                  <entry valign="top">
                    <para>To change the group to which a file or folder belongs,
select the group from the drop-down list. </para>
                  </entry>
                </row>
                <row>
                  <entry valign="top">
                    <para>
                      <guilabel>Owner</guilabel>
                    </para>
                  </entry>
                  <entry valign="top">
                    <para>Select the permissions that you want to apply to the owner
of the file or folder.</para>
                  </entry>
                </row>
                <row>
                  <entry valign="top">
                    <para>
                      <guilabel>Group</guilabel>
                    </para>
                  </entry>
                  <entry valign="top">
                    <para>Select the permissions that you want to apply to the group
to which the owner of the file or folder belongs.</para>
                  </entry>
                </row>
                <row>
                  <entry valign="top">
                    <para>
                      <guilabel>Others</guilabel>
                    </para>
                  </entry>
                  <entry valign="top">
                    <para>Select the permissions that you want to apply to
all other users who are not in the group to which the owner belongs.</para>
                  </entry>
                </row>
                <row>
                  <entry valign="top">
                    <para>
                      <guilabel>Text view</guilabel>
                    </para>
                  </entry>
                  <entry valign="top">
                    <para>Displays the permissions that you select from the <guilabel>Read</guilabel>, <guilabel>Write</guilabel>, and <guilabel>Execute</guilabel>
options, in text format.</para>
                  </entry>
                </row>
                <row>
                  <entry valign="top">
                    <para>
                      <guilabel>Number view</guilabel>
                    </para>
                  </entry>
                  <entry valign="top">
                    <para>Displays the permissions that you select from the <guilabel>Read</guilabel>, <guilabel>Write</guilabel>, and <guilabel>Execute</guilabel>
options, in text format.</para>
                  </entry>
                </row>
                <row>
                  <entry valign="top">
                    <para>
                      <guilabel>Last changed</guilabel>
                    </para>
                  </entry>
                  <entry valign="top">
                    <para>Displays the date and time that the file or folder
was last modified.</para>
                  </entry>
                </row>
              </tbody>
            </tgroup>
          </informaltable>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Click <guibutton>Close</guibutton> to close the properties
dialog.</para>
        </listitem>
      </orderedlist>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-200">
      <title>Adding Notes to Files and Folders</title>
      <para>You can add notes to files or folders. You can add notes to files or
folders in the following ways:</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>From the properties dialog</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>From <guilabel>Notes</guilabel> in the side pane</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
      <sect3 id="gosnautilus-472">
        <title>To Add a Note Using the Properties Dialog</title>
        <indexterm>
          <primary>notes</primary>
          <secondary>adding to files and folders</secondary>
        </indexterm>
        <indexterm>
          <primary>file manager</primary>
          <secondary>notes</secondary>
          <tertiary>adding</tertiary>
        </indexterm>
        <para>To add a note
to a file or folder, perform the following steps:</para>
        <orderedlist>
          <listitem>
            <para>Select the file or folder to which you want to add a note. </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Properties</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. A properties dialog is displayed.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>Click on the <guilabel>Notes</guilabel> tab. In the <guilabel>Notes</guilabel> tabbed section, type the note.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>Click <guibutton>Close</guibutton> to close the properties
dialog. A note emblem is added to the file or folder.</para>
          </listitem>
        </orderedlist>
        <para><indexterm><primary>notes</primary><secondary>deleting</secondary></indexterm><indexterm><primary>file manager</primary><secondary>notes</secondary><tertiary>deleting</tertiary></indexterm>To delete a note, delete the note text from the <guilabel>Notes</guilabel> tabbed section.</para>
      </sect3>
      <sect3 id="gosnautilus-473">
        <title>To Add a Note Using Notes in the Side Pane</title>
        <para>To add a note to a file or folder, perform the following steps:</para>
        <orderedlist>
          <listitem>
            <para>Open the file or folder to which you want to add a note in
the view pane.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>Choose <guilabel>Notes</guilabel> from the drop-down list
at the top of the side pane. To display the side pane, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guimenuitem>Side Pane</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>Type the note in the side pane. A note emblem is added to
the file or folder in the view pane, and a note icon is added to the side
pane. You can click on this icon to display the note.</para>
          </listitem>
        </orderedlist>
        <para>To delete a note, delete the note text from <guilabel>Notes</guilabel>
in the side pane.</para>
      </sect3>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-36">
      <title>Using Bookmarks For Your Favorite Locations</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>file manager</primary>
        <secondary>bookmarks</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>To access an item in your bookmarks, choose the item from
the <guimenu>Bookmarks</guimenu> menu. You can add your favorite locations
to your <guimenu>Bookmarks</guimenu> menu. You can add bookmarks to files
and folders in your file system, to FTP sites, or to URI locations.</para>
      <sect3 id="gosnautilus-40">
        <title>To Add a Bookmark</title>
        <para>To add a bookmark, display the item that you want to bookmark in the
view pane, then choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Bookmarks</guimenu><guimenuitem>Add Bookmark</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para>
      </sect3>
      <sect3 id="gosnautilus-41">
        <title>To Edit a Bookmark</title>
        <para>To edit your bookmarks perform the following steps:</para>
        <orderedlist>
          <listitem>
            <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Bookmarks</guimenu><guimenuitem>Edit Bookmarks</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. An <guilabel>Edit Bookmarks</guilabel>
dialog is displayed. </para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>To edit a bookmark, select the bookmark on the left side of
the <guilabel>Edit Bookmarks</guilabel> dialog. Edit the details for the bookmark
on the right side of the <guilabel>Edit Bookmarks</guilabel> dialog, as follows:</para>
            <informaltable frame="topbot">
              <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
                <colspec colwidth="27.27*"/>
                <colspec colwidth="72.73*"/>
                <thead>
                  <row rowsep="1">
                    <entry>
                      <para>Dialog Element</para>
                    </entry>
                    <entry>
                      <para>Description </para>
                    </entry>
                  </row>
                </thead>
                <tbody>
                  <row>
                    <entry valign="top">
                      <para>
                        <guilabel>Name</guilabel>
                      </para>
                    </entry>
                    <entry valign="top">
                      <para>Use this text box to specify the name that identifies the
bookmark in the <guimenu>Bookmarks</guimenu> menu.</para>
                    </entry>
                  </row>
                  <row>
                    <entry valign="top">
                      <para>
                        <guilabel>Location</guilabel>
                      </para>
                    </entry>
                    <entry valign="top">
                      <para>Use this field to specify the location of the bookmark.</para>
                    </entry>
                  </row>
                </tbody>
              </tgroup>
            </informaltable>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>To delete a bookmark, select the bookmark on the left side
of the dialog. Click <guilabel>Delete</guilabel>. </para>
          </listitem>
        </orderedlist>
      </sect3>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-44">
      <title>Using Trash</title>
      <screenshot>
        <mediaobject>
          <imageobject>
            <imagedata fileref="figures/naut_trash_launcher.png" format="PNG"/>
          </imageobject>
          <textobject>
            <phrase>Trash icon, empty.</phrase>
          </textobject>
        </mediaobject>
      </screenshot>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>Trash</primary>
        <secondary>introduction</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>Trash is a special folder that holds files that you no longer want to keep.
Files in the Trash are not deleted permanently until you empty the trash. This two-stage process is in 
case you change your mind, or accidentally remove the wrong file.</para>
      <para>You can move the following items to <guilabel>Trash</guilabel>:</para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Files</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Folders</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Desktop objects</para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
      <para>If you need to retrieve a file from <guilabel>Trash</guilabel>, you
can display <guilabel>Trash</guilabel> and move the file out of <guilabel>Trash</guilabel>. When you empty <guilabel>Trash</guilabel>, you delete the
contents of <guilabel>Trash</guilabel> permanently. </para>
      <sect3 id="gosnautilus-107">
        <title>To Display Trash</title>
        <indexterm>
          <primary>Trash</primary>
          <secondary>displaying</secondary>
        </indexterm>
        <para>You can display the contents of <guilabel>Trash</guilabel> in the following
ways:</para>
        <itemizedlist>
          <listitem>
            <para>From a file browser window</para>
            <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Go</guimenu><guimenuitem>Trash</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. The contents of <guilabel>Trash</guilabel> are displayed in
the window.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>From a file object window</para>
            <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Places</guimenu><guimenuitem>Trash</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. The contents of <guilabel>Trash</guilabel> are
displayed in the window.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>From the desktop</para>
            <para>Double-click on the <guilabel>Trash</guilabel> object on the desktop.</para>
          </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
      </sect3>
      <sect3 id="gosnautilus-108">
        <title>To Empty Trash</title>
        <indexterm>
          <primary>Trash</primary>
          <secondary>emptying</secondary>
        </indexterm>
        <para>You can empty the contents of <guilabel>Trash</guilabel> in the following
ways:</para>
        <itemizedlist>
          <listitem>
            <para>From a file browser window</para>
            <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Empty
Trash</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.</para>
          </listitem>
          <listitem>
            <para>From the desktop</para>
            <para>Right-click on the <guilabel>Trash</guilabel> object, then choose <guimenuitem>Empty Trash</guimenuitem>.</para>
          </listitem>
        </itemizedlist>
   <caution>
    <para>When you empty trash, you destroy all files in the trash. Be sure that the trash only contains files
you no longer need.
    </para>
   </caution>
      </sect3>
    </sect2>
  </sect1>
  <sect1 id="gosnautilus-460">
    <title>Using Removable Media</title>
    <indexterm>
      <primary>removable media</primary>
      <secondary>introduction</secondary>
    </indexterm>
    <para>The file manager supports all removable media that have
the following characteristics: </para>
    <itemizedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>The removable media has an entry in the <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> file. The <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> file describes the file
systems that the computer uses.</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>The <literal>user</literal> option is specified in the entry
for the removable media in the <filename>/etc/fstab</filename> file.</para>
      </listitem>
    </itemizedlist>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-462">
      <title>To Mount Media</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>removable media</primary>
        <secondary>mounting</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>To <firstterm>mount</firstterm> media is to make the file
system of the media available for access. When you mount media, the file system
of the media is attached as a subdirectory to your file system.</para>
      <para>To mount media, insert the media in the appropriate device. An object
that represents the media is added to the desktop. The object is added only
if your system is configured to mount the device automatically when media
is detected. </para>
      <para>If your system is not configured to mount the device automatically,
you must mount the device manually. Double-click on the <guilabel>Computer</guilabel> icon from the desktop. A <guilabel>Computer </guilabel> dialog
is displayed. Double-click on the object that represents the media. For example,
to mount a floppy diskette, double-click on the <guilabel>Floppy</guilabel>
object. An object that represents the media is added to the desktop. </para>
      <note>
        <para>You cannot change the name of a removable media object.</para>
      </note>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-461">
      <title>To Display Media Contents</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>removable media</primary>
        <secondary>displaying media contents</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>You can display media contents in any of the
following ways: </para>
      <itemizedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Double-click on the object that represents the media on the
desktop. </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Right-click on the object that represents the media on the
desktop, then choose <guimenuitem>Open</guimenuitem>. </para>
        </listitem>
      </itemizedlist>
      <para>A file manager window displays the contents of the media. To reload
the display, click on the <guibutton>Reload</guibutton> button.</para>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-463">
      <title>To Display Media Properties</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>removable media</primary>
        <secondary>displaying media properties</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>To display the properties of removable media,
right-click on the object that represents the media on the desktop, then choose <guimenuitem>Properties</guimenuitem>. A dialog displays the properties of the media.</para>
      <para>To close the properties dialog, click <guibutton>Close</guibutton>.</para>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-469">
      <title>To Format a Floppy Disk</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>removable media</primary>
        <secondary>formatting floppy
diskette</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>To <firstterm>format</firstterm> media
is to prepare the media for use. You can use
the file manager to format floppy disks.</para>

   <warning>
    <title>Warning</title>
    <para>
     When you format, you destroy all files on your floppy disk. Do not format floppies
     containing files you wish to keep.
    </para>
   </warning>

   <para>To format a floppy disk, right-click on the object that represents the floppy on
the desktop, then choose <guimenuitem>Format</guimenuitem>. A <guilabel>Floppy
Formatter</guilabel> dialog is displayed. See the <ulink type="help" url="ghelp:gfloppy?usage">Floppy
Formatter</ulink> documentation for more details.</para>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-464">
      <title>To Eject Media</title>
      <indexterm>
        <primary>removable media</primary>
        <secondary>ejecting</secondary>
      </indexterm>
      <para>To eject media, right-click on the media object on the desktop,
then choose <guimenuitem>Eject</guimenuitem>. If the drive for the media is
a motorized drive, the media is ejected from the drive. If the drive for the
media is not motorized, wait until the desktop object for the media disappears,
then eject the media manually.</para>
      <para>You cannot eject media from a motorized drive when the media is mounted.
To eject media, first unmount the media. To remove a floppy diskette from
the drive, perform the following steps:</para>
      <orderedlist>
        <listitem>
          <para>Close all file manager windows, <application>Terminal</application>
windows, and any other windows that access the diskette. </para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Right-click on the object that represents the diskette on
the desktop, then choose <guimenuitem>Eject</guimenuitem>. The desktop object
for the diskette disappears.</para>
        </listitem>
        <listitem>
          <para>Eject the diskette from the drive.</para>
        </listitem>
      </orderedlist>
          <caution>
            <para>You must unmount removable media before ejecting. Do not eject a diskette from the drive before you unmount
the diskette. Do not remove a USB flash drive before you unmount the flash drive. If you do not unmount the media first you might lose data.</para>
          </caution>
    </sect2>
  </sect1>
  <sect1 id="gosnautilus-475">
    <title>Writing CDs or DVDs</title>
    <indexterm>
      <primary>file manager</primary>
      <secondary>writing CDs</secondary>
    </indexterm>
    <indexterm>
      <primary>CDs, writing</primary>
    </indexterm>
    <indexterm>
      <primary>writing CDs</primary>
    </indexterm>
    <indexterm>
      <primary>burning CDs</primary>
      <see>writing CDs</see>
    </indexterm>
    <para>The file manager provides
a special location for files and folders that you want to write
to a CD or DVD. From here you can write the contents of the location to a CD or DVD easily.</para>
    <para>To write a CD or DVD, perform the following steps:</para>
    <orderedlist>
      <listitem>
        <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>Go</guimenu><guimenuitem>CD/DVD Creator</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. The file manager opens a special location, <guilabel>burn:///</guilabel>, from which you can write CDs or DVDs. </para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Drag the files and folders that you want to write to CD or DVD to
the <guilabel>burn:///</guilabel> location.</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Insert a writable CD or DVD into the CD/DVD writer device on your system.</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Write to CD/DVD</guimenuitem></menuchoice>. A <guilabel>Write to Disc</guilabel> dialog is displayed.</para>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Use the <guilabel>Write to Disc</guilabel>
dialog to specify how you want to write the CD, as follows:</para>
        <informaltable frame="topbot">
          <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
            <colspec colwidth="50*"/>
            <colspec colwidth="50*"/>
            <thead>
              <row rowsep="1">
                <entry>
                  <para>Dialog Element</para>
                </entry>
                <entry>
                  <para>Description</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
            </thead>
            <tbody>
              <row>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Write disc to</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>Select the device to which you want to write the
CD from the drop-down list. To create an CD image file for the files and folders,
select the <guilabel>File image</guilabel> option.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Disc name</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>Type a name for the CD in the text box.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Data size</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>Shows the size of the data to be written to disc.
The blank disk must be at least this size.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>Write speed</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>Select the speed at which you want to write the
CD from the drop-down list.</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
            </tbody>
          </tgroup>
        </informaltable>
      </listitem>
      <listitem>
        <para>Click on the <guibutton>Write</guibutton> button. </para>
        <para>If you selected the <guilabel>File image</guilabel> option from the <guilabel>Target to write to</guilabel> drop-down list, a <guilabel>Choose a filename
for the disc image</guilabel> dialog is displayed. Use the dialog to specify
the location where you want to save the disc image file. By default, disc image
files have a <filename>.iso</filename> file extension.</para>
        <para>A <guilabel>Writing disc</guilabel> dialog is displayed. When the disc is
written or when the disc image file is created, a message to indicate that the
process is complete is displayed in the dialog.</para>
        <para>If you created a disc image file, you can write this file to a blank disc. To
write a disc image, right-click on the disc image file, then choose <guimenuitem>Write to Disc</guimenuitem> from the popup menu.</para>
      </listitem>
    </orderedlist>
  </sect1>
  <sect1 id="gosnautilus-440">
    <title>File Manager Scripts</title>
    <indexterm>
      <primary>file manager</primary>
      <secondary>running scripts</secondary>
    </indexterm>
    <indexterm>
      <primary>scripts, running from file manager</primary>
    </indexterm>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-444">
      <title>Running Scripts From the File Manager</title>
      <para>To run a script
choose <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Scripts</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, then choose the script that you want to run from the submenu.</para>
      <para>To run a script on a particular file, select the file in the view pane.
Choose <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guimenuitem>Scripts</guimenuitem></menuchoice>, then choose the script that you want to run on the file from
the submenu. You can also select multiple files to run your scripts on.</para>
      <para>You may also access scripts from the context menu.</para>
      <note>
        <para>If you do not have any scripts installed, the script menu will not appear.</para>
      </note>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-install-scripts">
      <title>Installing File Manager Scripts</title>
        <para>The file manager includes a special folder where you can
store your scripts. All executable files in this folder will appear in the Scripts menu. The script folder 
is located at $HOME/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts.</para>
        <para>To install a script, simply copy the script to the script folder and give it the user executable permission.</para>
      <para>To view the contents of your scripts folder, if you allready have scripts installed, choose <menuchoice><guimenu>File</guimenu><guisubmenu>Scripts</guisubmenu><guimenuitem>Open Scripts Folder</guimenuitem></menuchoice>.
You will have to navigate to the scripts folder with the file manager if you do not yet have any scripts. You may need to show hidden files for this, use <menuchoice><guimenu>View</guimenu><guimenuitem>Show Hidden Files</guimenuitem></menuchoice></para>
    </sect2>
    <sect2 id="gosnautilus-write-scripts">
      <title>Writing File Manager Scripts</title>
       <para>When executed from a local folder, scripts will be passed the selected file names. When 
executed from a remote folder (e.g. a folder showing web or ftp content), scripts will be passed no parameters.</para>
       <para>The following table shows variables passed to the script :</para>
       <informaltable frame="topbot">
          <tgroup cols="2" colsep="0" rowsep="0">
            <colspec colwidth="50*"/>
            <colspec colwidth="50*"/>
            <thead>
              <row rowsep="1">
                <entry>
                  <para>Environment variable</para>
                </entry>
                <entry>
                  <para>Description</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
            </thead>
            <tbody>
              <row>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>newline-delimited paths for selected files (only if local)</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_URIS</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>newline-delimited URIs for selected files</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_CURRENT_URI</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>URI for current location</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
              <row>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>
                    <guilabel>NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_WINDOW_GEOMETRY</guilabel>
                  </para>
                </entry>
                <entry valign="top">
                  <para>position and size of current window</para>
                </entry>
              </row>
            </tbody>
          </tgroup>
        </informaltable>
    </sect2>
  </sect1>
</chapter>