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This was easy in Thunar, but now I'm on a machine where I'm trying to do everything in the Gnome desktop world.

In Nautilus, I'm in some deep-down folder. How do I open an xterm (rxvt, aterm, gnome's terminal app, whichever) with its working directory already set to the location Nautilus is showing?

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There is a very useful Nautilus extension called nautilus-open-terminal that does just what you asked. You should find it in the standard repositories.

Once installed you should have a "Open in terminal" entry in the File menu.

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Added it using Synaptic. Still don't see any "open terminal here" or similar command. –  DarenW Mar 6 '11 at 22:48
@DarenW: sorry, I forgot to specify, it adds an entry in the File menu. –  nico Mar 6 '11 at 22:56
You will also need to restart nautilus. –  Kim Mar 7 '11 at 2:54
@Kim: ah, now it works! It took me a long time to realize that the whole desktop is really a view in Nautilus, so I had log out and back in. I see what I want in File and also the right-click menu. :) –  DarenW Mar 7 '11 at 3:22
@DarenW: another way to do it, without restarting would have been killall nautilus. This would have killed all the instances of nautilus, which then should have restarted automagically ;) –  nico Mar 7 '11 at 6:56

A more general feature that works with both Dolphin/Nautilus and some Terminals like Gnome Terminal or Konsole is to just drag a folder over the terminal. This will give you a quoted path to the folder. You can use this after a cd command or other commands like cp, mv, ln, or whatever you might want.

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