Desktop customization

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Terminal Here

While graphical file browsers offer luxuries such as file previews, they cannot match the power of the commandline. Below are some ways to speedily access the command line in the directory you are currently navigating.

Gnome

The Nautilus open terminal plugin is a very handy plugin to the Gnome file manager, Nautilus. With it, you can right-click in any folder and choose to open a terminal in that directory. To install it, follow the steps below"

$ sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal

KDE

In KDE4, select Tools->Open Terminal or press shift+f4.

Windows XP

In Windows XP, you can install the Open Command Window Here PowerToy.