Nautilus question

**dona-pietro** · February 26th, 2016

Sorry if this is the wrong place where to post the question.

Can I open a nautilus window with custom content? e.g. I have a list of files with different paths

Code:

/place1/file1.pdf
/place2/file2.txt
/place3/file3.avi

And I would like to open a new nautilus windows with those three files as content!

Thank you

Pietro

**Bucky Ball** · February 26th, 2016

Welcome. I can't see how you'd do that unless you put all those files in the same folder. But then they wouldn't be in different places.

What you're wanting to do is not really the way things work with Nautilus (or any file browser I know of). You could, though, open a folder in Nautilus, hit control+t to open a new tab and go to the location of your second file, open a third tab and go to the third file ... etc.

About the best I can offer. Curious to see what others throw in ...

**mc4man** · February 26th, 2016

Taking "content" literally, no. Nautilus is a file manager not a pdf or text reader or media player. The 'canvas' that it uses to display icons in is set in the source & marginally affected by theme.

**howefield** · February 26th, 2016

Not sure if you could script something that opened one window with 3 tabs., each tab opening the folder containing the relevant file(s). Too much work for dubious results for me though

What about creating symlinks to the files ?

**Bucky Ball** · February 27th, 2016

Originally Posted by howefield

What about creating symlinks to the files ?

Nicely. Yea, that could work ...

Code:

ln -s 'location to link to' 'name of symlink'

Create a folder, say called /home/folder. Then, replacing your files, do:

Code:

ln -s /path/to/file1 /home/folder/file1

Replace '/path/to/file1' with you real details and path to the file (and same for second path to symlink folder). The command above won't move file1 to folder but it will put a link to file1 in folder which, when you click it, opens file1. Repeat for any other files you want in that folder.