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type="topic" style="ui"
id="nautilus-behavior">
<info>
<link type="guide" xref="nautilus-prefs" group="nautilus-behavior"/>
<desc>Single-click to open files, run or view executable
text files, and specify trash behavior.</desc>
<revision pkgversion="3.5.92" version="0.2" date="2012-09-19" status="review"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.18" date="2015-09-29" status="candidate"/>
<revision pkgversion="3.33.3" date="2019-07-19" status="candidate"/>
<credit type="author">
<name>Tiffany Antopolski</name>
<email>tiffany@antopolski.com</email>
</credit>
<credit type="author">
<name>Shaun McCance</name>
<email>shaunm@gnome.org</email>
</credit>
<credit type="editor">
<name>Michael Hill</name>
<email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
</credit>
<credit type="editor">
<name>Sindhu S</name>
<email>sindhus@live.in</email>
</credit>
<credit type="editor">
<name>David King</name>
<email>amigadave@amigadave.com</email>
</credit>
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<title>File manager behavior preferences</title>
<p>You can control whether you single-click or double-click files, how
executable text files are handled, and the trash behavior. Click the menu
button in the sidebar of the window, select <gui>Preferences</gui>,
then go to the <gui>General</gui> section.</p>
<section id="behavior">
<title>General</title>
<terms>
<item>
<title><gui>Action to Open Items</gui></title>
<p>By default, clicking selects files and double-clicking opens them.
You can instead choose to have files and folders open when you click on
them once. When you use single-click mode, you can hold down the
<key>Ctrl</key> key while clicking to select one or more files.</p>
</item>
</terms>
</section>
<section id="executable">
<title>Executable text files</title>
<p>An executable text file is a file that contains a program that you can run
(execute). The <link xref="nautilus-file-properties-permissions">file
permissions</link> must also allow for the file to run as a program. The most
common are <sys>Shell</sys>, <sys>Python</sys> and <sys>Perl</sys> scripts.
These have extensions <file>.sh</file>, <file>.py</file> and <file>.pl</file>,
respectively.</p>
<comment>
<cite date="2015-09-29">amigadave</cite>
<p>This "section" should be split out to a separate page. It is not related
to the preferences nor behaviour settings of Nautilus, although it could be a
a seealso link from this page.</p>
</comment>
<p>Executable text files are also called <em>scripts</em>. All scripts in the
<file>~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts</file> folder will appear in the context
menu for a file under the <gui style="menuitem">Scripts</gui> submenu. When a
script is executed from a local folder, all selected files will be pasted to
the script as parameters. To execute a script on a file:</p>
<steps>
<item>
<p>Navigate to the desired folder.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Select the desired file.</p>
</item>
<item>
<p>Right click on the file to open the context menu and select the desired
script to execute from the <gui style="menuitem">Scripts</gui> menu.</p>
</item>
</steps>
<note style="important">
<p>A script will not be passed any parameters when executed from a remote
folder such as a folder showing web or <sys>ftp</sys> content.</p>
</note>
</section>
</page>
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