Tips on Linux - 1

Tips on Linux - 1

Some things to make life simple while working remotely on Linux machines from an Ubuntu machine.

SSHFS

Easily mount your remote directory using SSHFS (on Ubuntu)

Terminator

A no-hassle multi-terminal worker, smooth as butter and fast switching between terminals.

Installing terminator,

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gnome-terminator

sudo apt-get update

sudo apt-get install terminator

Setting up Terminator in "Open in Terminator"

( Source : https://askubuntu.com/questions/76712/setting-nautilus-open-terminal-to-launch-terminator-rather-than-gnome-terminal )

We may define our own right-click context menu items with nautilus-actions.

• Run the Nautilus-Actions Configuration Tool either from the Dash, or from a terminal with

  nautilus-actions-config-tool
  

• In the Action tab give your action a sensible label, e.g. "Open in Terminator" and choose to display this in the selection or the context menu.
• Next open the Command tab to enter the commands to run

• Give in the full path to your command (/usr/bin/terminator) and program options (--working-directory=%d/%b) for opening the current path in Terminator.
• After logging out and in again (or just restarting nautilus with nautilus -q) the right click context menu below will be displayed: