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:
