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I would like to create a Keyboard shortcut in order to open the terminal when browsing a given folder. I am using nautilus and Ubuntu 12.04.3

If we right click in a folder there is the option "Open in terminal".

I tried by adding in the "System Settings > Keyboard > Shortcut" a new shortcut. As name I put "Open in Terminal" and as command for example I did "Ctrl+Super+t" but it does not work.

VDC
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    Check this answer (using dconf and F12): http://askubuntu.com/questions/68078/keyboard-shortcut-for-open-a-terminal-here – Sylvain Pineau Mar 16 '14 at 18:01
  • I would like to create a shortcut by myself =) – VDC Mar 16 '14 at 18:05
  • 'Ctrl+Shift+T' should work just fine, without changing anything. As Sylvain Pineau suggested rightly, it would be easiest, to use dconf, to change the already existing shortcut to terminal. – v2r Mar 16 '14 at 18:13
  • 'Ctrl+Shift+T' does not open the terminal (maybe you wanted to say 'Ctrl+Alt+T'? But this open the terminal on the home folder). @DKBose, I don't understand your question, still at the first steps – VDC Mar 16 '14 at 18:17
  • I think that the answer to your question is Nautilus – VDC Mar 16 '14 at 18:30
  • Look here: http://askubuntu.com/questions/207442/how-to-add-open-terminal-here-to-nautilus-context-menu

    and here http://askubuntu.com/questions/69754/how-can-i-create-keyboard-shortcuts-for-my-nautilus-scripts

     – jhilmer Mar 16 '14 at 18:54
  • Probably what you are looking is answered here http://askubuntu.com/questions/68078/keyboard-shortcut-for-open-a-terminal-here – tushar gupta Dec 22 '16 at 19:10
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    Possible duplicate of Keyboard shortcut for "open a terminal here" – G M Jan 09 '18 at 15:22

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The best way I have found to do this without removing my hands from the keyboard:

Most keyboards nowadays have a "right click" key (don't know if it has an official name), located between the right alt and right ctrl, looks like an icon of a menu. Clicking on that opens up the right click menu of the current window (your mouse doesn't have to be in the window itself).

Therefore, the shortcut is Keyboard Right Click Key + E.

BTW, If you don't have a right click button on keyboard, you can right click using: SHIFT+F10, and then press E. Less intuitive, but also works...

Yonatan
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I assume you are asking for opening a folder that you are browsing in nautilus, in a terminal.

Just install nautilus open in terminal plugin by doing, 

sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal

followed by restarting nautilus.

Note that Ctrl+Alt+T will open the terminal always in your home folder path.

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    No, I have already installed this. What I want is to create a shortcut that, while I am in a given folder, as for the 'Ctrl+Alt+T' shortcut, open the terminal in the folder I am browsing. – VDC Mar 16 '14 at 18:51