Gloobus-Preview is an extension for Nautilus designed to enable a quick full screen preview of any kind of file. After installing simply start Nautilus and highlight the file you want to check and hit the space-bar. Images, text files, fonts, and even your music and movies are just a quick key press away.
Installation is easy, just add the repository and install the package using following command lines:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gloobus-dev/gloobus-preview
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gloobus-preview
after that restart nautilus with
nautilus -q
Covergloobus
CoverGloobus is also part of the Gloobus project. It’s a simple application to show the cover and info of what is playing in your favorite player. After installing and running Covergloobus there will be a small applet floating on your desktop showing coverart of the song currently playing in your favourite player.
It also can download the lyrics of the songs middle clicking on the applet.
There is a vast variety of supported players:
Amarok2
Audacious
Banshee
Clementine
Exaile 0.2.x
Exaile 0.3.x
gmusicbrowser
Guayadeque
Listen
MOC
MPD (requires python-mpd)
QuodLibet
Rythmbox
Songbird (requires MPRIS plugin for Songbird)
Spotify
Totem
VLC ( > 0.9.0)
Supported Lyrics Engines:
absolutelyrics.com
lyrics.com
lyrics.wikia.com
lyricsfly.com
lyricsplugin.com
to instal Covergloobus simply add the repository and install the package using following lines in your terminal:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:gloobus-dev/covergloobus
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install covergloobus
after that restart nautilus with
nautilus -q
(Well, it seems that there is something wrong with the covergloobus ppa, Here you have the deb packages to install it manually
https://launchpad.net/~gloobus-dev/+archive/covergloobus/+packages
and, you’ll need to install rsvg package too (will be fixed in covergloobuspackage) sudo apt-get install python-rsvg )
Nautilus Elementary
Nautilus Elementary is a patched Nautilus version that compacts and streamlines Nautilus in GNOME to make file browsing easier.It comes with some useful tools like an integrated terminal.
Installing Nautilus Elementary is easy, just run following terminal commands:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:am-monkeyd/nautilus-elementary-ppa
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
after installing restart Nautilus with:
nautilus -q
If you now open up Nautilus’ preferences, you’ll see a new tab called “Tweaks” which gives you options for customizing your new, simplified file manager. You can enable RGBA in Compiz, toggle between a vertical and horizontal toolbar, and a few other small things. Within Nautilus, you can further tweak the window just by hitting F8, F9, and F3; which hide the toolbar, hide the left-hand navigation pane, and open up an extra pane, respectively. The extra pane is especially useful for dragging and dropping files between two folders without having to open up another Nautilus window, and the hotkeys to enable these extra panes are very convenient, letting you open them only when you need them.
Most useful I find the integrated terminal. Accessing the terminal is done by hitting the F7 key which will open a integrated terminal in the current directory
The latest version of Elementary comes with integrated Clutterview , simply press F4 to open it. Please note that Clutterview is still alpha and might not work on all systems. One possible fix is to edit the /etc/environement file
sudo gedit /etc/environment and add the following line:
export CLUTTER_VBLANK=none
save the file and reboot your machine
Hey there, great post. But I can’t get CoverGloobus download working within the repository.
It says “404 not found” :/ Help.
Hi MicroHelper,
they have a problem with their repository (no idea what) but you can download the deb file from
https://launchpad.net/~gloobus-dev/+archive/covergloobus/+packages