Navigating to Directories and Subdirectories

File Manager is like a vehicle that you drive to tour the file system on your computer and other computers on the network. Each File Manager window—also called a "view"—shows the contents of a single directory.

If you are not familiar with hierarchical file systems, see “The Hierarchical File System”.

Changing to Another Directory

Double-click a directory icon.
Or, select a directory icon, then choose "Open In Place" from the Actions menu or from the directory's popup menu. ("Open New View" opens a new File Manager window for the directory.)
Or, double-click a segment of the current path. For example, if the current directory is /home/aaron/.vue/types, you can change to the /home/aaron/ directory by double-clicking the word aaron.
Or, select the path above the icon area, type the directory you want to view, then press Enter.

Opening a Terminal Window in the Current Directory

Choose "Terminal" from the Directory menu.

This opens a terminal window with the same current working directory as the File Manager window.

To close a Terminal window, choose "Close" from the window menu, or execute the exit command.

Executing an Action for a File or Directory

Using the Actions menu:
1. Select the object's icon.
2. Choose the action you want to execute from the Actions menu.
Or, choose the action you want from the object's popup menu.
Or, double-click the object's icon to invoke its "default" action (which is the first action listed in the Actions menu).

Navigating to Directories and Subdirectories

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Changing to Another Directory

Opening a Terminal Window in the Current Directory

Executing an Action for a File or Directory