Navigating to Directories and Subdirectories

File Manager is like a vehicle that you drive to tour the filesystem 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”.

To change 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.

To open a terminal window in the current directory

Choose Terminal from the Directory menu.

This opens a Terminal Emulator 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.

See Also.

“Starting and Stopping a Terminal Emulator” describes how to open and use terminal emulators.
“To change the default Terminal Emulator” lists the steps to change your default Terminal Emulator settings.

To execute 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).

See Also.

Navigating to Directories and Subdirectories

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