GNOME’s Nautilus file manager is finally matching the behavior of other file managers like KDE’s Dolphin and Xfce’s Thunar with a keyboard shortcut for copying and pasting files.
This Week in GNOME highlighted a notable albeit one could argue long overdue change for GNOME Files / Nautilus: Ctrl+Insert and Shift+Insert support for copying and pasting files.
Essentially nothing. They copied the shortcuts from Thunar and Dolphin for copy paste.
I’m a gnome guy but always swap to Thunar on a fresh install.
What’s better with Thunar?
It’s probably just that I got used to it with XFCE at some point. My main two concerns:
Otherwise, I find Nautilus much more aesthetically pleasing.
Agree that Nautilus is the most beautiful/clean, but almost the least functional. Maybe those two are in fact inversely proportional, eh.
I haven’t used Nautilus in ages, so I can’t say for certain, but Thunar is a more traditional-feeling file manager. It feels more like an older version of the Windows file manager but with tabs, while Nautilus seems more Mac-like.
Can Thunar run under Wayland or nah? (Just curious, I don’t want to actually use it.)