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- <title>File Management</title>
-
-
- <para>
- This chapter presents the basic elements of the
- Nautilus file manager, and its basic file functions
- and features. Nautilus is designed to make file
- management transparent and intuitive-and, in
- the process, more productive.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Chapter One is presented in five sections:
- <itemizedlist>
-
- <listitem><para>
- Launching Nautilus
- </para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>
- Nautilus Elements
- </para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>
- Navigating and Viewing Your System
- </para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>
- Navigating the Network
- </para></listitem>
-
- <listitem><para>
- Manipulating Files
- </para></listitem>
-
- </itemizedlist>
-
- </para>
-
-
-
- <sect1 id="ch1-launching">
- <title>Launching Nautilus</title>
-
- <para>
- Nautilus can be launched from three locations:
- from the GNOME main menu, where the Nautilus
- menu item can be found under Applications; from
- the GNOME desktop itself; or from the Panel.
- </para>
-
- <figure>
- <title>Nautilus Icon</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-nautiluslogo" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
- <para>
- If you wish to put the Nautilus icon (Figure 1), on
- your desktop, select the Nautilus menu item and,
- holding down the left mouse button, drag it to the
- desktop.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Probably the easiest way to launch Nautilus is
- from the GNOME panel (Figure 2). To place the
- icon there, drag the menu item, as above, to an
- empty space on the panel at the bottom of the
- screen. This method has the advantage of speed:
- the panel is nearly always present, and is at most
- only a click away. The icon itself needs only one
- click to launch Nautilus.
- </para>
-
- <figure>
- <title>The Nautilus Icon on the Panel, between Netscape and the Pager</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-panel" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
- <para>
- To launch Nautilus, click once on the menu item,
- or panel icon, or twice on the desktop icon.
- </para>
-
- </sect1>
-
- <sect1 id="ch1-elements">
- <title>Nautilus Elements</title>
-
- <para>
- The major elements of the Nautilus file manager
- include, in the upper part, the menu bar, tool bar
- and location bar, and below, the sidebar and the
- main window (Figure 3).
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The menu bar is used to access the pull-down
- menus, which are the most complete source of
- Nautilus tools and features. The tool bar provides
- quick access to Nautilus most common
- navigation and search tools, and Eazel Services.
- The location bar displays system directory
- location, LAN location, and Internet location-
- depending on where Nautilus is looking at the
- given moment.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The main window is the main viewing area for the
- systems directories and files, as well as the area
- where directories and files are generally manipu-
- lated. It is capable of showing files in several
- formats, and includes file information such as
- size, type, and date last modified.
- </para>
-
- <figure>
- <title>Main Nautilus Elements</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-icon-view-demo" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
- <para>
- The sidebar provides a tree view of directories
- and sub-directories, as well as a history view
- (recently viewed files and directories), and a
- variety of Linux help documents.
- </para>
-
- </sect1>
-
- <sect1 id="ch1-navigation">
- <title>Navigating and Viewing The System</title>
-
-
- <para>
- Nautilus offers several methods to navigate the
- system. Typing a directory address into the
- location bar will point Nautilus toward that
- location. The directional arrows on the tool bar
- provide a simpler method to navigate back,
- forward, and up through the system: they function
- exactly as in a browser. Clicking on a directory
- icon in the main window will open that directory.
- Finally, clicking the collapsible branches of the
- sidebars tree view allows the user to graphically
- view and navigate the directory tree.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The file manager minimizes the necessity of
- opening applications by identifying many file
- types graphically. Viewer components allow
- several common document types to be displayed
- without launching a separate application, and a
- zoom feature provides one-click zooming in and
- out in the main window. Sound files in certain
- common formats can even be previewed by
- simply passing the mouse over the file icon.
- </para>
-
- <sect2 id="ch1-navigation-hardware">
- <title>The Initial Screen and Hardware Overview</title>
-
- <para>
- The first screen to appear (Figure 4), shows the
- contents of your home directory (note: the first screen
- will be the Nautilus sub-directory if the Beginner mode was
- selected). In this example,
- the user has logged in under their own name-
- John-so the home directory is /home/john.
- Linux follows the UNIX convention for home
- directories: if the user had logged in as Susan, the
- home directory would be /home/susan; when
- logged in as the root user, the home directory is root.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The file manager identifies this directory in two
- ways: as a traditional command line directory
- address in the location bar, and as a captioned
- folder icon in the sidebar.
- </para>
-
- <figure>
- <title>The Start Screen</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-icon-view-150" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
- <para>
- Among the contents of the screen are a Nautilus
- folder. This folder, when clicked, takes the user to
- /home/john/Nautilus, Figure 5. Among the
- contents of the folder are: a small HTML file
- containing information about Nautilus; a services
- icon which, when double-clicked, takes you
- directly to Eazel Services (covered in Chapter
- Three), and a computer icon which leads to a
- Hardware Overview of your system, Figure 6.
- </para>
-
- <figure>
- <title>The Contents of /home/john/Nautilus, with the Computer and
- Services Icons.</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-home" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
- <para>
- The hardware overview shows the details of the
- computers central processor unit, including the
- manufacturer, the model, the calculated speed in
- MHz and the cache size. It also shows the amount
- of system RAM, and the models of the hard
- drive(s) and CD player.
- </para>
-
- <figure>
- <title>Hardware Overview, Showing an AMD Processor and 55MB of RAM</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-hardware" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="ch1-navigation-refresh">
- <title>Using the Navigation, Refresh and Home Buttons</title>
-
- <para>
- The navigation buttons on the left side of the tool
- bar-Back, Forward, Up, Refresh and Home-are
- used in a similar way to the navigation buttons on
- a web browser (Figure 7).
- </para>
-
- <figure>
- <title>Navigation Arrows on the Tool Bar</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-toolbar" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
- <para>
- The three left-most buttons allow navigation
- through the file system by both time and
- direction.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The back and forward buttons allow the user to
- revisit directories and files which the user has
- already accessed during the current session. This
- is navigation through time. The previous example
- illustrates this: clicking on the back button from
- the hardware overview screen will take the user
- back to the /home/john screen, but once there,
- the back button will be dimmed out: there is no
- further back in time to go in this session.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Similarly, clicking the forward button at this point
- would take the user once again to the /home/
- john/Nautilus screen.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The up button navigates upward through the
- directory hierarchy. This is navigation by
- direction. As an example, in the previous section
- it is impossible-solely with the back button-to
- go up through the file system further than /home/
- john. However, by clicking the up button, the user
- can navigate first to /home, and then all the way
- to /.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Clicking the refresh button refreshes the view of
- the current directory.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- The home button will always take the user to the
- current sessions home directory. If the user has
- logged on as root, then the home button, when
- clicked, will open /root. If the user has logged on
- as Laura, the directory opened will be /home/
- laura. Note: if the user is running in Beginner mode,
- clicking the home button will open the Nautilus sub-directory.
- This is, as are so many features in
- Nautilus, customizable-see Chapter Two.
- </para>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="ch1-navigation-icons-list">
- <title>Viewing as Icons, or as a List</title>
-
- <para>
- Although directories and files are by default
- viewed, in the main window, as icons, there is
- some advantage to viewing them as a list. At a
- normal magnification level, more information will
- be displayed in list view, such as the files type
- and modification date. To change the view style,
- click on the View as Icons button, to the bottom-right
- of the tool bar (Figure 8), and choose List.
- </para>
-
- <figure>
- <title>View as Icons Button</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-view-as" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
- <para>
- The list view still includes representative icons,
- but the extra space used by the extra description
- means the icons must be minimized. The Date
- Modified column is particularly clear, with
- descriptive terms used where the latest modifi-
- cation of the file or directory is within the last
- week (Figure 9).
- </para>
-
-
- <figure>
- <title>List View, with Descriptive Dates under Date Modified</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-list-mydoc" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
-
- </sect2>
-
-
- <sect2 id="ch1-navigation-tree">
- <title>Using Tree View in the Sidebar</title>
-
- <para>
- Tree view refers to a collapsible list of directories,
- sub-directories and files. In Nautilus, it is
- available in the sidebar. The advantage of tree
- view is that it allows the user to clearly observe
- the directory structure at a glance, thus simplifying
- directory and file administration.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- To activate tree view, click the Tree tab at the
- bottom of the sidebar screen. At first, the tree
- may be collapsed, showing a single folder (Figure
- 10).
- </para>
-
- <figure>
- <title>Collapsed Tree View at Root</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-tree-slash" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
- <para>
- To expand the directory structure, click once on
- the right arrow pointing toward the folder. The
- arrow will immediately point down, and the root
- directories appear in the sidebar. Clicking any
- sub-directory arrow will expand that sub-
- directory, but not automatically expand the view
- in the main window. Notice in Figure 11 that
- although the tree in the sidebar is expanded to /T/
- ARCHIVE/Redhat/ETC, the main window and
- the location bar are still showing the folders
- within /home/john.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- (Also notice that, when necessary, vertical and
- horizontal scroll bars appear automatically on the
- sidebar panels).
- </para>
-
- <figure>
- <title>Different Views and Different Directories in Different Panels: Tree
- View of /T/ARCHIVE/Redhat/ETC on the Left, Icon View of /home/john
- on the Right.</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-home-john" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
- <para>
- To synchronize the displays-that is, to display
- the contents of the same directory in both the
- sidebar and the main window-simply click on
- the desired folder icon in the sidebars tree view
- (Figure 12). In this illustration, the user has
- clicked on the icon representing the directory
- /demo in the sidebar. Both the location bar and
- the main window now reflect this location, with
- the main window displaying the contents of the
- demo directory in icon view.
- </para>
-
- <figure>
- <title>Different Views but Identical Directories: Tree View of /demo on
- the Left, Icon View of /demo on the Right.</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-tree-demo" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
- <para>
- Exploring the directory tree within the sidebar
- alone is usually faster than exploring it within the
- main window. To expand directories without
- updating the main window, click on the small
- right arrows in tree view. In the example shown in
- Figure 13, the /etc directory has been expanded,
- as has the /X11 subdirectory. Beneath that are
- several more subdirectories, and the XF86Config
- file, which configures the X server.
- </para>
-
- <figure>
- <title>Expanded Directories in Tree View</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-tree-etc" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
- <para>
- There may be times when the directory tree is so
- expanded, the user may lose sight of the upper
- branches. In such a situation, the user can either
- scroll with the horizontal scroll bar at the bottom
- of the sidebar, or, by holding down the left mouse
- button, enlarge the sidebar by dragging its right-
- hand edge into the main window area.
- </para>
-
- </sect2>
-
-
- <sect2 id="ch1-navigation-zooming">
- <title>Zooming in the Main Window</title>
-
- <para>
- In a screen crowded with directory and file icons,
- the user may wish to zoom in to confirm a file
- name or type. The zoom feature enables this
- within the main window.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Figure 14 is an example of a screen crowded with
- icons; it is the doc sub-directory containing the
- XFree86 server documentation for various
- graphics cards.
- </para>
-
-
- <figure>
- <title>A Cluttered Main Window</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-tree-doc-1" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
- <para>
- Somewhere in the window is the README file
- for the Chips & Technology graphics card. To use
- the zoom feature to find this more easily, the user
- simply clicks on the + sign of the zoom control
- to the right of the location bar (Figure 15).
- </para>
-
-
- <figure>
- <title>The Zoom Control</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-zoom-control" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
- <para>
- The result-shown in Figure 16, after two clicks
- on the + sign, bringing magnification up to
- 150%-is a far more easily read display, with the
- various graphics card types clearly identifiable.
- The Chips & Technology README file is on the
- left. This example also shows how greater magnification
- leads to more file and directory information displayed.
- </para>
-
-
- <figure>
- <title>The View Enlarged to 150%</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-tree-doc" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
- <para>
- There may be times, especially on computers with
- large displays, when, instead of using the vertical
- scroll bar to find a file or directory, it may be
- faster to zoom out, and view a larger area. To do
- this, click on the minus sign to the left of the plus
- sign.
- </para>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="ch1-navigation-viewing">
- <title>Viewing and Opening Files Within Nautilus</title>
-
- <para>
- Certain common file types can be identified, read,
- or, in the case of music files, heard, from within
- Nautilus, without having to open the files application.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Graphics files of many common types are represented as thumbnails--realistic iconic representations of their content. To inspect them more closely, without opening their related application,
- the user can enlarge them using the zoom feature.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Other types of files use different viewing
- methods. Many text files can be read just by
- clicking on them once in the main window. This is
- both faster than opening up a separate console, or
- application, and it also uses fewer system
- resources. Figure 17 shows an example using the
- README.chips file.
- </para>
-
- <figure>
- <title>Displaying a README Text File in the Main Window</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-README" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
- <para>
- Common types of music files can be heard via
- your computers sound system by simply hovering
- over the files icon with the mouse. For more
- control, the view button to the right of the
- location bar can be set to View as Music. The
- main window will display the music files only, by
- track, title, artist, bitrate and time, and also show
- a button-activated music player (Figure 18).
- </para>
-
- <figure>
- <title>Music Player and an MP3 File</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-music-control" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
- <para>
- Table 1 lists file types that can be viewed, or
- listened to, within Nautilus, without the necessity
- of opening their normal applications.
- </para>
-
- <table frame="all">
- <title></title>
- <tgroup cols="2">
- <thead>
- <row>
- <entry>View</entry>
- <entry>File Types</entry>
- </row>
- </thead>
- <tbody>
- <row>
- <entry>Icon/entry</entry>
- <entry>Files and Folders</entry>
- </row>
-
-
- <row>
- <entry>List</entry>
- <entry>Files and Folders</entry>
- </row>
-
-
- <row>
- <entry>Music</entry>
- <entry>MP3</entry>
- </row>
-
-
- <row>
- <entry>Web Page</entry>
- <entry>HTML, including MAN pages, info pages and DocBook SGML</entry>
- </row>
-
-
- <row>
- <entry>Text</entry>
- <entry>ASCII Text Files and HTML source</entry>
- </row>
-
-
- <row>
- <entry>Image</entry>
- <entry>JPEG, PNG, etc.</entry>
- </row>
-
-
- <row>
- <entry>Package</entry>
- <entry>RPM Packages</entry>
- </row>
-
- </tbody>
- </tgroup>
- </table>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="ch1-navigation-launching-apps">
- <title>Launching Applications within Nautilus</title>
-
- <para>
- Files can be opened, edited, and saved by
- launching their applications from within Nautilus.
- This is accomplished by positioning the mouse
- over the file, and clicking the right button. In the
- menu that appears, clicking on Open With
- brings up a sub-menu of application choices, from
- which the user can choose. Figure 19 shows an
- example, where a graphics file has been selected
- and opened with The Gimp.
- </para>
-
-
- <figure>
- <title>Opening a Graphic File by Launching its Application from within
- Nautilus</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-open-with" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
- </sect2>
-
- </sect1>
-
-
- <sect1 id="ch1-network">
- <title>Navigating the Network</title>
-
- <para>
- Nautilus has full network capability, both on the
- LAN and on the Internet. It can connect to FTP
- and web servers, local and remote, and to
- mounted Samba shares.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Nautilus unique design includes elements of a
- web browser as well as a traditional file manager.
- As a result, Nautilus can browse the web, and
- also graphically browse the machines of a typical
- mixed corporate LAN running a combination of
- Windows, Linux and UNIX machines.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Nautilus primary methods of connection are
- shown in Figure 20.
- </para>
-
- <figure>
- <title>Methods of Connection in a Mixed Environment</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-connect" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
- <sect2 id="ch1-network-ftp">
- <title>Navigating the LAN via FTP</title>
-
- <para>
- Nautilus connects to a mixed LAN via local FTP
- and mounted Samba shares.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- To connect to a local Linux or UNIX FTP server,
- type in the complete host name of that
- machine in the location bar. As an example, to
- connect to a machine called toshiba.jpl, the user
- would type:
-<programlisting>
-ftp://toshiba.jpl
-</programlisting>
- and hit Enter. In Figure 21, the user has logged in
- anonymously to the /home/ftp directory of
- toshiba.jpl.
- </para>
-
-
- <figure>
- <title>FTP login to a Linux Machine on the LAN</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-slash" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
- <para>
- In this example, red emblems signifying read and
- write protected folders appear in the main
- windows. This confirms the anonymous login. An
- attempt to view the contents of a read protected
- folder, for example, /bin, results in the screen
- shown in Figure 22.
- </para>
-
-
- <figure>
- <title>Inadequate Permissions</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-inadequate-permissions" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="ch1-network-samba">
- <title>Navigating the LAN via Samba</title>
-
- <para>
- To connect to a Windows machine on the LAN,
- the user must first be running Samba and have
- configured the Windows machine, and must
- finally have mounted the Samba mountpoint on
- the host machine.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Once configured, typing in the mountpoint in the
- location bar reveals the directories and files on
- the Windows machine. In the example in Figure
- 23, the user has navigated to the /samba
- directory on the Windows machine accessed
- through the HP mountpoint.
- </para>
-
-
- <figure>
- <title>Accessing a Windows Machine on a Mixed LAN, via a Samba
- Mountpoint</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-samba" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="ch1-network-internet">
- <title>Navigating the Internet</title>
-
- <para>
- Nautilus connects to the Internet in the same way
- as a web browser. Both FTP sites and web sites
- are accessed by simply typing the URL into the
- location bar. Figure 24 gives an illustration, the
- users having connected to www.cnn.com.
- </para>
-
-
- <figure>
- <title>Nautilus as Web Browser</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-cnn" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
- </sect2>
-
-
- <sect2 id="ch1-network-history">
- <title>The Sidebar History and Bookmarks</title>
-
- <para>
- When viewing the web, the navigation tools on
- the tool bar function as they do on any browser. In
- addition, both the History tab at the bottom of the
- sidebar, and the Go drop-down menu, provide a
- session history of local and remote accesses
- (Figure 25).
- </para>
-
-
- <figure>
- <title>The Sidebar History and Go Menu</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-history" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
- <para>
- Bookmarks can also lead to local and remote
- machines, Samba shares and web sites. They are
- found by clicking on Bookmarks on the menu bar,
- where the menu items for adding and editing
- bookmarks are also located.
- </para>
-
- </sect2>
- </sect1>
-
- <sect1 id="ch1-files">
- <title>Manipulating Files</title>
-
- <para>Manipulating directories and files is one of the
- most basic of all file manager features. Nautilus
- can be used to graphically move, copy, duplicate,
- rename and delete files, and to create new and
- rename existing directories. It can also be used as
- a search engine, on the local machine, the LAN,
- and the web. Finally, in Nautilus the user can
- graphically change a files permissions-a great
- advance over the command line CHMOD method.
- </para>
-
- <sect2 id="ch1-files-moving">
- <title>Moving and Copying Files</title>
-
- <para>
- These two file management activities are
- performed by opening two Nautilus windows, one
- for the source location and one for the destination.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Open a new Nautilus window by clicking on File
- on the menu bar, and choosing the first menu
- item: New Window (Figure 26).
- </para>
-
-
- <figure>
- <title>Opening a New Window in Nautilus</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-new-window" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
-
- <para>
- To move a file, simply drag it from the source
- window to the destination window, with the left
- mouse button depressed. For options, drag the file
- with the right mouse button: this gives the choices
- of either moving or copying the file, or of
- creating a link.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- An example of a successful file copy operation is
- shown in Figure 27. The pluck.wav file has been
- copied from the /home/john directory (the
- source), in the lower-right Nautilus window, to
- the /home/john/music directory, in the upper-left
- Nautilus window.
- </para>
-
-
- <figure>
- <title>The Successful Copy of a File from /home/john to /home/john/
- music</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-pluck" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="ch1-files-duplicating">
- <title>Duplicating, Renaming and Deleting Files, and Creating
- Directories</title>
-
- <para>
- Duplicating a file is accomplished by either
- clicking on the file with the right mouse button,
- and selecting Duplicate, or by first selecting the
- file and then selecting Duplicate from the File
- pull-down menu on the menu bar (Figure 28).
- Notice in the illustration that the duplicate file is
- identified by the tag (copy) next to the file name.
- </para>
-
-
- <figure>
- <title>Successful Duplication of the testement.jpg File</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-duplicate" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
-
- <para>
- Renaming a file is accomplished in a similar
- manner. Choose the same menu by either means,
- and click on Rename. Then simply type the new
- name into the file caption.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Deleting a file, in Nautilus, means moving it to
- the trash folder which Nautilus creates upon
- installation. A file may be deleted either by
- dragging and dropping it into the trash folder, or
- by selecting the file, opening the same menu as
- above, and choosing Move to Trash.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- Note that moving a file to the trash folder does
- not delete it from the system. It is still available,
- and can still be retrieved, in case the user has
- trashed it mistakenly. Permanent file deletion is
- accomplished by clicking the Empty Trash item in
- the File menu.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- A new subdirectory can be created (and/or
- renamed), anywhere in the directory tree, by
- selecting the parent directory and then pulling
- down the File menu from the menu bar. Click on
- New Folder, and the new subdirectory is created.
- Just type in the name and hit the Enter key.
- </para>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2 id="ch1-files-find-search">
- <title>File Find and Web Search</title>
-
- <para>
- Nautilus' two search features, found on the tool
- bar, enable the user both to find files on the local
- machine and on mounted Samba shares, and to
- locate information on the web.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- To search for a file either locally or on a Samba
- LAN, click the Find button on the tool bar, and
- type in the name of the desired file. Then click
- the Find Them button.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- This is the simplest form of file search, but by
- clicking the More Options button-several
- times-no fewer than seven search variables
- become available. Each variable in turn has its
- own set of constraints. In this way it is possible to
- narrow down, or refine a search very precisely
- (Figure 29).
- </para>
-
- <figure>
- <title>File Searching Expanded to the Maximum Degree Possible</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-complex-search" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
- <para>
- To search for information on the web, click on
- the Web Search button on the tool bar. Nautilus is
- transformed into a web browser, and Google is
- presented in the main window (Figure 30).
- </para>
-
-
- <figure>
- <title>The Google Search Engine, Launched from within Nautilus.</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-google" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2>
- <title>Changing File Permissions</title>
-
- <para>
- To change a file's permissions, click with the
- right mouse button on the file, and choose Show
- Properties from the menu. The dialog box which
- appears has three tabs. Choose the one labelled:
- Permissions (Figure 31). Both the file's owner
- and group settings can be changed, as can the
- read, write, and execute permissions for each setting.
- The text view and numeric view of the result
- are automatically updated at the bottom of the box.
- </para>
-
- <figure>
- <title>Changing File Permissions Graphically</title>
- <graphic fileref="ch1-permissions" scale="50"></graphic>
- </figure>
-
- </sect2>
-
- <sect2>
- <title>Getting Help</title>
-
- <para>
- This Users Manual is available from both the
- Help item on the menu bar, and from the Help
- Contents tab at the bottom of the sidebar.
- </para>
-
- <para>
- In addition to this manual, the Help Contents tab
- provides easy access to many other Linux help
- files in several different formats.
- </para>
-
-
- </sect2>
-
- </sect1>
-
-
-</chapter>
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