GNOME

Table of Contents

1. Nautilus

Scripts placed in ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts can be used as custom context menu actions.

2. Vim key bindings in Text Editor

gsettings set org.gnome.TextEditor keybindings "vim"

3. Extensions

Built-in command line tool for managing extensions.

4. Settings

4.1. Shortcuts

4.1.1. Workspace and window shortcuts

Using Vim motion keys (hjkl) to switch between workspaces and move windows around, see notes:gsettings#vim.

4.2. What does GNOME consider as “Temporary Files” in Settings?

4.3. Recent files history and the recently-used.xbel file

Note that the “recent files” button (the file picker, in Nautilus etc) only shows up if “File History” is enabled.

4.4. LocalSearch (filesystem indexer)

Directory with the indexed files databases ~/.cache/tracker3/.

To list indexed files -f and directories -s.

localsearch search -f

5. Issues

6. Related nodes

7. References

jeu. 24 sept. 2026

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