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    <desc>Single-click to open files, run or view executable
    text files, and specify trash behavior.</desc>

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    <credit type="author">
      <name>Tiffany Antopolski</name>
      <email>tiffany@antopolski.com</email>
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    <credit type="author">
      <name>Shaun McCance</name>
      <email>shaunm@gnome.org</email>
    </credit>
    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Michael Hill</name>
      <email>mdhillca@gmail.com</email>
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    <credit type="editor">
      <name>Sindhu S</name>
      <email>sindhus@live.in</email>
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    <credit type="editor">
      <name>David King</name>
      <email>amigadave@amigadave.com</email>
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<title>File manager behavior preferences</title>
<p>You can control whether you single-click or double-click files, how
executable text files are handled, and the trash behavior. Click the menu
button in the sidebar of the window, select <gui>Preferences</gui>,
then go to the <gui>General</gui> section.</p>

<section id="behavior">
<title>General</title>
<terms>
 <item>
  <title><gui>Action to Open Items</gui></title>
  <p>By default, clicking selects files and double-clicking opens them.
  You can instead choose to have files and folders open when you click on
  them once. When you use single-click mode, you can hold down the
  <key>Ctrl</key> key while clicking to select one or more files.</p>
 </item>
</terms>

</section>
<section id="executable">
<title>Executable text files</title>
 <p>An executable text file is a file that contains a program that you can run
 (execute). The <link xref="nautilus-file-properties-permissions">file
 permissions</link> must also allow for the file to run as a program. The most
 common are <sys>Shell</sys>, <sys>Python</sys> and <sys>Perl</sys> scripts.
 These have extensions <file>.sh</file>, <file>.py</file> and <file>.pl</file>,
 respectively.</p>
 
  <comment>
  <cite date="2015-09-29">amigadave</cite>
  <p>This "section" should be split out to a separate page. It is not related
  to the preferences nor behaviour settings of Nautilus, although it could be a
  a seealso link from this page.</p>
  </comment>

 <p>Executable text files are also called <em>scripts</em>. All scripts in the
 <file>~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts</file> folder will appear in the context
 menu for a file under the <gui style="menuitem">Scripts</gui> submenu. When a
 script is executed from a local folder, all selected files will be pasted to
 the script as parameters. To execute a script on a file:</p>

<steps>
  <item>
    <p>Navigate to the desired folder.</p>
  </item>
  <item>
    <p>Select the desired file.</p>
  </item>
  <item>
    <p>Right click on the file to open the context menu and select the desired
    script to execute from the <gui style="menuitem">Scripts</gui> menu.</p>
  </item>
</steps>

 <note style="important">
  <p>A script will not be passed any parameters when executed from a remote
  folder such as a folder showing web or <sys>ftp</sys> content.</p>
 </note>

</section>

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