Install Gloobus,Mac-like quicklook in Ubuntu 9.10
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Gloobus is an very cool extension to enable a full screen preview of any kind of file.You can quick preview your folders,PDFs,video/audio,pictures with just press on space key.
Currently, Gloobus supports:
Source: C++, JAVA, PHP, SH, PYTHON,
Images: JPG, PSD, XCF, PNG, GIF, SVG, ICNS
Documents: PDF, CBR, CBZ, DOC, ODF, XLS, ODS, PPT, ODP
Music: MP3, OGG, MP4, MIDI, WAV
Video: MPG, AVI, OGG, FLV, WVM, MKV
Other: Folders, Plain text files
Install Gloobus
For ubuntu 9.10 user:
open terminal from Applications/Accessories menu,add the repository:
sudo add-apt-repository ppa:tualatrix/gloobus
update,install gloobus and upgrade to the patched nautilus:
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get install gloobus-preview
sudo apt-get upgrade
restart nautilus by:
nautilus -q
nautilus &
Alternatively,download the deb package from http://gloobus.net/download/
ScreenShot:
Now,choose something in file browser or on the desktop that you want to quick preview.Press on space key to preview and press this again to stop preview.
For more,see:https://launchpad.net/gloobus
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Reader Comments
please help : after restart nautilus with nautilus -q
nautilus &
(nautilus:3347): Eel-CRITICAL **: eel_preferences_get_boolean: assertion `preferences_is_initialized ()’ failed
Initializing nautilus-bitdefender extension
** (nautilus:3347): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal ‘UploadFinished’
** (nautilus:3347): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal ‘DownloadFinished’
** (nautilus:3347): WARNING **: No marshaller for signature of signal ‘ShareCreateError’
Initializing nautilus-gdu extension
Nautilus-Share-Message: Called “net usershare info” but it failed: ‘net usershare’ returned error 255: net usershare: cannot open usershare directory /var/lib/samba/usershares. Error No such file or directory
Please ask your system administrator to enable user sharing.
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admin Reply:
December 18th, 2009 at 6:11 am
look similar to this question:https://answers.launchpad.net/gloobus/+question/90865
You can try installing this with Deb package:http://gloobus.net/download/
Hope it’ll work for you!
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I don’t think it worked like you showed, (seen a lot of error messages in the terminal window etc), but now I see thumbnails for all my pictures ect like windows does.
so I guess it did what I hoped it would. LOL
why isn’t this kind of thing automatically configured in ubuntu? I guess you can tell I’m new to this..ha ha.
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