Install Gloobus,Mac-like quicklook in Ubuntu 9.10

This post was written by admin on December 13, 2009
Posted Under: General

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:gloobus-dev/gloobus-preview

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.
quicklook

quicklook1

For more,see:https://launchpad.net/gloobus

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    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:

    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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    #1 
    Written By Agus on December 18th, 2009 @ 4:42 am

    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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    #2 
    Written By Randy on January 28th, 2010 @ 7:46 pm

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