Ubuntu – way to open a terminal from xdg-open or nautilus

Gnome-terminal doesn't do this, as you are aware; unlike Nautilus, it doesn't have those sorts of extensions like open-terminal here. This is probably an undesirable feature anyway; URL recognition can be annoying as it is, but can you imagine doing a find and having everything clickable?

For your pwd example,

nautilus `pwd`

works, (but then so does nautilus .) For this task, I have a bash alias:

alias n="nautilus ."

so that whenever I type n, it opens nautilus wherever I am.

Otherwise, the format:

nautilus `<insert command that prints a directory here>` 

works, but doesn't get you the feature you're looking for.

A workaround would be:

1. highlight the path with the mouse (which stores it in the buffer)
2. type nautilus<space> at the prompt
3. middle-click somewhere in the terminal (which pastes the buffer to the end of the prompt).

The way I do it is to install the nautilus-open-terminal package, (and then restart nautilus):

sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal
killall nautilus

Then you can right click on a folder, or in empty space and you will have the option to "Open in Terminal". If you select that option a new terminal will be opened with the working directory set to that folder.