On 21 February 2013 15:56, Gareth France <[email protected]> wrote:

> On 21/02/13 15:29, Tyler J. Wagner wrote:
>
>> On 2013-02-21 15:10, Colin Law wrote:
>>
>>> In 12.10 this was controlled via Nautilus, Edit > Preferences >
>>> Behaviour > Run Executable Files when opened.  Raring includes a major
>>> upgrade to Nautilus and they have removed lots of useful stuff (not
>>> the Ubuntu developers, the Nautilus developers) so it may no longer be
>>> there or may have moved.  Have a look.
>>>
>> Not intending to troll, but Linux Mint's Nemo file manager is like a
>> breath
>> of old, familiar air. These devs are busy restoring functionality from
>> Gnome 2's nautilus. I've used it for 2 months now and do not miss Nautilus
>> at all.
>>
>> It should be easy to install in stock Ubuntu if you prefer Unity.
>>
>> Regards,
>> Tyler
>>
>>  You know, I spend so much time telling the world how great Ubuntu is. It
> would probably do me the world of good to look at some of the alternatives
> every once in a while! Trouble is I don't have a spare machine to try them
> on right now.
>
> That's where VirtualBox comes in handy (yes, KVM is open source and the
supported virtualisation solution but it doesn't work that well with
desktops in my experience).

s/

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