Add ‘Open Terminal’ to Gnome context menu in Ubuntu

Gnome ships with the absence of a killer desktop tweak called ‘Open Terminal’. This simple feature lets you open a new terminal, when you right click on a folder. I was really wondering  why this feature is not included in Ubuntu distros.

How to install it?

Open a new terminal and type

sudo apt-get install nautilus-open-terminal

Then log out and log in again to restart the Gnome. Now it should looks like this…

After installing 'Open Terminal'

Eclipse 3.5 Galileo on Ubuntu Jaunty 9.04

Eclipse 3.5 (AKA Galileo) is the de facto standard for enterprise java development IDE. Eclipse on Linux platform is a perfect match with performance,proficiency and glory .

In order to begin playing with eclipse, we need to do some configurations.

1. Install Sun Java JDK

#sudo apt-get install sun-java6-jdk

2. Make Sun’s Java as your default Java installation

By default, Ubuntu 9.04 ships with a Java distribution called ‘icedTea’ or Open JDK and its littlebit slow. In order to make sure your system has that installation, open terminal window and type

#java -version

it’ll print the java version you are using right now. If it is set to Open JDK, then you have to change it to Sun’s JDK.

#sudo update-alternatives --config java

Then select the installation with path /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun/jre/bin/java.

3. Search for a pretty icon for eclipse

Download this one

http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Vista-eclipse.png

Save it to your desktop

4. Download Eclipse Galileo

You can go to official site http://www.eclipse.org/downloads/ and choose your edition, here I choose eclipse for JEE developers edition. This will be nearly 188MB in size.

Save it to your desktop

5. Extract eclipse

Open the terminal and execute

#cd ~/Desktop
#tar xzf eclipse-jee-galileo-SR1-linux-gtk.tar.gz (replace your downloaded file name here)
#sudo mv eclipse /opt/eclipse
#sudo mv Vista-eclipse.png /opt/eclipse
#cd /opt
#sudo chown -R root:root eclipse
#sudo chmod -R +r eclipse
#cd /opt/eclipse
#sudo chmod +x eclipse

Here I’m gonna install eclipse into /opt, because I want eclipse to be installed for multiple user environment.

5. Create an executable shell for eclipse

Open terminal, execute the commands:

#sudo touch /usr/local/bin/eclipse (this assumes that /usr/local/bin is in the path)
#sudo chmod 755 /usr/local/bin/eclipse
#sudo gedit /usr/local/bin/eclipse

When file is opened with gedit, enter the following:

#!/bin/sh
export ECLIPSE_HOME=/opt/eclipse
$ECLIPSE_HOME/eclipse $*

6. Create GNOME menu item

Open Terminal, execute the following commands:

#sudo gedit /usr/share/applications/eclipse.desktop

Enter the following contents:

[Desktop Entry]
Encoding=UTF-8
Name=Eclipse
Comment=Eclipse Galileo IDE
Exec=eclipse
Icon=/opt/eclipse/Vista-eclipse.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Categories=GNOME;Application;Development
StartupNotify=True

7. Initialise eclipse

Open Terminal, execute:

#/opt/eclipse/eclipse –clean

8. From now on, you can choose to run Eclipse from menu Applications->Programming->Eclipse