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I often try to open a new Terminal window in my current folder like that. Which often is impossible for the same reason. So I navigate up, until I find a folder that is not full, open the Terminal there, and ‚cd‘ down to the folder i wanted…

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You can click on the three dot menu at the right of the path, there is an option to open a terminal. You can also switch to icon view and right-click between icons to open a terminal. You can also go to parent folder, right click the folder you were before and open it in a terminal. Many workarounds but I agree it’s not really good UI.

> You can click on the three dot menu at the right of the path, there is an option to open a terminal.

I use Black Box as a terminal app, but Nautilus will open only default distro-provided terminal application with its menu.

Yea, there currently isn't exactly any way for selecting what application is considered a terminal other than hardcoding a list (which IIRC gnome-shell does). There is an open MR on xdg-specs[1] to address this, which seems to have stalled

[1] https://gitlab.freedesktop.org/xdg/xdg-specs/-/merge_request...

Why don't you change your default terminal in update-alternatives (if you are the sole user of thia computer) or gsettings then?

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