Keyboard shortcut to open Ubuntu file manager?

Question

Is there a keyboard shortcut to open the Ubuntu file manager?

If there isn't one by default, how can I set such a shortcut?

Solution

It is under System Settings -> Keyboard -> Shortcuts -> Launchers, and by default on my system it is set to Explorer key (whatever that means), but personally i've set it to Super + E , since this is the same as Window's shortcut, which is what I used to use a lot year and half ago when I still was a Windows user. Just click on the area where the description for key is, it will say new accelerator and press keys you want to set

And if you want to create a shortcut to open some directory other than home, go to Custom shortcuts, and set a new shortcut for nautilus /path/to/dir command. For instance, nautilus /usr/share/applications

Comments

[Fabby]

The "explorer" media key is an additional key on multi-media keyboards usually depicted by an icon of a little house and therefore aka the "home" key! ;-) :D :D :D

[sirajalam049]

The explorer opened is not as root. Is there any way to make shortcut of opening the explorer as root?

[sirajalam049]

I clicked the + sign to add the custom shortcut, and named it as Explorer and command as sudo nautilus, and gave it the shortcut super+E, but it isn't working.

[Sergiy Kolodyazhnyy]

@Siraj sudo is command-line only command. You need to use gksu instead or pkexec instead. That will show you a GUI popup for password when you need to run filemanager with admin privilleges. Note that this approach is not recommended. Nautilus has extension nautilus-admin so I would recommend you use that instead