Can I remove the "open in terminal" menu item from nautilus?

Starting with Ubuntu 18.04, the Nautilus extension responsible for "Open in Terminal" context menu option is part of a separate package called nautilus-extension-gnome-terminal. This package is not part of gnome-terminal's required dependencies (it is only part of the recommends) and can therefore be safely removed by running:

sudo apt remove nautilus-extension-gnome-terminal

In case it's of anyone's interest, the extension file now resides at /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/nautilus/extensions-3.0/libterminal-nautilus.so instead of the old /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/libterminal-nautilus.so location. I wouldn't recommend touching it considering it's managed by the package manager but I felt I should include this information for the answer's completeness.

In recent versions of Nautilus such as 3.14 (included with Ubuntu 15.04), the Open in Terminal command is part of the gnome-terminal package, which installs the libterminal-nautilus extension (at /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/libterminal-nautilus.so).

It can be easily removed in terminal w/ sudo:

$ sudo mv -vi /usr/lib/nautilus/extensions-3.0/libterminal-nautilus.so{,.bak}

Afterwards you need to quit Nautilus to see the changes applied:

$ nautilus -q

(nautilus:16373): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_interface_skeleton_unexport: assertion 'interface_->priv->connections != NULL' failed

(nautilus:16373): GLib-GIO-CRITICAL **: g_dbus_interface_skeleton_unexport: assertion 'interface_->priv->connections != NULL' failed

(nautilus:16373): Gtk-CRITICAL **: gtk_icon_theme_get_for_screen: assertion 'GDK_IS_SCREEN (screen)' failed

(nautilus:16373): GLib-GObject-WARNING **: invalid (NULL) pointer instance

(nautilus:16373): GLib-GObject-CRITICAL **: g_signal_connect_object: assertion 'G_TYPE_CHECK_INSTANCE (instance)' failed

If Nautilus does not quit this way successfully (e.g. you see a time-out), you can command your operating system to kill it:

$ pkill -e nautilus
nautilus killed (pid 15962)

Afterwards you can restart Nautilus and is will show the entry removed.

Before:

After:

Refs:

• Please remove nautilus-open-terminal package - Bug #1451166 reported by Adam Dingle in May 2015)