Prevent nautilus from opening a new window

It often becomes irritating on some gnome installs that nautilus will open a new window for every folder. My desktop quickly becomes cluttered.

The following post describes how to disable this "feature"

http://ubuntuforums.org/archive/index.php/t-361989.html

For the impatient, the following commands will probably do the trick for you.


gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_browser true

gconftool-2 --type bool --set /apps/nautilus/preferences/always_use_location_entry true