I beg to differ. I'm into my second hour of searching about this on WinXP, and so far there's been just one tool that appears to do what I want. Still searching, however, because want to do it with registry editing.

It seems there's a difference of opinions concerning which folder is the "current" one. I sincerely believe that, while in "/home/user/test", my current folder is exactly "/home/user/test", and I want my newly opened terminal to point there. However, nearly all solutions target folders *inside* "/home/user/test".

I want to be able to right-click inside the current folder (that is, in the empty space around the icons in the folder that I'm browsing) and have a "Command prompt"/"Terminal". (I personally want it only on Windows – on Linux I work in the terminal and browse on demand (`nautilus .`)).

Use cases I've had with file managers and terminals:
Windows: Did an SVN checkout and browsing the code using GUI editors. Now I want to fire a terminal and `grep -r` (gnuwin) for a string. No subfolders here to click on. Going to parent folder so I have something to click on is not an option.
Linux: I'm browsing a recent photo dump using Nautilus previews. Next thing, I want to archive some images based on a filename regex match. Again, no subfolders to click.

But, either nearly no one has had my problem, or I can't find the right search terms.

Cheers,
Lyubo

After the installation via synaptics there's no need to log off and back in!

Just proceed like this:

- install via synaptics the package – nautilus-open-terminal;
- run this command on the terminal – killall nautilus;
- invoke the program launcher by pressing (ALT)+(F2) and type nautilus.

- done!
by BRGZZ