Quick look / hear

Install GNOME Sushi on Ubuntu

GNOME Sushi is a simple feature that makes a major impact on your workflow. Its seamless preview prowess is such that, after a few days of use, you will begin to wonder how you managed without it!

To install GNOME Sushi on Ubuntu run this command:

sudo apt-get install gnome-sushi

GNOME Sushi is an alternative to macOS ‘Quick Look‘ for Linux desktops that use Nautilus, aka GNOME’s famous file manager.

You select a file in Nautilus, tap the spacebar, and an instantaneous (and usually interactive) preview of the file appears — no need to open a full app.

Sushi supports file previews for most plain-text documents, including scripts with syntax highlighting, as well PDFs, HTML files, and LibreOffice documents. Music and video file previews use the GStreamer framework to let you to seek/scrub through them.