I'm using ubuntu 20.04 (unity), right click extended menu (resize images, open in terminal etc) wont work on Desktop but it works with file manager --> Desktop.
i follow instructions fixes like "Have file manager handle the desktop" on gnome tweaks and option isn't available anymore.
any advice?
I would really like to get the old Gnome behavior restored, where you could right-click, hover over Open With... and then a submenu with a list of applications would open - something like this:
Have multiple 'open with' applications in context menu implies it can be done with nautilus-actions, which are now renamed and I installed as in Nautilus-actions in 18.04 ; now I can run fma-config-tool.
I found some generic explanations on how nautilus-actions works, like:
... but I cannot really figure out, what do I need to do, so I can add additional entry, say "Open With...", which when hovered, will give me a submenu with the same applications as in the screenshot above - depending on the file type of the selected and right-clicked type. Does anyone know how to do this?
Nautilus-actions configuration tool, which was needed in order to have context menu actions in Nautilus doesn't seem available in the Software center in 18.04 LTS.
(This seemed reported as a bug here - but confusingly specifying gedit instead of the correct package.)
This is not a Gnome-Nautilus feature, I think, as suggested in a comment, because I have seen the same Nautilus version 3.26.3 in Solus Linux, and there Nautilus Actions is available and usable. Solus provides also in its repo a different program called FileManager Configuration Tool, run with fma-config-tool, which excepting the name is identical and can be used only alternatively to the Nautilus actions usual tool. But none of them is available in Ubuntu, no matter the repos enabled in software sources settings.
How can Nautilus Actions tool (or its alternative) be installed in Ubuntu 18.04 in order to get the custom context menu actions?
I know that there are file managers that have custom actions - in fact all those used by the main Linux systems and by the main systems of the Ubuntu family have them: Caja, Nemo, PCManFM, Thunar, Dolphin, Pantheon-Files. But I am not asking about that here.
I'm using nautilus-actions to run scripts and commands by right clicking in nautilus and I know how to set nautilus-actions so that it only shows an option when certain conditions are met, such as mime-type, part of a name or a particular file extension.
I still haven't figured out how to show these options for any file, but not folders. I'm sure this option exists, but I just can't seem to find it. Does anyone know how to do that? if there is a graphical option, could you provide a screenshot of it, so I can try to localize it? Thanks!
When I rightclick a folder in Nautilus I find these options "Open in New Window" and "Open in New Tab". Is it possible to add an option "Open in New Pane" which would open the selected folder in a new pane as it appears when I press F3?
What would be the parameters for Nautilus Actions or can I realize this with Nautilus Scripts?