Comments on: Howto Add Items to the Right-Click Menu in Nautilus

By: Parley Kennelly

Parley Kennelly — Sat, 04 Sep 2010 12:48:31 +0000

@David, Can you post the set up for printing *.pdf files? That is exactly what I was looking for when I found this page.

Thanks.

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 29 May 2010 00:49:23 +0000

This just doesn’t work in the latest version (2.30). I’ve reported the bug. Currently this product is totally unusable.

User errors aren’t currently reported to the user, aside from the occasional lame idea of marking an item red. Users need to know what is wrong before they can fix it… this is extremely basic design principles here, so I’m not impressed!!!

By: Geert

Geert — Sun, 29 Nov 2009 12:08:16 +0000

Using Ubuntu 9.10 (Gnome desktop), I tried the above method to have an item to open a terminal when right-clicking in Nautilus on a folder.
The command to be used is /usr/bin/gnome-terminal. I added no parameter, since I only want this item to appear in the context menu when I right-click in Nautilus, the moment a directory is selected.
Hence, in the tab “Conditions” I selected the “Only folders” option for the section “Appears if selection contains”.
The rest of all the options/items is left untouched.
However, after closing the Nautilus Actions Configuration and also restarting the Nautilus browser, I can’t see the newly created menu in the right-click context menu, when I first select a directory.
Any ideas?

By: David

David — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 14:18:41 +0000

I just finished writing a nautilus script that allows a user to right click on pdf documents and print them… Now I can make it even better!

By: Andrey

Andrey — Sat, 01 Aug 2009 13:05:13 +0000

I use Ubuntu 8.10.
I discovered that Action/Parameters string should be different than one in the article. For me correct string is like this: -e %M.
Anyway thanks for the article.

By: helios

helios — Tue, 09 Jun 2009 21:06:45 +0000

Jonathan, do you have, or is there a list anywhere that will show people the different things that can be added? I know for a fact that there are things that I want to do with this but right off the top of my head, I can’t think of any. Maybe a list of options/items would help folks mentally challenged like me make good use of this great tool.

By: Evan

Evan — Fri, 17 Apr 2009 18:49:35 +0000

Great tutorial – thanks. I was looking just this type of thing to leverage imagemagick conversions from within the right click menu. Awesome! I am having the same problem as the previous poster in regards to icons, however. I tried several different icon formats, but nothing seems to show in the right-click menu.

By: Thomas

Thomas — Fri, 13 Mar 2009 21:22:59 +0000

Great how-to, Jonathan. Do you know of any requirements for the icons to be added to the context menu? I have added a 16×16 png icon which does not show in the context menu, though. Weirdly enough, it does show in the Nautilus Action list, however. Any help is greatly appreciated.