ThunarCustomActions

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If you like thunar, you will probably love custom actions. These are user-defined commands that act upon selected files in thunar. Either on its own, or combined with a simple dialog app such as Zenity, these can be very powerful and useful indeed.

Thunar > Edit > Configure custom actions will take you to the dialog for creating and organising your custom actions. However, because this is GUI-oriented, the easiest way to install someone else's custom action is through a bash command.

Remove...

Command: rm -r Description: Removes the selected file(s) from the disk, bypassing any local Recycle bin. Useful when in samba shares. Requires confirmation for reasons of safety. Requires: zenity Installation:

CONTENT='&lt;action&gt;&lt;icon&gt;stock_delete&lt;/icon&gt;&lt;name&gt;Remove...&lt;/name&gt;&lt;command&gt;zenity --question --title=&amp;quot;Remove...&amp;quot; --window-icon=&amp;quot;/usr/share/icons/Tango/16x16/actions/edit-delete.png&amp;quot; --text=&amp;quot;Do you wish to permanently\nremove the selected file(s)?&amp;quot; ; if [ $? = 0 ] ; then rm -r %F ; fi&lt;/command&gt;&lt;description&gt;Permanently remove the selected file(s)&lt;/description&gt;&lt;patterns&gt;*&lt;/patterns&gt;&lt;directories/&gt;&lt;audio-files/&gt;&lt;image-files/&gt;&lt;other-files/&gt;&lt;text-files/&gt;&lt;video-files/&gt;&lt;/action&gt;'
cat $HOME/.config/Thunar/uca.xml &gt;&gt; newtmp
sed 's/&lt;\/actions&gt;//' &lt;newtmp &gt;newfile
echo $CONTENT &gt;&gt; newfile
mv $HOME/.config/Thunar/uca.xml $HOME/.config/Thunar/uca.xml.bak
mv newfile $HOME/.config/Thunar/uca.xml
rm newtmp

Create Symlink

Command: ln -s Description: Creates an absolute symbolic link to the selected file in the same folder, which can then be moved or renamed as desired. man ln for more info Requires: Installation:

CONTENT='&lt;action&gt;&lt;icon&gt;emblem-symbolic-link&lt;/icon&gt;&lt;name&gt;Create Symlink&lt;/name&gt;&lt;command&gt;ln -s %f %n.symlink&lt;/command&gt;&lt;description&gt;Creates a symbolic link to the selected object&lt;/description&gt;&lt;patterns&gt;*&lt;/patterns&gt;&lt;directories/&gt;&lt;audio-files/&gt;&lt;image-files/&gt;&lt;other-files/&gt;&lt;text-files/&gt;&lt;video-files/&gt;&lt;/action&gt;'
cat $HOME/.config/Thunar/uca.xml &gt;&gt; newtmp
sed 's/&lt;\/actions&gt;//' &lt;newtmp &gt;newfile
echo $CONTENT &gt;&gt; newfile
mv $HOME/.config/Thunar/uca.xml $HOME/.config/Thunar/uca.xml.bak
mv newfile $HOME/.config/Thunar/uca.xml
rm newtmp

The above, and other custom actions can be found at http://thunar.xfce.org/pwiki/documen...custom_actions , but it is by no means an exhaustive list.

If you have any custom actions of your own, please check out '~/config/Thunar/uca.xml' and post them here! Similar format appreciated

-e Originally posted The Ubuntu Forums (ubuntuforums.org)

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