how do i add context menu item in gnome/nautilus.

keratos · 05-29-2007, 10:16 AM

Does anyone know how I can add a menu item in Gnome from the right mouse click operation inside nautilus.

In other words, I'm inside nautilus. Select a file of type "mpeg". Right click it. I want a menu item to appear with "Convert to DVD..". Can I do this, how? Also, how do I attach a script to the menu item.

Thanks in advance.

macemoneta · 05-30-2007, 07:27 PM

Just create a script (or a link to a script) in ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/ and it will appear in the right-click scripts sub-menu.

keratos · 05-31-2007, 06:01 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by macemoneta

Just create a script (or a link to a script) in ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/ and it will appear in the right-click scripts sub-menu.

Thanks

what arguments are passed into a script this way?

What I REALLY wanted was a context sensitive right-click menu with discrete individual options rather than a set of option off a "scripts" tree. In other words, if i right click on an AVI file then I can select "Convert" from the menu. If I right click on a TXT file then "Convert" does not appear.

Can I do this?

macemoneta · 05-31-2007, 08:55 AM

The script is called with the name(s) of the selected files/folders. The current working directory (pwd) that the script is invoked from will be the one the script executes from.

Unfortunately, you can't create a context sensitive menu, but you can group scripts in subdirectories to separate functions (which will appear as sub-menus in the the scripts menu).

keratos · 05-31-2007, 10:16 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by macemoneta

The script is called with the name(s) of the selected files/folders. The current working directory (pwd) that the script is invoked from will be the one the script executes from.

Unfortunately, you can't create a context sensitive menu, but you can group scripts in subdirectories to separate functions (which will appear as sub-menus in the the scripts menu).

Ah. Great. That will do the job then

Thanks buddy.

keratos · 06-03-2007, 05:34 AM

I've created the following script under ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts

Code:

#!/bin/bash
for uri in $NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_URIS;
do gnome-sudo "gnome-open $uri" &
done

and yet it does not appear on the right-lick menu of nautilus folders.

I've chmod +x on the file but still no joy.

Tried logging out too. No joy.

Ideas???

Thanks.

macemoneta · 06-03-2007, 09:42 AM

The nautilus scripts function appears to be a little picky about the interpreter. You can get around the problem by moving the script to your ~/bin/ directory, then creating a symlink to it in the ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/ directory. For example:

cd ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/
mv Convert ~/bin/
ln -s ~/bin/Convert ./

keratos · 06-03-2007, 10:48 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by macemoneta

The nautilus scripts function appears to be a little picky about the interpreter. You can get around the problem by moving the script to your ~/bin/ directory, then creating a symlink to it in the ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/ directory. For example:

cd ~/.gnome2/nautilus-scripts/
mv Convert ~/bin/
ln -s ~/bin/Convert ./

thanks. it works.