Is filemanager-actions working with 19.04?
Solution 1
The FMA is installable from universe pocket since Ubuntu 19.04 (disco dingo, now EOL) and then on supported 20.04 LTS (focal fossa) with
sudo apt-get install filemanager-actions
Then you need to run fma-config-tool
(FileManager-Actions Configuration Tool) and make sure that you have checked checkboxes
Nautilus Item
[v] Display item in selection context menu
[v] Display item in location context menu
and have saved settings.
The documentation is available from official help which is available from fma-config-tool
with F1 (or with yelp ghelp:fma-config-tool
).
Then you need to install Nautilus Actions package with
sudo apt-get install nautilus-actions
then restart Nautilus with nautilus -q
.
The corresponding menu item will be shown in the right mouse click menus:
Note: the actions set in fma-config-tool
will be shown in Caja in Nemo too. In these cases we need to install corresponding caja-actions
and/or nemo-extension-fma
packages.
Solution 2
I am writing this answer because I am not eligible to comment here, only a small correction in @N0rbert answer and that is to install nautilus-actions we have to use the command sudo apt install nautilus-extension-fma
in ubuntu 20.04 release.
the rest of the answer would be same.
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Retired, previously support engineer at Thomson Reuters
Updated on September 18, 2022Comments
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pled over 1 year
I installed
filemanager-actions
from Ubuntu software, but cannot succeed to create a new entry in the file manager context menu :I installed
gnome-search-tool
, and want to add it on a right click on a folder innautilus
.So I create a new action in
filemanager-actions
, on the Action tab I enter "Search...
" for the label, and in the Command tab, I enter "gnome-search-tool
" in the path field, plus "--path="%d"
" in the parameter field.But nothing appears in
nautilus
; after restart or reboot still nothing.Am I missing something, or is it just not working ? Is there a way to achieve that ? Idea is to be able to search within files for some keywords in a specific folder/subfolders. Thanks.
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pled about 5 yearsThank you, much better like this. Still two remarks : I was expecting the menu to appear at first level, not below "FileManager-Actions actions", and second the search tool opens in the current directory, not the folder I clicked on (for example I have nautilus in /home/user, I right click on /home/user/folder1 and select my action : the search tool opens with /home/user as the folder to search in).
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N0rbert about 5 yearsIt seems that it works this way. I have tested FMA with simple
zenity
example. You can read some official documentation which is available fromfma-config-tool
(or withyelp ghelp:fma-config-tool
). I think that we have solved original problem. -
stefg-bz almost 5 years@pled for items to appear at top level in the context menu, not under "FileManager-Actions actions", you have to uncheck the option in
fma-config-tool
Edit > Preferences > Runtime Preferences > "Create a root 'FileManager-Actions' menu" -
pled almost 5 years@stefg-bz : Thanks, much better like this !
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Carlos Pinzón over 3 yearsThis worked for me in Ubuntu 20.04, august 2020
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Eiman over 3 yearsAfter upgrading to Ubuntu 20.10, both
filemanager-actions
andnautilus-actions
packages have been removed and I cannot reinstall them anymore viaapt
. Could you help me with this issue? Thanks -
N0rbert over 3 yearsSimple ignore this GNOME dead-stuff, use MATE with Caja and
caja-actions
instead.