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

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.