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Where is the "scripts" directory in Nautilus 43?

IQAndreas

1/31/24, 6:47 AM

Where do you put the scripts that appear in the context menu when you right click in a folder or on a file in Nautilus?

(Screenshot from a previous version of Nautilus)

My scripts used to work just fine in older versions, but no matter where I place them now, my scripts don't seem to be picked up by Nautilus.

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FedKad

1/31/24, 8:33 AM

Put them under `~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts`.

IQAndreas

3/7/24, 7:37 PM

@FedKad That was it! (I also realized the scripts weren't showing up because they weren't marked as executable ) Make the comment a full answer and I will accept it.

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FedKad

3/8/24, 10:41 AM

I normally put my scripts under my user directory called ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts. One such sample script is given below:

#!/bin/bash
## Variables: (Refer to: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NautilusScriptsHowto)
# NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_CURRENT_URI='file://... current directory'
# NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS='... each file is terminated with \n'
# NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_URIS='file://... each file is terminated with \n'
# NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_WINDOW_GEOMETRY=1920x999+0+0

echo -n "$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS" | sed -z 's/.$//' | xsel -b -i
zenity --info --no-wrap --no-markup \
  --title="File name(s) copied to Clipboard:" \
  --text="$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS"

You can save the above script as ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/CopyFile_Path and make it executable¹. After that, you can select some files in Nautilus, right click and go to the Scripts → CopyFile_Path menu item.

You can also group your scripts under sub-directories of the scripts/ directory. They will be displayed as sub-menu items in the right-click menu.

For more details, please look at another of my answers here.

^{¹ Refer to the man pages of xsel and zenity commands. If you don't have these commands on your system, you will have to sudo apt install xsel zenity.}

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matigo

1/31/24, 7:21 AM

Based on the documentation, scripts are loaded from three locations in this order:

$XDG_DATA_HOME/nautilus-python/extensions (i.e. ~/.local/share/…)
nautilus_prefix/share/nautilus-python/extensions (i.e. ~/Development/…)
$XDG_DATA_DIRS/nautilus-python/extensions (i.e. /usr/share/…)

After copying a Python script, we're asked to restart Nautilus to ensure the locations are read and any new scripts are loaded.

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IQAndreas

1/31/24, 10:12 AM

That seems to be specific to the `nautilus-python` package. Is that included by default in Ubuntu 22.10, or is that something you have to install explicitly?

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