Add ‘New Document’ back to the right-click menu in Ubuntu 18.04

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Karim Buzdar
Dec 5, 2018

When I recently shifted to Ubuntu 18.04, I noticed that there was no option in the right-click menu of Nautilus to create an empty text file. This tutorial shows you how to get back that menu option.

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Karim Buzdar

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