Extending Nautilus Context Menus with Nautilus-Actions | Linux Today

Extending Nautilus Context Menus with Nautilus-Actions

Written By
Web Webster
Web Webster
Oct 24, 2007

“There are literally dozens of plugins and extensions for
Nautilus, the default file manager on the GNOME desktop
environment, but there is just one that allows you to customize the
Nautilus context menu items. The Nautilus-actions extension enables
you to add customized entries to the context menu such that, when
you right-click a file, the context menu will show options specific
to that file.

“Ubuntu and Fedora users can use apt-get and yum respectively to
install Nautilus-actions…”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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