Adding extra options to right-click menu

Question

Are there any more options that can be added to the right click menu in Ubuntu? e.g when right clicking in nautilus or desktop?

One way you can do this by adding a PPA with 'Nautilus Actions Extra' described here on OMG!Ubuntu: http://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2011/12/how-to-add-actions-emblem-support-back-to-nautilus-in-ubuntu-11-10/ — Tom Brossman, Dec 17 '11 at 18:49

score 18 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 23 '17 at 06:46

The first thing you need to do is install the Nautilus Actions application:
```
sudo apt-get install nautilus-actions
```
After it is installed, press the super(windows) key then search for Nautilus Actions you will find the icon click on it then you should now see the Nautilus Actions main screen
Click the Add button and you should see the Add a New Action screen
Fill out the Menu Item & Action properties with whatever you would like in your right click menu. Above, you can see I am using VLC as an example.

Next, click on the Conditions tab.
Under the Conditions tab you need to make sure that Both is selected under “Appears if selections contains”.

Next, click on Advanced Conditions
First, uncheck the “File / Local Files” box. Second, in order for the menu items you add to appear every time you right click, you will need to add a blank entry under the Advanced Conditions. To do this, click on the + and erase “new-scheme” and “new-scheme description” so that both entries are blank.
Click OK.
You now have added your first right click menu item. In order for the item to appear on your right click menu, you need to restart the nautilus daemon.
```
killall -HUP nautilus
```

Now you should be able to see the VLC media player on the right click menu.

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To continue adding more items to the menu, repeat steps 3 through 8 until you are satisfied.

score 1 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 23 '24 at 08:56

I had the same problem and I was not able to run all the new and old packages of filemanager-actions,nautilus-action, etc to run with Ubuntu 23.10

So my solution at the end was to install nautilus-python and write my own extension nautilus-poem. The extension works with a configuration file so that you need only to install once and can configure multiple actions and conditions:

- label: Right click for submenu
  tip: Click me now
  subitems:
     - label: 2nd level right, nest me more?
- label: Flatten selected folder
  conditions:
     - "directory_count > 0"
  click: /do-something.sh {POEM_FILES}

Since I started development some days ago it has some limitations, but feel free to contribute or contact me in case you need something implemented

Adding extra options to right-click menu

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