Add open with VS Code to context menu in Ubuntu

Question

In windows, we have an option: adding "Open with code" action to context menu, this allows us to open any file or folder with VS Code.

Is there any way to add this feature in Ubuntu?

Possible duplicate of Globally associate file type with certain application — David Foerster, Jun 23 '18 at 19:34

score 46 · Answer 1 · edited Jun 28 '23 at 18:51

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Run

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/harry-cpp/code-nautilus/master/install.sh | bash

Just run this in your terminal, and it will add open with VS Code in context menu for Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.

Edit: Works as well for Ubuntu 20.04 LTS, 20.10 and 22.04 LTS.

Source: harry-cpp's GitHub Repository

edited Jun 28 '23 at 18:51

Pablo Bianchi

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answered Oct 31 '19 at 06:34

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Works on Ubuntu 20.04 as well – Rizwan Ahmed Shivalli May 24 '20 at 07:53
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Working on Ubuntu 20.10 too – Dijkie85 Oct 24 '20 at 16:36
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On my distro (Pop!_OS 20.10) I had to install the python3-nautilus package in order to get it to work. You can do that with sudo apt install python3-nautilus. – Andreas Myriounis May 02 '21 at 23:41
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Make sure to close all open windows first. Works great! – Omar Dulaimi Aug 17 '21 at 17:56
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Pop!_OS now also seems to add python3-nautilus so the manual step is no longer required – Imre_G Sep 13 '21 at 08:10
isn't there a way that you don't have to run a script that you don't know what has inside – Sahin Oct 31 '21 at 18:33
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@Sahin There's a way to see what's inside the script, you can go to https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cra0zy/code-nautilus/master/install.sh – Anmol Tomer Nov 02 '21 at 13:03
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This worked for me in Ubuntu 21.10. Note that the repo has now been renamed to https://github.com/harry-cpp/code-nautilus (although the old link still redirects there) – Vijay Prema Nov 03 '21 at 22:45
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this worked for me on Ubuntu 22.04. thanks! – userharis Jul 19 '22 at 22:34
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Also working on Ubuntu 22.04 – Amir Sep 13 '22 at 10:28

score 8 · Answer 2 · edited Jan 09 '20 at 08:20

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What you need to do is install Nautilus Actions

sudo apt install nautilus-actions

and add new action :

Path: code Parameters: %B

NOTE ❗ ❗ Modern version of Nautilus Actions (nautilus-actions package in trusty (14.04 LTS), xenial (16.04 LTS), artful (17.10)) are named as FileManager Actions (filemanager-actions package, it is not yet packaged in Debian and Ubuntu - see at repology.org).

sudo add-apt-repository ppa:daniel-marynicz/filemanager-actions

sudo apt-get install filemanager-actions-nautilus-extension

NOTE 2 As of Ubuntu 19.04, the package is filemanager-actions.

sudo apt-get install filemanager-actions

orginal post askubuntu.com/a/1031746/843203

edited Jan 09 '20 at 08:20

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answered Jun 25 '18 at 22:42

Leone

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"Package nautilus-actions is not available, but is referred to by another package. This may mean that the package is missing, has been obsoleted, or is only available from another source" – Michael Cole Jun 27 '18 at 17:23
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@MichaelCole Sorry ! Modern version of Nautilus Actions (nautilus-actions package in trusty (14.04 LTS), xenial (16.04 LTS), artful (17.10)) are named as FileManager Actions (filemanager-actions package, it is not yet packaged in Debian and Ubuntu - see at repology.org).
** sudo add-apt-repository ppa:daniel-marynicz/filemanager-actions **

sudo apt-get install filemanager-actions-nautilus-extension

orginal post https://askubuntu.com/a/1031746/843203
– Leone Jun 27 '18 at 17:36
where can I find the vscode icon to set it to this context-menu? – Saravanabalagi Ramachandran Jul 17 '20 at 15:24
This might be a long shot but... when opening vscode with right click actions from filemanager action, it does not import all of the bashrc $PATH. For example, if I right click for 'Open with Code' and try to debug a javacript file, vscode will say it can not find Node.js. However, when I open vscode normally, full $PATH is exported and can then debug javascript normally. Any idea why the right click aciton is missing $PATH export? – moredrowsy Jul 09 '21 at 23:31

score 6 · Answer 3 · edited Dec 16 '22 at 16:16

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If you're on 20.10 and you're running this script:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cra0zy/code-nautilus/master/install.sh | bash`

You'll need to install python3-nautilus because python-nautilus isn't in non-LTS versions of Ubuntu.

Simply install the python3 version of python-nautilus

sudo apt install python3-nautilus

Then restart nautilus (this will close all nautilus folders)

nautilus -q && nautilus &

And it should work.

edited Dec 16 '22 at 16:16

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answered Dec 19 '20 at 22:36

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The last command did it for me. Also, python3-nautilus wasn't found, so I installed python-nautilus instead. – Omar Dulaimi Apr 11 '22 at 13:07

score 3 · Answer 4 · answered Jun 23 '18 at 17:24

I was able to find this vscode extension for nautilus written by Crazy0 that lets you do this.

The steps can be found in that github gist, which are:

Go to the gist.
And do the following (also found in the head section of that gist):
- Place me in ~/.local/share/nautilus-python/extensions/, restrart Nautilus, and enjoy :)
- mkdir -p ~/.local/share/nautilus-python/extensions && cp -f VSCodeExtension.py ~/.local/share/nautilus-python/extensions/VSCodeExtension.py && nautilus -q

Just tested on Ubuntu Bionic and it works great.

score 2 · Answer 5 · answered May 30 '20 at 18:37

1.Create a file ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/open-in-code.sh with this content:

#!/bin/bash
if [ -n "$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS" ]; then
    set $NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS
    if [ $# -eq 1 ]; then
        destination="$1"
    else
        zenity --error --title="Error - Open in Visual Studio Code" \
        --text="You can only select one file/directory."
        exit 1
    fi
else
    destination="`echo "$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_CURRENT_URI" | sed 's/^file:\/\///'`"
fi

# It's only possible to go to local directories
if [ -n "`echo "$destination" | grep '^[a-zA-Z0-9]\+:'`" ]; then
    zenity --error --title="Error - Open in Visual Studio Code" \
    --text="Only local directories can be used."
    exit 1
fi

exec code "$destination"

2.Add execution permission to the file:

 $ chmod +x ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/open-in-code.sh

3.Restart Nautilius.

4.Right-click on a file or directory, you will see this:

Source: https://help.ubuntu.com/community/NautilusScriptsHowto

score 0 · Answer 6 · edited Nov 04 '20 at 15:35

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Just Run this command on your terminal:

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/cra0zy/code-nautilus/master/install.sh | bash

Source: itectec.com

edited Nov 04 '20 at 15:35

tinlyx

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I would not suggest that anyone pipe a script from the internet directly into your shell. It's dangerous. – Nmath Nov 08 '20 at 20:11
The same answer does exist – Sahin Oct 31 '21 at 18:22

Akif Kadıoğlu · Answer 7 · 2024-03-26T10:02:05.863

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also if you use VSCodium you can install my version of "python3-nautilus"

run

wget -qO- https://raw.githubusercontent.com/akifkadioglu/codium-nautilus/master/install.sh | bash

thank you Harry

edited Mar 26 '24 at 10:02

answered Mar 26 '24 at 10:01

Akif Kadıoğlu

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