Missing new file in Ubuntu 15.04

Question

My question is pretty much the same like this one:

The New file operation is missing in context menu. How can I fix it?

The only difference is that I'm running Ubuntu 15.04. The accepted answer posted in the question above does not work for me - after creating folder Templates and new file inside simply nothing happens.

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered May 27 '15 at 17:37

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Open ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs and find XDG_TEMPLATE_DIR. Make sure that it looks like this:

XDG_TEMPLATE_DIR=$HOME/Templates

If not, change the value so that it looks like that.

answered May 27 '15 at 17:37

David Bailey

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Steven Du · Answer 2 · 2015-07-08T10:56:40.040

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After you check the template setting in @David Bailey 's post.

You need to create an empty file, to say Text.txt in your $HOME/Templates folder, eg by open a terminal in that folder and

echo > Text.txt

Then you have a "new document" in context menu.

Works for me on UBUNTU 15.04

edited Jul 08 '15 at 10:56

answered Jul 08 '15 at 04:26

Steven Du

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Missing new file in Ubuntu 15.04

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