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cg

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Registered: 2023-08-16

Posts: 2

My favorite Thunar custom actions

(Replace BOC.flac with a short audio file you have)
(Icon theme used: Ubo Icons)

Name: Extract here
Description: Extracts tar.xz, tar.zst, tar.gz, tgz, tar.bz2,tar archives
Command: tar xf %n && play /home/k/backups/BOC.flac
File pattern: *.tar.xz;*.tar.zst;*.tar.gz;*.tgz;*tar.bz2;*.tar
Appears if selection contains: Other Files
icon: Status Icons > package-downgrade

Name: Extract here
Description: Extracts zip, rar, 7z archives
Command: 7z x %n && play /home/k/backups/BOC.flac
File pattern: *.zip;*.rar;*.7z
Appears if selection contains: Other Files
icon: Status Icons > package-downgrade

Name: Extract here
Description: Extracts zpaq archives
(Opens a terminal to execute to show details, extracts on same folder)
Command: sh -c cd %f && kitty --hold sh -c "zpaq x %n && play /home/k/backups/BOC.flac
File pattern: *.zpaq
Appears if selection contains: Other files
icon: Status Icons > package-downgrade

Name: Compress
Description: Compresses a folder with zpaq
Command: sh -c cd %f && kitty --hold sh -c "zpaq a %f.zpaq %f -m4 && play /home/k/backups/BOC.flac"
File pattern: *
Range: *
Appears if selection contains: Directories
icon: All Icons > archive-add

Name: Root Thunar
Description: Opens a folder to a root Thunar
Command: sudo thunar %f
File pattern: *
Appears if selection contains: Directories
icon: All Icons > org.xfce.thunar

Name: Searchmonkey
Description: Opens a folder with Searchmonkey
Command: searchmonkey -d %f
File pattern: *
Appears if selection contains: Directories
icon: All Icons > searchmonkey

Name: Kitty
Description: Open a kitty terminal in current folder
Command: sh -c "cd %f && kitty"
Keyboard shortcut: Ctrl+Space
File pattern: *
Appears if selection contains: Directories
icon: All Icons > kitty

Name: Edit as root
Description: Edit a text file with root privileges
Command: sudo gedit %f
File pattern: *
Range: *
Appears if selection contains: Texts
icon: All Icons > folder-red

Last edited by cg (2023-08-16 19:27:34)