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Registered: 2023-02-19

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Thunar - Split View - Move To and Copy To actions

Thunar 4.20.2

I was wondering if anyone knew if the following was possible to achieve with Thunar - Custom Actions.
I am looking for two tools that would work in Split View mode.

Move To = Move selected items from the current active pane to the non active pane
Copy To = Copy selected items from the current active pane to the non active pane

I had original thought that I read how to achieve this in the Thunar manual page for Custom Actions but I do not see it any longer.

I also found a webpage that I thought showed how to achieve this but turns out they were not related to **Split View** in any way.
Instead they were tools that just opened up a file picker style dialog (using "Zenity" dialog tool), requiring user to find/pick the folder they wanted to move/copy selected items to, which to me is not what I was looking for.

As far as I know Custom Actions does not include any %variables for Split View panes.
Only thing I can think of is a bash script that would require the use of "xdotool" to activate certain Thunar actions to achieve this but seems like it might be a little complex / maybe unreliable to trust using regularly.

If anyone is aware of any way to achieve these two requested actions, please let me know.
Thank You