Tutorial(s): Thunar Custom Actions--- simplify what you do

[Buck Fankers]

In case someone reading this topic hasn't yet discovered the Thunar Custom Actions feature...

I have a question, do you happen to know, which file saves all these Thunar custom actions?

Edit: looks like it is this one: (will copy it to another computer to see if it is working)
/home/mx/.config/Thunar/uca.xml

[skidoo]

Yes, ~/.config/Thunar/uca.xml should work when copied to another computer, or to a different user's home.
Bear in mind that you may need to chown the ownership of the file in its new location, else user will be unable to edit it.

[JmaCWQ]

Here's one I use regularly, Delete Immediately, deletes files/folders without the confirmation dialog appearing.







Be careful with it though, one miss click can cause an instant headache if all your unsaved work vanishes by mistake

[Buck Fankers]

Yes, ~/.config/Thunar/uca.xml should work when copied to another computer, or to a different user's home.
Bear in mind that you may need to chown the ownership of the file in its new location, else user will be unable to edit it.

Thank you!

[Buck Fankers]

Here's one I use regularly, Delete Immediately, deletes files/folders without the confirmation dialog appearing.

Nice, will add it and attach big red 'stop' or similar icon just to be extra alerted ;-)

[oops]

Since I have been putting a bunch of hours into creating/building my own Thunar Custom Actions, I thought I'd solicit comments from our Forums Community about what you have created/ use & like.

I posted a couple of my more recent creations here:
viewtopic.php?f=23&t=48279

I have a few more that I'll add once, I document their creation, for any who may benefit from these.

Hi,
Nice tuto ...
But I hope than Thunar will have like Nautilus, Nemo, Caja, an option to use some Thunar bash scripts ... it' that why I actually prefer Nemo (that's easier to build some scripts).

[Brigs]

Wow... nice tutor Thunar action here. i'll give share of mine action

Slug Filename : Rename the currently selected files, making the filenames lower-case & replacing spaces with dashes

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for file in %N; do mv "$file" "$(echo "$file" | tr -s ' ' | tr ' A-Z' '-a-z' | tr -s '-' | tr -c '[:alnum:][:cntrl:].' '-')"; done

Clean Meta Exif from image, required libimage-exiftool-perl

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xterm -e "exiftool -overwrite_original -all= %F; echo -n 'Press ENTER to continue...'; read"

Split .flac from .cue (u need only 1 .cue and 1 .flac with same name inside 1 directory), required cuetools

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xterm -e "shnsplit -f %f -t "%%n-%%p-%%a-%%t" -o flac *.flac; echo -n 'Press ENTER to continue...'; read"

Convert Dir to .iso udf image. required genisoimage (udf is .iso formatting that allow filesize more than 2gb)

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genisoimage -r -udf --allow-limited-size -o %f.iso %F | yad --progress --title="ISO Creation" --progress-text="Please wait ... File(s) being processed." --percentage=40 --auto-close --auto-kill

Extract mac dmg files to dir, sometimes i must working with mac .dmg compression image

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xterm -e "7z x %f; echo -n 'Press ENTER to continue...'; read"

Convert Flac to Alac (.m4a), never loose flac compression, alac work flawlessly with itunes

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xterm -e "ffmpeg -i %f -acodec alac %f.m4a; echo -n 'Press ENTER to continue...'; read"

[manyroads]

But I hope than Thunar will have like Nautilus, Nemo, Caja, an option to use some Thunar bash scripts ... it' that why I actually prefer Nemo (that's easier to build some scripts).

Many of those I mention are simply links to bash scripts...

[manyroads]

Wow... nice tutor Thunar action here. i'll give share of mine action

Slug Filename : Rename the currently selected files, making the filenames lower-case & replacing spaces with dashes

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for file in %N; do mv "$file" "$(echo "$file" | tr -s ' ' | tr ' A-Z' '-a-z' | tr -s '-' | tr -c '[:alnum:][:cntrl:].' '-')"; done

I really like this one and made two out of it for my digital text libraries
Replace filename space with dash

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for file in %N; do mv "$file" "$(echo "$file" | tr -s ' ' | tr -s '-' | tr -c '[:alnum:][:cntrl:].' '-')"; done 

Replace filename underscore with dash

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for file in %N; do mv "$file" "$(echo "$file" | tr -s '_' | tr -s ' ' | tr -c '[:alnum:][:cntrl:].' '-')"; done

[oops]

But I hope than Thunar will have like Nautilus, Nemo, Caja, an option to use some Thunar bash scripts ... it' that why I actually prefer Nemo (that's easier to build some scripts).

Many of those I mention are simply links to bash scripts...

Good news for me, so I have to learn and retry Thunar.