How To Get Collection Of Cool Scripts In Nautilus Context Menu In Linux Mint / Ubuntu

Here’s how to get collection of cool scripts in nautilus context menu in Linux Mint 11 / Ubuntu 11.04:

1. Issue the following command at the terminal –

cd ~

2. Issue the following command at the terminal –

cd .gnome2

[Note: People running older versions of Gnome may have ‘.gnome’ folder instead of ‘.gnome2’, in which case, the above command will get modified to – cd .gnome]

3. Now, issue the following command at the terminal –

wget https://g-scripts.sourceforge.net/nautilus-scripts.tar.gz

4. After the file has been downloaded, issue the following command –

tar -zxvf nautilus-scripts.tar.gz

5. After the files have been extracted, start nautilus and check out the right-click context menu, which will now present you with a collection of cool and very useful scripts.

The following scripts will be available –

Archiving –

archiver-unarchiver
Compress__.bz2_
Compress__.gz_
Decompress
gnome-archive
super-extractor
unrar

Execute –

command_prompt_here
gedit
ghex
glimmer
gnome2-terminal-here
Open Terminal Here
Play in XMMS
root-nautilus-here
root-terminal-here
run
terminal-here
xemacs
xine
XMMS
xsu-terminal-here

File Info –

filetype
FileUsedBy
ggrep
gtk-du
gtk2-du
gtk2-grep
mimetype
Search Here
Show MD5 Sum
Show_Parameters
wordcount

File Processing –

concatenate
dos2unix
doublespace
latex
latex2ps
Mail In Evolution
mail_file
mail_file2
maker
New Text Document
new-text-document
pdf2ps
pixdir2html.pl
pprint
print
print_with_openoffice
ps2pdf
scp2host
scp_to_host
search_n_replace
secure copy
superexec.py

File System Management –

burn_dir
burn_iso
change_name
chmod
chmog
copyhome
Get Photos
junksorter
Junksorter.pl
linker
lowercase
Make Link
mount_loopback
moveup
QuickBurn
Search Here
set_exec
set_read_only
shredder
UnExec
uppercase

Multimedia –

convert_to_jpeg
convert_to_png
create-vcd
Create_Thumbnail
dv_to_mpg
mirror_jpg
Naudilus
Play_in_XMMS
Queue to XMMS
queue_to_xmms
rotate
rotate_image
rotate_jpg_left
rotate_jpg_right
scale_image
scale_image_to_sizes
Show Digital Photo EXIF data
slideshow
watermark
XMMS_Enqueue

Obsolete –

bzip2
converter
create-zip
create_file
create_targz
gb-unzip
gzip
mailinbalsa
mail_image
RPM-install-update
to_upper
uncompress_all

System Configuration –

archiver-config
Debian_Package
Hide or Show Hidden Files
Install to Palm
Install_Galeon_Theme
install_rpm
make-nautilus-script
make_launcher
pseudo-nautilus
pynautilus
Query_RPM
RPM-install-update
RPM-tools
Set image as Wallpaper
Set_as_Directory_Icon
Set_as_Wallpaper
Show_Directory_Metafile