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Joe90

#! Junkie

Registered: 2013-10-10

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Thunar - Create New File

No shortcut for this in Thunar, but using xdotool you can have one:

1. Make a script, paste in the following save and make executable:

#!/bin/bash

## creates new file when thunar is active window
sleep 1
xdotool getactivewindow key alt+f d e

Create a new application shortcut, pointing to your new script file and with the key combination you prefer ( I used CTRL+SHFT+F)

Now when thunar is your active window and you need to create a new empty file, just hit the shortcut.

I found I had to put a 1 second delay in otherwise the script didn't seem to catch.

Last edited by Joe90 (2015-04-19 17:21:28)

woodape

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Re: Thunar - Create New File

Isn't there specifically an option in Thunar to create an empty file? Right click in Thunar -> Create Document -> Empty File

pvsage

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Re: Thunar - Create New File

^ There is.   I'd expect the code for it is something simple, like `read n; touch .\"$n"` wrapped in a dialog.  To paraphrase William of Ockham, "Don't make things any more complicated than they have to be."

Joe90

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Re: Thunar - Create New File

Aim was to use keyboard only, not mouse.

@pvsage please produce evidence, not just hypothesis, I did research this

If there is a better way, I am all ears but this is the simplest I could come up with, without using the mouse.

Kuno

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From: Osnabrück - DE

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Re: Thunar - Create New File

sudo apt-get install pcmanfm

damo

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Re: Thunar - Create New File

@Kuno

When did it get custom actions? That was always one of the good things about thunar compared to others.

Kuno

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Re: Thunar - Create New File

tknomanzr

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Re: Thunar - Create New File

pvsage

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pvsage

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Re: Thunar - Create New File

@Kuno:  Is there a way to open PCManFM's context menu without using the mouse?  In many applications, a press-and-release of the menu key does this, but it doesn't seem to work in PCManFM, and I can't find an equivalent.

Kuno

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Re: Thunar - Create New File

pvsage

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Re: Thunar - Create New File

^ If a file or directory within the PCManFM window is selected, then the context menu pops up with the menu key.  If nothing is selected, the menu key does nothing.  (This is with PCManFM in Jessie.  Can't remember if you mentioned you're sticking with Waldorf for now?  Older PCManFM may be better behaved.)

Kuno

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Re: Thunar - Create New File

pvsage

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Re: Thunar - Create New File

^ Good - sidebar resolved.

Back to my backpedal:  Linux is about choice.  If the default options don't work for you, there are always other ways.  Basically, what Joe90 did is make an xdotool macro to simulate the keystrokes that activate Thunar's File menu and `touch` a new document from there.  I never would have thought of anything like that!  (Well, I would have back when I was using Mac System 7, but that was literally half a lifetime ago.)

Joe90

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Re: Thunar - Create New File

Thanks pvsage for the background

I posted the tip as thunar is the default file manager in #! (or whatever!)

Yes, it only saves me a single key, but fits with the new folder shortcut.

Didn't know pcmanfm had come on so much, but have just got so used to my thunar setup and custom actions, and especially rename (for which I have not found anything better either- here we go again )

Head_on_a_Stick

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Re: Thunar - Create New File

Head_on_a_Stick

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CBizgreat!

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Re: Thunar - Create New File

AHHHHHH a giant NO, ma eyes, ma po eyes !

Sorry for 3 off topic's in a row Joe.

pvsage

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Re: Thunar - Create New File