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A Thunar Custom Action is an item that has been added to the right-click menu of the Thunar file manager. These menu items help you do special things with or to selected files or directories. These items are added by opening the Thunar file manager and at the top menu use "Edit --> Configure custom actions..."
Name |
Description |
Command |
| Burn ISO to disc | Burn an ISO to a blank disc at normal speed | xterm -T 'Burning ISO to disc...' -e growisofs -dvd-compat -Z "$(inxi -d | grep Optical | awk '{print $4}')"=%f |
| Check data integrity | Compare ISO and md5sum files | yad --info --title="Check md5 for %n" --text="$(md5sum -c %f)" | yad --progress --percentage="50" --auto-kill --auto-close --title="Checksum utility" --text="Checking md5sum for %n" |
| Compute md5sum | Display checksum of ISO | yad --info --title="Check md5sum for %n" --text="$(md5sum %n)" | yad --width=350 --height=250 --progress --percentage="50" --auto-kill --auto-close --title="Checksum utility" --text="Calculating md5sum for %n" |
| Convert to PNG | Convert ANS file to PNG | ansilove %F |
| Convert to sprite-sheet | Convert an animated GIF (89a) to a single-row sprite-sheet | montage %f -tile x1 -geometry +0+0 -alpha On -background "rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.0)" -quality 100 %n.png |
| Create symlink | Softlink between two files or directories | ln -s %f "%n (symlink)" |
| Download copied link here... | Download copied URL to this location. | xterm -e curl -JLO -A 'Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:54.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/70.0' "$(xsel --clipboard --output)" |
| Open root Thunar here | Open this folder with administrative rights | gksu thunar %f |
| Open terminal here | Launch terminal emulator here | exo-open --working-directory %f --launch TerminalEmulator |
| Open with Brandy | Open selected file with a BBC BASIC interpreter | brandy -load %f |
| Open with POSTER | Open ANSI file with poster | dir=%d; file=%n; fbname="$(basename "${file}" | cut -d . -f1 | sed 's/ //g')"; fext="$(echo "${file}" | awk -F . '{print $NF}')"; if [ "$(echo ${fbname} | wc -c)" -gt 9 ]; then file="$(echo ${fbname} | cut -c1-6)" && file="${file}~1.$fext";fi && dosbox -securemode -exit -c "mount c /home/psychos/Applications/RetroGrab/DOS/Programs/Graphics/poster12" -c "mount d $(readlink -f ${dir})" -c "c:\\POSTER.EXE + /m1 d:\\${file}" |
| Paste to file | Paste text from clipboard to a file (Clipboard.txt) | xsel -b > Clipboard.txt |
| Play with Timidity++ | Quickly play a MIDI file | xterm -e timidity %F |
| Print file | Print the file with lp | lp %f |
| QuickDOS | Open a file with a DOS program using DOSBox. This is an example using the PictView program. | dir=%d; file=%n; fbname="$(basename "${file}" | cut -d . -f1 | sed 's/ //g')"; fext="$(echo "${file}" | awk -F . '{print $NF}')"; if [ "$(echo ${fbname} | wc -c)" -gt 9 ]; then file="$(echo ${fbname} | cut -c1-6)" && file="${file}~1.$fext";fi && dosbox -securemode -exit -c "mount c /home/psychos/Applications/RetroGrab/DOS/Programs/Graphics/pictview" -c "mount d $(readlink -f ${dir})" -c "c:\\pictview.exe d:\\${file}" |
| QuickEdit | Quickly edit one of several supported file formats using the QuickEdit script. | /opt/psychostools/Scripts/quickedit %f |
| Run WAD | Run a DOOM WAD file using LZDoom | lzdoom -iwad %f |
| Search here | Open Catfish at this location | catfish --path=%f |
| Sketchify | Convert selected images to sketches using gmic. | for file in %F; do gmic "$file" hardsketchbw 80,70,0.07,0 smoothness=2 output "$file" && convert "$file" -colors 16 -depth 4 -dither none "${file%%.*}.png" && rm "$file"; done |
| Spellcheck Scribus Project | Spellchecking for Scribus project files using aspell | xfce4-terminal -x aspell --lang=en --encoding=utf-8 --mode=sgml --add-sgml-check=ch check %f |