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Old Revision: http://thunar.xfce.org/pwiki/documentation/custom_actions?rev=1260592044
New Revision: http://thunar.xfce.org/pwiki/documentation/custom_actions
Edit Summary: Added: Finding files in the current folder with catfish, Opening a root terminal, Opening a root Thunar, Editing as root, Comparing selected files/directories, Changing OpenOffice.org supported formats
User        : churchyard

@@ -38,8 +38,16 @@
      * File pattern: *
      * Appears if selection contains: Directories
  
  **Note:** For this action, you'll need to have ''gnome-search-tool'' installed, which is part of the ''gnome-utils'' package. This program also has a [[http://linux.die.net/man/1/gnome-search-tool|lot of other nice command-line options]] which you could use to create even more specialized actions.
+ 
+ ==== Finding files in the current folder with catfish ====
+     * Name: **Search files...**
+     * Command: ''catfish --fileman=thunar --path=%f''
+     * File pattern: *
+     * Appears if selection contains: Directories
+ 
+ **Note:** For this action, you'll need to have ''catfish'' installed, which is part of the ''catfish'' package.
  
  ==== Working with archives  (tar, gzip, etc) ====
      * Name: **Extract here (bzip2)**
      * Command: ''tar xjf %n''
@@ -55,9 +63,9 @@
      * Command: ''tar czvf %n.tar.gz %n''
      * File pattern: *
      * Appears if selection contains: Directories
  
- **Hint:** You may prefer the [[http://thunar.xfce.org/plugins.html#thunar-archive-plugin|Thunar Archive Plugin]], which does pretty much the same thing with less manual setup required on your part. It's either included with your distribution (in the case of [[http://xubuntu.org/|Xubuntu]]), or available as a separate package (''thunar-archive-plugin'' in Debian Etch). You might also need the ''xarchiver'' package for things to work quite right.
+ **Hint:** You may prefer the [[http://thunar.xfce.org/plugins.html#thunar-archive-plugin|Thunar Archive Plugin]], which does pretty much the same thing with less manual setup required on your part. It's either included with your distribution (in the case of [[http://xubuntu.org/|Xubuntu]]), or available as a separate package (''thunar-archive-plugin'' in Debian Etch). You might also need the ''xarchiver'' or "squeeze" package for things to work quite right.
  
  ==== Playing music files ====
      * Name: **Play with XMMS**
      * Command: ''xmms %F''
@@ -68,8 +76,9 @@
      * Command: ''xmms -e %F''
      * File pattern: *
      * Appears if selection contains: Directories, Audio Files
  
+ **Hint:** Works exactly the same with Audacious.
  
  ==== Burning an ISO file to a CD ====
      * Name: **Burn with K3B**
      * Command: ''%%k3b --cdimage %f%%''
@@ -107,8 +116,30 @@
      * File pattern: *
      * Appears if selection contains: Directories
  
  **Note:** You might need to type ''xfce4-terminal'' instead of just ''terminal'' for some distributions.
+ 
+ ==== Opening a root terminal ====
+     * Name: **Open a root terminal here**
+     * Command: ''gksu "xfce4-terminal --default-working-directory=%f"''
+     * File pattern: *
+     * Appears if selection contains: Directories
+ 
+ **Note:** You should rewrite the command with normal straight quotes.
+ 
+ ==== Opening a root Thunar ====
+     * Name: **Open a root Thunar here**
+     * Command: ''gksu thunar %f''
+     * File pattern: *
+     * Appears if selection contains: Directories
+ 
+ ==== Editing as root ====
+     * Name: **Edit as root**
+     * Command: ''gksu put-your-favourite-text-editor-here %f''
+     * File pattern: *
+     * Appears if selection contains: Text files
+ 
+ **Note:** You'll need to replace put-your-favourite-text-editor-here with your favourite text editor (e.g. mousepad or geany).
  
  ==== Creating a symbolic link ====
      * Name: **Create symlink**
      * Command: ''ln -s %f "%n (symlink)"''
@@ -137,10 +168,33 @@
      * Command: ''baobab %d''
      * File pattern: *
      * Appears if selection contains: Tick all the boxes
  
- Note: The idea is to get a visual picture of the current directory and any subdirectories. You could also use fsview or filelight, but the visuals are crisper in baobab.
+ **Note:** The idea is to get a visual picture of the current directory and any subdirectories. You could also use fsview or filelight, but the visuals are crisper in baobab.
  
  ==== Using 'nano' text editor ====
      * Command: ''terminal -x nano %f''
  
  Since nano isn't a GUI app, you must start it in a terminal window.
+ 
+ ==== Comparing selected files/directories ====
+     * Name: **Compare**
+     * Command: ''meld %F''
+     * File pattern: *
+     * Appears if selection contains: Directories and Text files
+ 
+ **Note:** You will need ''meld'' package.
+ 
+ ==== Changing OpenOffice.org supported formats ====
+ **Note:** You will need ''unoconv'' package for all following actions.
+ 
+     * Name: **Convert to ODT**
+     * Command: ''unoconv -f odt %F''
+     * File pattern: *.doc;*.docx
+     * Appears if selection contains: Other files
+ 
+     * Name: **Export to PDF**
+     * Command: ''unoconv -f pdf %F''
+     * File pattern: *.doc;*.docx;*.odt;*.odp;*.pps;*.ppt;*.xls;*.xlsx;*.ods;*.pptx
+     * Appears if selection contains: Other files
+ 
+ You can go on, try ''man unoconv'' for details.



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