23 November, 2010

Easiest way to add nautilus scripts in Ubuntu

                  Here is a bit tutorial for adding nautilus scritps in ubuntu that will help you to increase the system accessibility. These scripts can be run by simply clicking the right mouse button and selecting any from the 'scripts' menu. The imporatnt advantage of the nautilus scripts is its easiness, for example we dont need a an image processing standalone application to rotate an image or convert it to another format or to mirror it... The only think that we need is to select the image and right clicking on it and choosing any of the scripts... its simple and can be accessed as shown in the figure...



Installing Nautilus scripts in Ubuntu 

Nautilus scripts are available for dowloading from G-script site. You can use the link here  to download it directly to your pc. Follow the steps below to to complete the installation.

  • Untar the downloaded file using the following command
 $ tar -xvzf  nautilus-scripts.tar.gz
  •  You can see the scripts arranged in a heirarchical manner inside the extracted folder. Copy the contents of the extracted nautilus-scripts folder  to the .gnome2/nautilus-scripts folder in your home directory. Since it a hidden folder you can't see it @ the first time. Click Ctrl + H key after enterin the home directory to see the hidden directory.
  • That's all for the installation... You can access the scripts by selecting a file > right clicking it > and choosing any of the scripts arranged in categories under the scripts menu.
Hope you enjoyed th tip...

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