Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder4.news.weretis.net!newsreader4.netcologne.de!news.netcologne.de!newsfeed.kamp.net!newsfeed.kamp.net!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: Huge Newsgroups: uk.comp.os.linux Subject: Re: Paste buffer Date: 12 Oct 2016 20:47:29 GMT Organization: Piglet's Pickles & Preserves Lines: 21 Message-ID: References: Reply-To: usenet@huge.org.uk X-Trace: individual.net zHCChu0Gwzlq5uU223dQwA1O8lHEMsdYUISfhKB4W7OgUjQlrJ Cancel-Lock: sha1:iQFosm8+DzSgN761bMB2h4UPQMY= X-No-Archive: Yes X-Clacks-Overhead: GNU Terry Pratchett User-Agent: slrn/1.0.1 (Linux) Xref: csiph.com uk.comp.os.linux:20292 On 2016-10-12, Jim Price wrote: > On 12/10/16 21:26, Huge wrote: >> Can anyone think of an easier way to get a filename into the paste buffer >> than to right click it in a file chooser, select 'Rename', then CTRL-C? >> >> (Mint 17/MATE is it makes any difference.) > > MATE uses the Caja file mangler by default, and that is based on the > Nautilus from Gnome2. That allowed you to add scripts to the right click > menu by placing them in the appropriate folder. If this functionality > has made it through the transformation to Mint MATE, you would be able > to use a script like this along with xclip to get the full filename > (including path) into the clipboard: You, Sir, are an absolute star. That works a treat. Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! -- Today is Setting Orange, the 66th day of Bureaucracy in the YOLD 3182 I don't have an attitude problem. If you have a problem with my attitude, that's your problem.