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  Paste buffer Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-10-12 20:26 +0000
    Re: Paste buffer Jim Price <d1version@hotmail.com> - 2016-10-12 21:39 +0100
      Re: Paste buffer Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2016-10-12 20:47 +0000

#20290 — Paste buffer

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.)

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#20291

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:

<start of file>
#! /bin/bash

# Uses xclip which is not installed by default

URL="$PWD/$@"
echo "$URL" | xclip -i -selection "clipboard"
<eof>

If you don't want the full pathname, just the filename, remove $PWD/ 
from the URL= line.

On the Caja I have here the location for the script files is:
~/.config/caja/scripts

I have a load of other small scripts to do assorted other things from 
the right click scripts menu in Caja.

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#20292

On 2016-10-12, Jim Price <d1version@hotmail.com> 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!!!

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