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I want UltraCopier to manage the copy instead of Nautilus.
When I open Nautilus, select a file or folder Ctrl+C (or X), open another folder then Ctrl+V, I want this:

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instead of this:

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pomsky
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There was a dialogue with the nautilus developers late 2010 but it fizzled out without a conclusion.

The developers said that the current nautilus infrastructure does not allow for the integration of ultracopier with nautilus.

It was mentioned, it should be possible via nautilus scripts - but those scripts cannot be invoked via keyboard - only via the nautilus menu.

Thus to answer the question - no - and not very likely.

fossfreedom
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How to integrate ultracopier with nautilus ?

ultracopier integration with nautilus

  1. Open software center and just search "ultracop", you will find two files for nautilus:

Ultracopier in ubuntu software center

  • Advanced graphical file copy system(ultracopier)
  • copy files on nautilus with ultracopier(nautilus-ultracopier)

install both of them and log out and login. Done! whenever you copy or cut you will get "Paste with UltraCopier" option in nautilus context menu

for nemo users:
install

  • Advanced graphical file copy system(ultracopier)
  • copy files on Nemo with ultracopier(nemo-ultracopier)
Alex Jones
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The version 0.3 is not ready to use (lot of bug, need be in beta, not in pre-alpha). But it have some improvement to help to integrate to other GUI, for windows a plugin just overwrite the copy handler and send the copy list via the catchcopy protocol. If nautilus allow overwrite copy handler it will be very simple to write a plugin to integrate Ultracopier.

Herman
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I just posted this modification of Nemo-Ultracopier, which fixes the integration between Nemo and Ultracopier, and uses CopyQ to make the actual copy.

It works perfectly here with: Debian (trixie) + KDE Plasma/Wayland + latest stock Nemo + Ultracopier + CopyQ. (Gnome and Mate are installed too but not running)

https://github.com/ernzo/Nemo-UltraCopier/blob/patch-2/nemo-ultracopier.py

-Btw this was made by torturing ChatGPT for hours until it made it right, or almost..

The first version did perform the copy/paste allright, but failed to launch CopyQ on its own, so it needed to be launched manually.

Then I asked Copilot to fix the script, and it made one that could launch copyq automatically on its own.. but failed to perform the actual copy/paste.

So I went back to ChatGPT and asked to integrate one thing into the other.. And well, this is the final result!

All credits to the Original Developer/s, Lester, and ChatGPT + Copilot who did the rough work..

This is probably not a definitive solution, but maybe there's something we can learn about it, and can be implemented in a more definitive one.

ernzo
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For that, ultracopier wait and listen copy with catchcopy protocol, the version 0.3 will be better to intergrate into gnome. For that's, gnome (nautilus), need send copy to software compatible with catchcopy protocol (like ultracopier).

alpha_one_x86
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The solution of edward torvalds, don't work right now(the repo is disable).

I'm the author of this extensions and also who packs it on launchpad. So, please contact me if you have any problem. I appreciate a user feedback, to make the extensions better.

My first answer was delete by https://askubuntu.com/users/59676/mitch as a duplicate of this one(So find my posted in this location):

Is there any special software for copy,cut like operations?

If this continues happend i will to remove the extension for launchpad and package for other distros only...

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