How to get a "refresh" right click action?

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I'm new to Ubuntu 13.04. I want a 'refresh' option, like in Windows when you right click on desktop. Can anyone help me to get that option in Ubuntu?

score 12 · Answer 1 · edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

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When in any folder (this includes the desktop), hit the F5 key to refresh.

To also add the refresh option to the right-click menu, check this answer (thanks Saurav Kumar).

edited Apr 13 '17 at 12:23

Community

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answered Sep 10 '13 at 10:15

ergysdo

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score 6 · Answer 2 · edited Sep 10 '13 at 21:08

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This is not necessary because items added to the ~/Desktop folder are added to the desktop automatically. This is most likely a bad habit from Windows.

If you really need to, press F5.

edited Sep 10 '13 at 21:08

Jorge Castro

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answered Sep 10 '13 at 21:01

kiri

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score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Jun 05 '16 at 18:17

You can try to install the old nautilus python script for Ubuntu 12.04 (nautilus-refresh) from the dr3mro/nautilus-actions-extra PPA. (Dr. Amr Osman).

Open a Terminal window and type the following to install the necessary packages.
```
sudo apt-get install python-nautilus xautomation wget
```

Create a folder to download the deb package.

mkdir ~/Downloads/refresh
cd ~/Downloads/refresh

Download the nautilus-refresh_0.6~ppa1-0~11~precise1_all.deb package from Launchpad.

wget https://launchpad.net/~dr3mro/+archive/nautilus-actions-extra/+files/nautilus-refresh_0.6~ppa1-0~11~precise1_all.deb

If you are running Ubuntu 13.04 64-bit.. create the following soft link.
```
sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/libpython2.7.so.1.0 /usr/lib/libpython2.7.so.1.0
```
NOTE:: If you are running 32-bit you can skip the step 4.

Intall the deb package.

sudo dpkg -i nautilus-refresh_0.6~ppa1-0~11~precise1_all.deb

Finally you can logout and login to see the changes.

Result:

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How to get a "refresh" right click action?

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