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Here are some small Python scripts I have written over time. Usually they are tested on a recent version of Ubuntu Linux

This scripts are distributed in the hope that they will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. You are free to do with them what ever you want.

nautilus-print

A very simple extension for Nautilus, the standard file manager for the GNOME desktop, to print files from the context menu.

It’s not very sophisticated and doesn’t give any error messages if something goes wrong. It doesn’t do any file type conversion but relies on what your print system can do - so don’t expect too much.

Requirements

nautilus-print needs:

  • libautilus-extension Python bindings

    Tested with version 0.6.1 as distributed with Ubuntu 10.04 “Lucid Lynx”.

    For Ubuntu that’s the package python-nautilus

  • GtkLP

    Tested with version 1.2.7 as distributed with Ubuntu 10.04 “Lucid Lynx”.

    For Ubuntu that’s the package gtklp

Download

nautilus-print.py

Last modified:

2010-06-15 05:10:00

Size:

1,3K

MD5:

4c0612900d5511bc291d9175c6457e22

SHA256:

7738ba3236da1799d7db25372f0a7af7105599bcfb672a808fea193d6c41ff93

GPG signature:

nautilus-print.py.gpg

Installation

Save the file as $HOME/.nautilus/python-extensions/nautilus-print.py and restart Nautilus (e.g. log out and log in or run nautilus --quit from the command line).

Usage

Right click on a local file in Nautilus. You should see a menu that somewhere has a Print item. Click on that to start GtkLP with the selected file(s).

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addtorecent

A simple script to put documents on GNOME’s recently used document list

Requirements

addtorecent needs:

Download

addtorecent

Last modified:

2010-07-20 19:27:00

Size:

1,3K

MD5:

5030061ee42bf4006ef0e34d829a206a

SHA256:

f92f77c2af403ef8cfd525a5137575584c87e928a7c0fb3afdfdb99b0c4abe82

GPG signature:

addtorecent.gpg

Usage

addtorecent URI [MIME-type] [app] [cmd]

  • URL is the path or URI of the document

  • MIME-type is its MIME-type and defaults to text/plain

  • app is a name of an application you want to associate with this document

    and defaults to xdg-open

  • cmd is the command line to start app

    and defaults to xdg-open %F

With Emacs

See here for how to use this with Emacs

ppa-info

Get owner, URL and description for a given PPA

Requirements

ppa-info needs:

Download

ppa-info.py

Last modified:

2015-10-02 04:58:00

Size:

1,8K

MD5:

77234f75c5e7de3b28d3f106ae844bdb

SHA256:

a5dc1741a6a292766cf1d42f41fd97968ab5ccd79c7090b998224c4c7c8713b2

GPG signature:

ppa-info.py.gpg

Usage

ppa-info.py PPA

  • PPA is a PPA name, like ppa:diesch/testing or just diesch/testing