I want to use a nautilus script to open a (gnome-) terminal with a tmux session (or start one) at a specific location and then execute some commands in this terminal (e.g. nvim $file).
I've encountered 2 problems however:
1: I have "Run a custom command instead of my shell" at "tmux", such that every terminal starts in a tmux session. This seems to negate the ability to open the terminal at a given location. What I tried is putting an executable test.sh file in ~/.local/share/nautilus/scripts/ with content:
#!/bin/bash
gnome-terminal --working-directory=$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_CURRENT_URI
this works on a blank profile. With "tmux" as startup command however I just get a blank terminal at ~
2: If I try to use any command after that, nothing happens.
nvim some_file_there
does nothing, just as echo "hi" and exec echo 'hi'
Could someone explain the behaviour to me?
Meanwhile I've deactivated the "Run a custom command" setting in terminal. However, still I can only change the working directory (open terminal here), but cannot issue any further commands.
My newest test script containing only:
#!/bin/bash
zenity --info --text="$NAUTILUS_SCRIPT_SELECTED_FILE_PATHS"
gnome-terminal -e "ls"
Does somehow change the working directory to the one, that the nautilus script is started from! Also it shows the results of the ls command, but in the terminal a dialog band is dropped down in blue saying: "The child process exited normally with status 0." And a Relaunch button to the right.
- I guess this means, that a new session or terminal or so is started (the child), but it doesn't continue, such that I could eventually use it!?
Can someone maybe clarify what happens here?