PasthlY - A Python "Paste As Hard Link" Nautilus Extension

This project creates an Nautilus Extension to make avalible the possibility to instead of pasting a copy of files (<Control>V) in Nautilus (Gnome Files), create hard links to files (<Shift><Control>V) on the clipboard.

Dependencies

• Python 3: 3.11.3
• PyGObject: 3.24.38
• gobject-introspection: 3.44.1
• python3-nautilus: 1.2.3
• PyYAML: 6.0

Known Issues

• It (only) works with Nautilus 42 and python3-nautilus 1.2.3
  • GTK 3 (gi.required_version('Gtk', '3.0')) and Nautilus 3 (gi.required_version('Nautilus', '3.0'))
• It won't work on Nautilus 43.beta or later.

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Install

TMP_FILE=$(mktemp); curl 'https://raw.githubusercontent.com/theoamonteiro/pasthly/master/src/main/python/pasthly.py' 2> /dev/null > $TMP_FILE ; python $TMP_FILE --install ; rm -f $TMP_FILE

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Setup on a Conda Environment

conda env create --name $NEW_CONDA_ENV_NAME --file environment.yml
pip install -r dependencies.txt

python3-nautilus

Since there is not a conda package, nor a pip package, it is necessary a little hack to get things runing:

1. Install python3-nautilus package
2. Create the links for files and folders

# CONDA_ENV_PATH=/var/opt/anaconda/$USER/envs/nautilus

sudo apt install -y python3-nautilus
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/nautilus $CONDA_ENV_PATH/lib/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/pkgconfig/nautilus-python.pc $CONDA_ENV_PATH/lib/pkgconfig/
ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/girepository-1.0/Nautilus-3.0.typelib $CONDA_ENV_PATH/lib/girepository-1.0/

CONDA_ENV_PATH is the location for the Anaconda enviroment, the commented definition is just an example.