Linux no templates installed

~/Templates directory missing from Ubuntu 18.04 GNOME Nautilus

I am trying to add the option on right click to «Add New Document» in Ubuntu 18.04 with GNOME desktop (VM). All of the documentation and online help tells me to create an empty .txt (or any other extention) file and place it in ~/Templates directory. That directory for some reason does not exist by defalut on my installation. No idea why. I tried adding it and then placing the empty file there but the right click menu doesn’t change. Does anyone know why I didn’t have this Templates directory by default and how I can successfully add the «Add New Document» option to my right click menu?? Thanks! I used this commmand first: $ touch ~/Templates/Empty\ Document result: touch: cannot touch ‘/home/a7ger/Templates/Empty Document’: No such file or directory I then did the following: $ mkdir ~/Templates $ touch ~/Templates/Empty\ Document This ran successfully as expected. But when I right click on dekstop or in a folder within Nautilus I still do not see the option to «Add New Document». Help!! click link to see screenshot of right click menu after running commands.

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I just found my new document missing, also the template didn’t exist and the template directory wasnt set.

So, to the terminal as my user user:

mkdir -p ~/Templates && touch ~/Templates/Untitled\ Document; xdg-user-dirs-update --set TEMPLATES ~/Templates; nautilus -q && nautilus & 

And the same as a one-liner:

mkdir -p ~/Templates && touch ~/Templates/Untitled\ Document && xdg-user-dirs-update --set TEMPLATES ~/Templates && nautilus -q && nautilus & 

Note: restarting Nautilus is required so that the changes take effect for the current session, you could just reboot if you prefer.

I recently had to come back to this after a long while on ubuntu 20.04 I realised it had returned, but since I wrote this I have since found out a little tip I thought might be useful here.

When creating new files if you press F2 when clicking the new document option in the context menu, the rename prompt will open saving you from renaming the file after its been created.

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Thread: no templates installed, Wrong file Path ?

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no templates installed, Wrong file Path ?

Right Click, Create Document, no templates installed

some background:
Searched for «Templates» folder, couldn’t find it

so I made a «Templates» folder in:
/home/myname/afolder/a Folder With Space Number & Caps in Name/Templates

and put some files in it e.g: «OpenOffice.stw»

then I went to:
/home/myname/.config/user-dirs.dirs
and made «user-dirs.dirs» point to the right place in this way:

Before:
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR=»$HOME/»

After:
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR=»$HOME/myname/afolder/a Folder With Space Number & Caps in Name/Templates»

also looked at:
OpenOffice.odt,Tools,Options,openoffice.org,Paths, Templates,edit,add

still Nothing / no templates installed

thinking that maybe it wouldn’t let put them where I want
(file name e.g: «/folder/My 4 Stuff/Templates») ?

I tried to do the same with: «/home/myname/Templates»
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR=»$HOME/myname/Templates»

still Nothing / no templates installed

my «/home/» only has «/home/myname/»
thats it no hidden, and cant make a new folder there

Thanks for looking this over
not sure what is the next step
Thanks
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Thread: How to install templates in ubuntu 12.04

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How to install templates in ubuntu 12.04

I have Ubuntu 12.04 , and it have a option called templates, but it is showing that no templates installed , so how to install templates?

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Re: How to install templates in ubuntu 12.04

Originally Posted by tushar maroo

I have Ubuntu 12.04 , and it have a option called templates, but it is showing that no templates installed , so how to install templates?

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Re: How to install templates in ubuntu 12.04

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Re: How to install templates in ubuntu 12.04

Templates are nothing more than boilerplate files you put in the ~/Templates folder. Quite useful whenever you find yourself in a situation where — for example — you regularly create documents that must contain a common formatting (page setup, font, etc.). Or if you write shell scripts (see this example) and you want every script to contain standard documentation that you’d rather not retype over and over again, then you can put one in your ~/Templates folder.

The next time you do File > Create New Document. your boilerplate template file will be listed. Select it, rename the file and open.

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Re: How to install templates in ubuntu 12.04

Originally Posted by Pinoy Tux

Templates are nothing more than boilerplate files you put in the ~/Templates folder. Quite useful whenever you find yourself in a situation where — for example — you regularly create documents that must contain a common formatting (page setup, font, etc.). Or if you write shell scripts (see this example) and you want every script to contain standard documentation that you’d rather not retype over and over again, then you can put one in your ~/Templates folder.

The next time you do File > Create New Document. your boilerplate template file will be listed. Select it, rename the file and open.

yeah Pinoy Tux, This thing really helped i put three of file formats empty files in my Templates folder and it automatically appears as a new document in the option menu.
and also it renames the file, so you do not need to rename it every time.

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Thread: [SOLVED] No template installed; what does this mean?

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[SOLVED] No template installed; what does this mean?

Hi,
Just out of curiosity. when I Right click on desktop -> create document it says «No template installed.» What does this mean and can i get it so i can create open office douments and stuff like that

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Re: «Right click > create document > no template installed» what does this mean?

Add any files you want to use as Templates in your ~/Templates folder. They will then appear in that menu. So you can add blank OO documents etc.. in there.

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This doesn’t work for me. I’ve inserted the files in /home/myname/Templates and still the same message «no templates installed». What could be the problem? I have Hardy 64bit.

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Re: [SOLVED] No template installed; what does this mean?

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Re: [SOLVED] No template installed; what does this mean?

Originally Posted by ene_dene

http://sudan.ubuntuforums.com/showthread.php?t=6182
The last post gives the solution. The problem was in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs file.

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