There's a half a dozen others I use and that's what i'm concerned about, resize image, rotate image, edit file as root, open folder as root, set image as wallpaper, view exif data etc.

Basically i'm reproducing the functionality you can get in Caja file manager in MATE by installing the extras from the repo, I really missed that one-click convenience when I started using Openbox and PcmanFM.

I tried that desktop file and it does create the option to 'open terminal here' but it doesn't work. Message is "invalid desktop entry file". when I try to execute it.

pcmanfm should have a default "Open in Terminal" entry in the top part of a folder's context menu.
That should work - provided a correct x-terminal-emulator is set in pcmanfm's preferences --> advanced tab (or at least it does in my fluxuan daedalus setup)

I tried that desktop file and it does create the option to 'open terminal here' but it doesn't work. Message is "invalid desktop entry file". when I try to execute it.

Well that's progress at least, it's not even showing up for me. Wonder if there's some conflict since i'm also using MATE on that partition?

Sigh, lots of stuff to do, I really thought this was going to be easier than last time, lol. Right now Synaptic won't even open from the menu when i'm in the Openbox session.

Hurray pkexec, so glad they dumped gksu, because who would want a simple program that actually worked when you can have a mountain of crappy gnome policy s**t that doesn't work half the time on your machine?

Logged back in to user account and sure enough in the Templates folder there it was, krita appimage. And I was today years old when I learned you could put stuff in Templates and have it appear in context-menus, lol.

But I never put it there or downloaded any krita appimages, so i'm stumped how it got there.

Drop the below extension in /home/(user)/.local/file-manager/actions/  , then you have to close pcmanfm, then re-open, and see if you now have an option to open terminal there?

[Desktop Entry]
Type=Action
Name=Open Terminal Here
Comment=Open terminal in the current folder
Icon=lxterminal
Profiles=on_folder;

[X-Action-Profile on_folder]
Exec=lxterminal --working-directory=%f
MimeTypes=inode/directory;

This weird abomination now occurs across all file managers in this install, pcmanfm, pcmanfmqt, and also Caja when i'm running a MATE session.

I don't know when it happened, or whether it was in some update I did, or third party stuff I installed, or maybe one of the appimages i've been trying.

But it obviously stuck something in the system files somewhere that makes it occur in all file-managers. Kinda freaking me out.

Newer pcmanfm gtk version will still just not use right-click extensions, apparently this started happening off and on about 4-5 years ago, about the time they started working with the qt version. It's really aggravating me because in the qt version they seem to want to work at least, they show up in the context-menu at least when you right-click.

Seriously considering using an older version that actually works properly and just pinning it.

Everything was actually going along swimmingly and I was getting excited, but then two things, one annoying, one weird as can be. Both in Pcmanfm, current version in Daedalus repo 1.3.2

1. No user added right-click context menu options work at all, doesn't matter what you do. The ones that it came with all work though, then next one though doesn't seem OEM to Pcmanfm...

2. This is a doozy, like every file manager i've ever used, pcmanfm when you click on open space in a folder offers you the "create new" option which normally has two choices : create new folder or empty file..only here there's a third, it offers to create a new "krita-5.2.3-x8664" for ya.

Curiousity got the better of me, so I clicked it, and instantaneously it somehow created a 350 mb appimage of krita-5.2.3 for me, and I do mean instantly, like there were local files on it, but I can't find any.

Have searched through about half the pcmanfm source code on github, nothing yet, will finish searching and then try checking libfm source code later.

Does ANYONE have the slightest idea about this stuff? How in the world does something like this make it into the program and .deb package?

I have a slight suspicion the two problems might be related, but not sure yet.

Anybody got a clean install of pcmanfm 1.3.2 that doesn't do these things?

I had never even heard of krita prior to this, never downloaded it.