When I read the questions on using Create documents when you right click I started playing with it on my system. No matter what I did it didn't work. Than I found a solution on line. I had to edit

~/.config/user-dirs.dirs

Once I fixed the line

XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/"
with
XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"

The create document feature worked great.
Maybe this will solve your problem. It is a rather nice feature, once I figured out how to make it work.
Linda


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2012/5/14 Lucio M Nicolosi <lmnicolosi@gmail.com>:
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Johnny Rosenberg
> <gurus.knugum@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Okay, I guess I asked the wrong question, so I will try to rephrase it:
>> The �Create document� option in the right click menu, mentioned in my
>> first post in this thread, is usually empty except for �Empty file�.
>> How do I populate it with other kinds of documents?
>> I know lots of ways to create new documents, my question was only
>> about the right click menu.
>
> The answer is probably here:
>
> http://linux.about.com/library/gnome/blgnome6n6h.htm

Doesn't seem to work, but I can see two things that might need to be done:
Restart the computer (or maybe just log out and then log in again), perhaps?
Maybe the folder �~/Templates� should be translated to Swedish in my
case, just like "~/Desktop� is called �~/Skrivbord� and so on?
I'll fiddle some more with it after I restarted, that is after work tomorrow.


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Am 14.05.2012 21:39, schrieb Johnny Rosenberg:
> 2012/5/14 Lucio M Nicolosi <lmnicolosi@gmail.com>:
>> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Johnny Rosenberg
>> <gurus.knugum@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Okay, I guess I asked the wrong question, so I will try to rephrase it:
>>> The �Create document� option in the right click menu, mentioned in my
>>> first post in this thread, is usually empty except for �Empty file�.
>>> How do I populate it with other kinds of documents?
>>> I know lots of ways to create new documents, my question was only
>>> about the right click menu.
>>
>> The answer is probably here:
>>
>> http://linux.about.com/library/gnome/blgnome6n6h.htm
>
> Doesn't seem to work, but I can see two things that might need to be done:
> Restart the computer (or maybe just log out and then log in again), perhaps?
> Maybe the folder �~/Templates� should be translated to Swedish in my
> case, just like "~/Desktop� is called �~/Skrivbord� and so on?
> I'll fiddle some more with it after I restarted, that is after work tomorrow.
>
>
> Kind regards
>
> Johnny Rosenberg
> ジョニー・ãƒ*ーゼンãƒ�ーグ
>

Hi Johnny,

in my german ubuntu 12.04 there was a folder called "Vorlagen"
(Templates) by default. Maybe there is already a folder which is empty?
I created a file called writer.odt there and was able to create a new
file using the right-click-menu.

Regards

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2012/5/14 Christian Benz <christian@c-benz.de>:
> Am 14.05.2012 21:39, schrieb Johnny Rosenberg:
>> 2012/5/14 Lucio M Nicolosi <lmnicolosi@gmail.com>:
>>> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Johnny Rosenberg
>>> <gurus.knugum@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Okay, I guess I asked the wrong question, so I will try to rephrase it:
>>>> The �Create document� option in the right click menu, mentioned in my
>>>> first post in this thread, is usually empty except for �Empty file�.
>>>> How do I populate it with other kinds of documents?
>>>> I know lots of ways to create new documents, my question was only
>>>> about the right click menu.
>>>
>>> The answer is probably here:
>>>
>>> http://linux.about.com/library/gnome/blgnome6n6h.htm
>>
>> Doesn't seem to work, but I can see two things that might need to be done:
>> Restart the computer (or maybe just log out and then log in again), perhaps?
>> Maybe the folder �~/Templates� should be translated to Swedish in my
>> case, just like "~/Desktop� is called �~/Skrivbord� and so on?
>> I'll fiddle some more with it after I restarted, that is after work tomorrow.
>>
>>
>> Kind regards
>>
>> Johnny Rosenberg
>> ジョニー・ãƒ*ーゼンãƒ�ーグ
>>
>
> Hi Johnny,
>
> in my german ubuntu 12.04 there was a folder called "Vorlagen"
> (Templates) by default. Maybe there is already a folder which is empty?
> I created a file called writer.odt there and was able to create a new
> file using the right-click-menu.
>
> Regards
>
> Christian
>

Yes, there is actually a Templates folder in Swedish (�Mallar�), I
just didn't see it before. But after moving my files there, there were
still no difference. Only �Tom fil� (�Empty file�) is available.


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On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 4:49 PM, Christian Benz <christian@c-benz.de> wrote:
> Am 14.05.2012 21:39, schrieb Johnny Rosenberg:
>>
>> Doesn't seem to work, but I can see two things that might need to be done:
>> Restart the computer (or maybe just log out and then log in again), perhaps?
>> Maybe the folder �~/Templates� should be translated to Swedish in my
>> case, just like "~/Desktop� is called �~/Skrivbord� and so on?
>> I'll fiddle some more with it after I restarted, that is after work tomorrow.

You know better:

http://en.bab.la/dictionary/english-swedish/template

L.

>
> in my german ubuntu 12.04 there was a folder called "Vorlagen"
> (Templates) by default. Maybe there is already a folder which is empty?
> I created a file called writer.odt there and was able to create a new
> file using the right-click-menu.
>
> Regards
>
> Christian


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2012/5/14 Johnny Rosenberg <gurus.knugum@gmail.com>:
> 2012/5/14 Christian Benz <christian@c-benz.de>:
>> Am 14.05.2012 21:39, schrieb Johnny Rosenberg:
>>> 2012/5/14 Lucio M Nicolosi <lmnicolosi@gmail.com>:
>>>> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Johnny Rosenberg
>>>> <gurus.knugum@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>> Okay, I guess I asked the wrong question, so I will try to rephrase it:
>>>>> The �Create document� option in the right click menu, mentioned in my
>>>>> first post in this thread, is usually empty except for �Empty file�.
>>>>> How do I populate it with other kinds of documents?
>>>>> I know lots of ways to create new documents, my question was only
>>>>> about the right click menu.
>>>>
>>>> The answer is probably here:
>>>>
>>>> http://linux.about.com/library/gnome/blgnome6n6h.htm
>>>
>>> Doesn't seem to work, but I can see two things that might need to be done:
>>> Restart the computer (or maybe just log out and then log in again), perhaps?
>>> Maybe the folder �~/Templates� should be translated to Swedish in my
>>> case, just like "~/Desktop� is called �~/Skrivbord� and so on?
>>> I'll fiddle some more with it after I restarted, that is after work tomorrow.
>>>
>>>
>>> Kind regards
>>>
>>> Johnny Rosenberg
>>> ジョニー・ãƒ*ーゼンãƒ�ーグ
>>>
>>
>> Hi Johnny,
>>
>> in my german ubuntu 12.04 there was a folder called "Vorlagen"
>> (Templates) by default. Maybe there is already a folder which is empty?
>> I created a file called writer.odt there and was able to create a new
>> file using the right-click-menu.
>>
>> Regards
>>
>> Christian
>>
>
> Yes, there is actually a Templates folder in Swedish (�Mallar�), I
> just didn't see it before. But after moving my files there, there were
> still no difference. Only �Tom fil� (�Empty file�) is available.

One day later, computer restarted at least twice since last time,
still nothing else in the �Create document� list than �Empty file�.

Files in my folder ~/Mallar (the Swedish templates folder which was
created by the system, not by me) are:
Bash-skript.sh (a text file with the bash header included from start)
Kalkylark.ods (an empty ODF spreadsheet)
Textdokument.odt (an empty ODF text document)

And I think I didn't mention my operating system: Ubuntu 10.10 (I know
it's no longer supported, and I will upgrade eventually, but it seems
like I never have time for that…)


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On 05/14/2012 12:08 PM, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Johnny Rosenberg
> <gurus.knugum@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Okay, I guess I asked the wrong question, so I will try to rephrase it:
>> The �Create document� option in the right click menu, mentioned in my
>> first post in this thread, is usually empty except for �Empty file�.
>> How do I populate it with other kinds of documents?
>> I know lots of ways to create new documents, my question was only
>> about the right click menu.
>
> The answer is probably here:
>
> http://linux.about.com/library/gnome/blgnome6n6h.htm
>
> L.

And here:
<https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+question/184379>
[Right click on desktop and choosing new document doesn't show any
templates by defaults]



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2012/5/15 NoOp <glgxg@sbcglobal.net>:
> On 05/14/2012 12:08 PM, Lucio M Nicolosi wrote:
>> On Mon, May 14, 2012 at 3:52 PM, Johnny Rosenberg
>> <gurus.knugum@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Okay, I guess I asked the wrong question, so I will try to rephrase it:
>>> The �Create document� option in the right click menu, mentioned in my
>>> first post in this thread, is usually empty except for �Empty file�.
>>> How do I populate it with other kinds of documents?
>>> I know lots of ways to create new documents, my question was only
>>> about the right click menu.
>>
>> The answer is probably here:
>>
>> http://linux.about.com/library/gnome/blgnome6n6h.htm
>>
>> L.
>
> And here:
> <https://answers.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/nautilus/+question/184379>
> [Right click on desktop and choosing new document doesn't show any
> templates by defaults]

Thanks, I found the problem in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs. After
changing the line �XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/"� to
�XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Mallar/"�, it works perfectly.


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2012/5/18 Linda <haniganwork@earthlink.net>:
> When I read the questions on using Create documents when you right click I started playing with it on my system. No matter what I did it didn't work. Than I found a solution on line. I had to edit
>
> ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
>
> Once I fixed the line
>
> XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/"
> with
> XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Templates"
>
> The create document feature worked great.
> Maybe this will solve your problem. It is a rather nice feature, once I figured out how to make it work.
> Â* Â* Â* Linda

Well, my problem is already solved, so I guess somehow you missed that
post of mine. Maybe it went straight into your spam box or something?
Here it is again:
�Thanks, I found the problem in ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs. After
changing the line �XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/"� to
�XDG_TEMPLATES_DIR="$HOME/Mallar/"�, it works perfectly.�

So it's the same solution as the one you describe, just that I use the
Swedish word �Mallar� which means �Templates�.
Thanks anyway.

Just as an addition to the post above, I also changed other things,
like �XDF_DOCUMENTS_DIR� from �$HOME/� to �$HOME/Dokument�, and after
that LibreOffice won't run my macros! I found the reason for that: My
macros are only run if they are in a folder that's in the approved
folders list, and all paths there were changed from, for example,
�~/This/Path� to �~/DokumentThis/Path�. I would consider that a bug,
but maybe others would disagree… Anyway, after editing all those paths
everything was fine again.


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Johnny Rosenberg
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