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Title: Sending pictures from Shotwell by email
Post by: Richard B on January 18, 2017, 03:35:34 PM

I have just started using Shotwell for image management and basic editing and like it. However, I found that trying to send pictures by email (single or selected, edited or original) directly from it failed. Google took me to ubuntuforums.org message 2058352 where Edward Comer says that
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[/size]Shotwell depends on nautilus-sendto (in an executable path) to function, which is missing in a pure XFCE installation.
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[/size]Edward offers a script to re-direct the action but I had problems with file permissions and tried using a simlink instead, thus:
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cd /usr/local/bin

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sudo ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/Thunar/thunar-sendto-email nautilus-sendto

[/size]This works. The destination of the symlink was found from /usr/share/Thunar/sendto/thunar-sendto-email.desktop and will be different for 32bit Linux. I used a symlink (-s option) rather than a hard link to reduce the possibility of problems with software upgrades.
[/size]The symlink diverts anything intended for nautilus-sendto to thunar-sendto-email
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[/size]Apologies for the /size insertions which I don't seem able to disable.
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