<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>Try right click on a file or a group of files - open with - others - type in "terminal - e /path/to/your/script.sh %U"</div><div><br></div><div>you might want to replace "terminal" with the name of the terminal emulator you use but I think it is called "terminal" in xubuntu.</div><div><br></div><div>I also add '--no-close' option to review the output printed in the terminal before closing it.</div><div>I am not sure if such option exists in xubuntu terminal but you can try.</div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757" dir="auto">Sent from my Samsung Galaxy smartphone.</div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Chris Green <cl@isbd.net> </div><div>Date: 2018-09-14 1:33 PM (GMT-07:00) </div><div>To: digikam-users@kde.org </div><div>Subject: Re: [digiKam-users] Is there a way to run an external program/script on selected images? </div><div><br></div></div>Peter Albrecht <peter@crazymonkeys.de> wrote:<br>> Hello Chris,<br>> <br>> if you are on KDE, you can create a (python) script and register this in your<br>> desktop environment for the mime type JPG. In digikam select some images and<br>> click "open with" > "your script" from the context menu.<br>> This will start your script and pass the paths of all your selected images to<br>> your script as parameters. I use this very often in my digikam workflow.<br>> <br>I'm not KDE (one of the disadvantages of Digikam for me, it pulls in<br>quite a lot of KDE stuff still) but I would think I could do something<br>like the above on xubuntu by setting the mime type as you say for JPG.<br><br>I'll try it, thanks.<br><br>-- <br>Chris Green<br>ยท<br><br></body></html>