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Jim_Kring

[Linux] LabVIEW Project Environment missing "Explore..." option (to show the file in the OS's native file explorer)

Status: New

Right now, there's no way to easily open show a LabVIEW project file in the "native operating system file explorer" on Linux (for me on Ubuntu, that's the the Gnome "Files" Nautilus app and I can easily open a folder from a terminal/shell by executing an `open .` command).

 

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Side Note: In VS Code (as described in the documentation), you can open to the location of a file or folder in the native operating system file explorer by right-clicking on a file or folder and selecting Reveal in File Explorer on Windows, Reveal in Finder on macOS, or Open Containing Folder on Linux.

Let's please add this to LabVIEW for Linux! 🙂

2 Comments
Taggart
Trusted Enthusiast

I use this feature quite often on Windows.

Sam Taggart
CLA, CPI, CTD, LabVIEW Champion
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Jim_Kring
Trusted Enthusiast

To NI, this command seems to work for different desktop/file managers:

`dbus-send --session --print-reply --dest=org.freedesktop.FileManager1 --type=method_call /org/freedesktop/FileManager1 org.freedesktop.FileManager1.ShowItems array:string:"file:///home/my/path/to/folder/or/file" string:""`