How to create a new empty file / template file in Ubuntu 16.10 Desktop?

Recently, I freshly installed the Ubuntu 16.10 on my desktop and when I right click the desktop or inside a folder, I cannot find out an option for creating an empty file / my template files. There is only an option for creating new folder. What can I do?

3 Answers

You can go into your ~/Templates folder and create templates yourself, then they will appear in the right-click menu. For instance:

touch ~/Templates/Untitled.txt 

If you need some templates you can get some from this download (found it on ubuntuforums:

wget 

Contents:

 $ tree . ├── Fontforge Font.sfd ├── HyperText Markup Language.html ├── Images │   ├── Scalable Vector Graphic.svg │   └── Xara Xtreme Graphic.xar ├── Office │   ├── Abiword Document.awt │   ├── Microsoft Office │   │   ├── Excel Spreadsheet.xlt │   │   ├── Powerpoint Presentation.pot │   │   └── Word Document.doc │   └── OpenDocument │   ├── OpenDocument Database.odb │   ├── OpenDocument Document.ott │   ├── OpenDocument Drawing.otg │   ├── OpenDocument Formula.odf │   ├── OpenDocument Presentation.otp │   ├── OpenDocument Spreadsheet.ots │   └── Templates │   ├── Presentations │   │   ├── Chalkboard.otp │   │   ├── Compladients.otp │   │   ├── OOo Professional.otp │   │   └── Squares.otp │   └── Trifold brochure.ott ├── Rich Text Format.rtf ├── Scripts │   ├── Perl Script.pl │   ├── Python Script.py │   └── Shell Script.sh └── Text File.txt 

Image:

edit: for the directories to show up I needed to do a nautilus -q and open nautilus.

From Apache OpenOffice Templates. Several listed but picktemplates_111.otp is related to Ubuntu.

• Opens an apache openoffice template with an Ubuntu background:

  

... and another set from apache openoffice.

1. Using >file_name.file_extention

   >file_name.file_extention For ex. - >test.txt 

2. Using touch filename.fileextention

   touch file_name.file_extention For ex. - touch test.txt 

3. create any fileextention template in Home/Templates and you can access that template to create file. For ex. create test.txt file in Home/Templates folder. Now wherever you wants to create an .txt extention file you can simply create using

   right click-> New Document- -> test