Fix Missing Create New Document at Right Click in Nautilus Files in Fedora 23

Fedora 23 comes with Nautilus File Manager. You might have noticed that in the file manager, when you go to a location and right click with mouse, the option for “New Folder” is present, but the option for “New Document” is missing.

To create a new file, there is always command-line option like touch, vi, and so on, but what if you want to create a new empty file in right-click of mouse, and do not want to go to the terminal each time.

Solution:
Open the terminal, run the following commands:

cd ~/Templates/
touch ‘New Text File.txt’ && touch ‘New Word File.doc’ && touch ‘New Excel File.xls’

The above command will create 3 files, a txt file, a doc file and an xls file in the Templates folder within the HOME folder. Also if you open the Templates folder in the file manager, you will notice a message at the top:

Files in this folder will appear in the New Document menu.

Now if you go to any folder in the file manager, you will find a “New Document” menu, within which you will find the option to create an empty file as present in the Templates folder. Done !!!