the file manager

[Amarpreet Rattan]

by the way, I just looked at the faq and pressing ctrl while I right click
on the last file doesn't work.

amps

On Wed, 15 Oct 2003, Amarpreet Rattan wrote:

>
> hello all,
>
> Well, i have been using xfce for about a week and I think that it is
> great.  It seems like you get all the (useful) functionality of
> gnome/kde without it bogging the system down.  I was getting a little sick
> and tired of watching gnome2 by slower on my brand new machine than gnome1
> is on a 5 year old machine.
>
> Anyways, I have some questions/comments.  To me, it appears that the only
> drawback is xffm (the file manager).  I guess that i have built up some
> gui habits that don't seem to translate well in the file manager and I am
> having some difficulty customizing it.  If someone could help me with the
> following problems that would be great.
>
> 1)  if you shift and highlight more than 1 file and then want to
> move/copy/delete the file, right clicking on the file manager seems to
> mess up that selection (i.e. if you highlight files a,b,c,d and then right
> click to do something and you happen to be over file e, then a,b,c,d will
> no longer be highlighted and e will get highlighted).  I found that the
> way to operate on a group of highlighted files is to go to the toolbar and
> pick 'cut' or something, but that kind of sucks having to go to the
> toolbar.
>
> 2)  is there some way of setting mime-types in xffm?  i mean, when double
> click on a file, it just asks me if I want to use the program I last used
> on a file.  is there some way of telling xffm that if the file has a .jpg
> extension ALWAYS use imagemagik or something?
>
> thanks
>
> amps
>
>