the file manager

[brett holcomb]

Glad to see it wasn't just me <G>!  The file manager in 
xfce 4 made some major changes that break the way I work 
(and I believe many others) so I'm having to relearn - 
although I'd like the old way back.  Not only does 
move/copy multiple files not work I don't like the right 
click menu layout.  Many of the most commonly used 
functions (open, etc.) are on a submenu of the right click 
menu which is not a real good layout.  However, much of 
xfce4 is an improvement and I still like xfce4 better than 
some other window managers.


On Wed, 15 Oct 2003 12:56:22 -0400 (EDT)
  Amarpreet Rattan <arattan at math.uwaterloo.ca> wrote:
>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.
>>