the file manager

[Jack Coates]

my advice is to use a different file manager; xffm doesn't fit my style
either, but it's easily replaced. Rox is really nice and is my favorite
-- I use konqueror from time to time as well. xwc is good too -- though
very MS-windows like.

On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 09:23, 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
> 
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Jack Coates
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