the file manager

David O'Shaughnessy doshaugh at student.ecu.edu.au
Wed Oct 15 20:19:57 CEST 2003


About mime types, when you go to open something with a program click "Remember" and it will always use that program.

Dave.

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.
> >
> > 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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