the file manager

[edscott wilson garcia]

On Wed, 2003-10-15 at 11:23, 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.

You have to hold the button down (don't release it) after your last
selection click, and start the drag process immediately. That's the way
the gtk treeview works and needs to be hacked to behave better (see
gtk-list archives). Please note that there are reports that the default
ctrl-click action has changed on gtk-2.2.4 (I have not yet verified
this).

> 
> 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?

Click on the "remember" checkbox before launching it.

regards,

Edscott
> 
> thanks
> 
> amps
> 
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