Desktop questions

[Brian J. Tarricone]

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Markus Hoenicka wrote:

> 1) Thunar allows me to activate (i.e. open or run) items with a single click.
> However, this setting apparently has no effect for the icons on the desktop,
> although they are handled by Thunar according to the docs.

That's not correct.  Where do the docs say this?

> I'd soo like to
> avoid doubleclicking. Is there any hidden config option to achieve this?

Nope.

> 2) I'd like to have the option to create links to items on my desktop instead of
> copies. Thunar does have that "Send to..." entry in the context menu, but first,
> this is not very intuitive compared to drag and drop, and second, I still
> couldn't kick the habit of using rox as a file manager. Is there some hidden
> trick to create links from the desktop by drag and drop?

Same as in Thunar: hold down ctrl+shift while dragging.

	-brian

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