Thunar Questions

David Mohr squisher at xfce.org
Wed Apr 28 22:22:26 CEST 2010


On Tue, Apr 27, 2010 at 10:35 AM, Rich Shepard <rshepard at appl-ecosys.com> wrote:
> On Tue, 27 Apr 2010, Sadique Ali K M wrote:
>
>> I am using Thunar on my xubuntu- 9.10. I am able to move files/folders and
>> delete them by right clicking and selecting cut/delete.
>> May be some config is wrong?
>
>  Ah, yes! The 'cut' command is equivalent to 'delete'. I'll point that out
> to her; forgot about it.
>
>  When trying to move files we cannot specify a different directory. Where
> do I look to see what might be restricting this?

'Cut' is one part of a 'move', where 'paste' is the other one (which
selects the destination directory.

'Delete' is completely separate from move / cut-paste . It should be
available in the context menu, or by pressing the delete button
though.

~David



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