Re: [gentoo-amd64] How do I choose a second window manager?

[Mark Knecht]

On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 2:32 PM, Paul
Hartman<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 4:24 PM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 1:50 PM, Paul
>> Hartman<paul.hartman+gentoo@×××××.com> wrote:
>>> On Thu, Jun 18, 2009 at 3:43 PM, Mark Knecht<markknecht@×××××.com> wrote:
>>>>   I found that here drag and drop works in a folder but doesn't work
>>>> on the desktop.
>>>
>>> When you say you are trying to move them, are you trying to "mv" them,
>>> or just reposition them within the same desktop workspace? (moving the
>>> icon over to the other side of the desktop for example)
>>>
>>> If the latter, then yes, it only moves 1 at a time for me as well. I
>>> thought (assumed) you were talking about moving from one directory to
>>> another.
>>>
>>>
>>
>> No, I mean drag and drop on the desktop using the mouse, not something
>> like a 'mv' command. OK, so we're getting the same results.
>
> Okay, you are moving icons around on the desktop but not actually
> moving files to different directories. That's where I was getting
> confused. :)

No, I'm moving files on the desktop. Desktop is a directory and the
files are visible in a terminal if I cd to Desktop. I can create a
folder and 'mv' the files to that folder and 'mv' them back to the
desktop. However, if I select multiple files on the desktop with my
mouse I see all of them selected but only the firs one moves to the
folder with a drag operation.

>
> XFCE didn't even have the concept of "a desktop" with icons until the
> latest release, IIRC... its lack of a desktop was always one of its
> somewhat unique characteristics, but with the latest release it's
> become more of a full-featured desktop environment. So that aspect of
> it is probably not very mature yet. I would expect the finer touches
> such as moving multiple icons to come along in future versions.

OK, that makes sense. They'll get to it if it's important.

This issue seems to come up occasionally. I'll download some zip file
to my desktop and use an archive manager to drag a bunch of stuff out.
Having done that I might delete some audio files but want to keep
others, or I might want to separate them into different folders based
on what I'm going to do with them.

Anyway, we've wasted too much effort on this. It's just a minor annoyance.

Thanks,
Mark