Questions about selecting file and holding down the mouse button, dragging it to another part of the screen, then letting go of the button (dropping it).
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How to have root access without logging as root? [duplicate]
I am using 13.04 trying to edit or drag and drop files but since all the folders are owned by root and assigned to the group "root" I am not allow to do this.
I added my current username to the ...
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Just installed ubuntu 12.04. Mouse drag and drop not fully functional. Any known bugs?
If I drag and drop sometimes doesnt work (especially when I move the mouse fast). The thing I'm dragging just stops if I move the mouse fast.
In win7 is fine, so no hardware issues.
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Touchpad double-tap holding is not working
I used to be able to double-tap and hold on my touchpad to drag and drop things. Since I upgraded to oneric ocelot it only works 10% of the time. What program are they using to log the touchpad and ...
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Is it possible to change KDE Dolphin's drag-and-drop behaviour to move?
When you drag a file somewhere in KDE, it pops up a little context menu, asking what you want to do with it. This is similar to Gnome's dnd behaviour if you hold Alt.
It's not for me. I'd rather ...
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How to drag multiple icons in gtk.IconView?
There is:
gtk.IconView.set_selection_mode(gtk.SELECTION_MULTIPLE)
as well as:
gtk.IconView.set_reorderable(True)
yet while it's possible to select multiple icons, it does not seem to be possible ...
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How do I reorder buttons in the window-list (taskbar) via drag and drop?
I switched from GNOME2 to XFCE and miss the feature to re-arrange the window buttons in the taskbar (window list).
How can I make it working?
I use Xubuntu 12.10.
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Unity intercepts drag and drop file uploads to webpages
Just asking if someone out there has seen the same quirk:
If I want to drag a file to a dropzone in a website (say gmail's compose interface) Unity brings up the window picker bar (Launcher) and I ...
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Disable touch drag
I am using touchpad on my laptop, but sometimes when I move pointer around it starts dragging (touch drag). I prefer to drag while holding it down.
Can this touch drag be disabled?
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12.10 Drag and Drop not working
That's just it. I click on a file on the desktop with my mouse, drag it to another location on the desktop, or to an open folder, and....it zooms right back into the original position when I let go of ...
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Dropping Mouse Events and Unintentional Drag and Drop
I'm running Ubuntu 12.04 LTS on an Intel I7 system with 9GB RAM and two monitors and I'm using a Logitech wireless mouse (don't have any further information about model). I have all of the latest ...
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How can I drag and drop files into the Ubuntu One bookmark in Nautilus?
I have a bookmark to my Ubuntu-One folder in the sidebar of Nautilus, it would seem logical that it would be possible to drag and drop files and folders on top of this bookmark and have the dropped ...
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Stopping the Launcher from appearing while dragging
When dragging and dropping anything, the Launcher will automatically appear. I'd prefer it to only appear if I pressed Super while dragging, or something similar.
This question was asked in 2011, ...
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How can I drag & Drop a JPG-File into Scribus?
If I try to drag&drop a JPG (or other Graphic file) from Nautilus via the Unity Dash into Scribus, the Dash symbol’s are "grayed" and only some App's are usable but not Scribus.
How can I make ...
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Settings for drag and drop on desktop
When I drag and drop a file on the desktop into a folder, it does not move the file. Instead, it copies the file. Where do I change that behavior so that I do not have to hold the SHIFT button in ...
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Click and drag/multi-touch not working 12.04
I just installed 12.04 on my new laptop, Asus K55a, and the click and drag is not really working. It will let me double tap and drag, but I can not use the trackpad to click and then drag it around. ...
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issues clicking and dragging icons and windows
I've been having an issue with clicking and dragging icons and windows on my desktop. What ends up happening is I will click and hold on an icon and begin to drag it. The icon does not move. I let ...
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Adjusting touchpad drag threshold?
I find my self constantly dragging text, links, icons, and other things a few pixels by accident. Can I somehow increase the drag threshold? I thought at first it was because I use a trackpad, but I ...
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LibreOffice - Can't drag and replace images [LibreOffice 3.5 and 3.6, Ubuntu 12.04]
My wife uses LibreOffice to create catalogues of a couple hundred items and then converts it to PDF. Man we love LibreOffice! Anyway I set up Windows-7 and Mint-14-Mate dual boot for her to ease ...
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Drag and Drop files from browser to LibreOffice Writer not working
I tried to drag and drop an image on unity bar hoping that it will bring LibreOffice Writer in focus but it didn't not.
So now i have to goto insert ---> pictures
How to solve this issue.
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Can't hold left button on touchpad and drag in 12.04 and no right click
After updating to 12.04, I cannot use the mouse buttons. I have a work around to be able to drag with the touchpad alone, also to use the touchpad for right click. I would however like to use the ...
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Drag and Drop across (fullscreen) applications, switching via Alt-Tab
Example
Drag media file onto Totem's playlist to enqueue
Bug in Compiz
Especially for Unity (formerly Netbook Edition, being intended for small screens) this is quite a vital feature, as ...
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No widget drag/drop in Qt Creator after Blender-startup
My problem is that every time I start Blender 2.63 in 12.04 (64-bit), I am not able to drag and drop widgets in Qt Creator anymore, even after closing Blender again.
I have tried restarting Qt, ...
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Is there a way for drag and drop text to replace (rather than append to) target text? [closed]
In 11.04 using gnome 2.32.1.
If I have (as I frequently seem to) a list of bits of text I want to search for in a search box, it's convenient to drag each search term over to the search box and drop ...
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unity drag & drop files to another window
For example: i have 2 nautilus windows opened and maximized and i want to move a file from window A to window B.
If i drag the file on the unity launcher it doesn't move the file but it will open the ...
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How can I drag file from Nautilus to Brasero?
I want to drag a file from Nautilus to Brasero in Ubuntu 12.04 when both windows are open.
The only way to do it that I know currently is to maximize Brasero and left the Nautilus open (but not ...
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How to drag from a background window to the front window
Is the following I will explain possible with a key combination?
Here is the image:
As you can see, the terminal is the focus window (Front window) and Nautilus is in the background (Back Window). ...
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Is there any way to stop Unity from lagging when I drag and drop URL's when using Firefox? [closed]
When using Firefox I often drag URLS's either to the address bar or search boxes. When I drag URL's the Unity launcher will appear and show which programs the URL can be dragged to. However this ...
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Launcher doesn't appear when dragging and dropping [closed]
I like dragging and dropping media files into players like totem. In Ubuntu 11.10, I am not able to do it. When I click on a media file and drag it towards the panel at the left, my applications panel ...
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How to enable dropping any file type on particular or any Unity launcher item?
For example I cannot drag and drop folders and .py files to the meld using launcher but it accepts them perfectly.
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Dragging and dropping a file on launcher icon does not raise the window in Unity
I know this is a possible duplicate but I do have not a convincing answer yet.
I initially did not like unity and did not switch to it till 12.04 (used gnome fallback). I have started using it only ...
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Cannot move/drag/drop windows/items in remote VNC session [closed]
I find it a little hard to believe that no one here has asked this question, I tried searching for it but it isn't asked, so here goes:
I setup a Ubuntu desktop computer with VNC to use as a server. ...
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Unity + Firefox weird Unicode address glitch?
I noticed a weird glitch with dragging files from Unity onto Firefox. After dropping an element from Unity, Firefox attempts to load an address like this one:
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Drag and drop issue using Tomboy
I'm on Ubuntu 12.04 and I use Tomboy to keep notes organized. I'd really like if it'd be possible to drag and drop a note from Tomboy to Ubuntu desktop, but for some reason it's not possible. I get ...
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Firefox - Issues with dragging text (lagging)
System:
Updated Oneiric Kubuntu on AMD Cpu and Ati Gfx with open driver
Firefox has this feature, that that lets one drag and drop the selection and Pictures around while having the selected visible.
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Unity launcher bar stuck and won't hide
When using drag and drop the launcher bar reveals and will not hide unless I close the program.
Is their a fix?
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How can I achieve Windows-like drag and drop behaviour? [closed]
It is a problem to drag item from one window to another when they are overlapped. When we click in a window it immediately focused and upper window go behind of this. But I found that in Windows and ...
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Firefox drag and drop URL
can any one help me with this problem of firefox?
I have two firefox windows open. Now i want to drag a URL link from one window to the another, but I can't do it in Ubuntu 12.04
I can do this ...
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Touchpad jumps to the edges when I drag-and-drop
Ever since Ubuntu 12.04, when I make any drag-and-drop movement with my touchpad and my finger reaches any edge of the touchpad, my cursor jumps to the respective edge of the screen.
You can imagine ...
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Can't Drag & Drop text to unity launcher (e.g. url's, highlighted text)
I'm trying to create a unity launcher icon (.dekstop file) on which you can drop any (selected/highlighted) text from a web browser, google chrome in my case.
I know you can use the "MimeType=" key ...
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Drag and Drop Files in Unity with 3 Monitors
I have been experiencing an odd phenomenon in Ubuntu Unity (2D and 3D) with 11.04/11.10 and 12.04.
I have three monitors running on nVidia gpus (in Ubuntu 12.04, this configured itself with the ...
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How do I fix dragging items between two monitors?
I have two monitors set up using Nvidia Twinview on Ubuntu 11.10.
When I drag something (a file, a link on a website, select text, etc.), my right-hand monitor screws up. Usually the screen shifts up ...
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How do I drag a file into an open application?
I can't understand how to drag files into running application. For example:
I have an image on my desktop or a folder and I want to drag it into libreoffice writer.
I have files that I want to ...
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Windows keep moving as if I did ALT+Click [closed]
It happens frequently, and it's driving me crazy: I'm using my touchpad and - for example - scroll through a list, and suddenly, the window will "jump" so that it's centered around my cursor, and it ...
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How to move a file/window from one desktop to another desktop?
I've updated the system to Ubuntu 11.10 and set Gnome Shell as default GUI. Now I cannot move files from one desktop to another.
Let me illustrate this. I used to have Thunderbird maximized on ...
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Dragging files across workspaces in 11.10
In 11.04, I was able to select a file in Nautilus and while dragging/folding the file change workspace using the regualr keyboard shortcut keys.
This was very handy if for example I had to attach a ...
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select and drag-paste in terminal
Generally this feature is there in web-pages, text files that when you double click( or select some text area) and drag it some other location, then it gets paste over there.
like above I selected ...
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Google Chrome Drag and Drog Lags in Oneric Unity? And after full screen in google chrome, unity dash appears behind the google chrome window? [closed]
Why does dragging and dropping in Google Chrome lag under unity in Oneric? This doesn't happen when under gnome shell. And after press F11 (Fullscreen), and back again, and click on the ubuntu dash ...
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Launcher does not pop out a running app when dragging a file to it [closed]
I have a small screen so prefer working with only one visible app at a time.
In 11.04, I could drag a file from nautilus to the launcher, hover above another app, like chromium or gedit. The launcher ...
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Can't drag and drop text in gedit [closed]
I've installed gnome-shell on Ubuntu 11.10 but now, when I'm on Unity, and when I drag and drop text in gedit, gedit crashes !
I've tried to uninstall gnome-shell, but nothing changes.
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How do I stop the unity side bar from apearing when I try to drag & drop?
Every time I use Drag&Drop (even with Bookmarks in Firefox or songs in Banshee) the unity side bar apears and often blocks the place where I want to drop it. Is there a way to fix this?
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