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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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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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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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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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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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 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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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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Can't drag and drop a file to attach in thunderbird via the unity dock [closed]
From a maximized nautilus window how can I drag and drop a file to the attachment zone in a thunderbird compose message window ?
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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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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. ...
