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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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