Questions tagged [drag-and-drop]

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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I cannot move multiple files by drag and drop method

I'm using Ubuntu 20.04.1 LTS. My problem is when I want to move some files to another place, I'm selecting files then trying to move but the selections disappearing and this way I can move only one ...
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Why is alt+tab not working when dragging out of Firefox?

In contrast to previous Ubuntu versions, alt+tab while dragging seems to work fine in Ubuntu 18.04. For instance, I can start dragging a file, alt+tab to a different application, and drop the file ...
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Why can I not drag and drop files from nautilus file manager to firefox in Ubuntu 18.04 LTS?

I try to drag and drop a file from nautilus to firefox but can't do that.
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Create .url files when drag and drop from browser instead of .desktop

I used to drag-and-drop links from the browser in Windows to a folder to save them. That created files with extension .url, and the content is like: [InternetShortcut] URL=https://askubuntu.com/ When ...
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Drag and Drop to Firefox in 20.04

I see that other threads talk about icons and drag and drop errors to the Desktop. For me, it is the Firefox browser. I am not able to upload pictures to GitHub and a few other websites using Drag and ...
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Drag-and-drop problem in Ubuntu 23.04

I am frequently downloading zip or rar archive files from the Web to extract their contents into a folder. There are two applications on my system that handle these type of archive files: Archive ...
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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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Unable to drag & drop file on Lubuntu using Pcmanfm-qt

What is not working? Dragging item from one place, to another bookmarked place/folder, after the drag, nothing happen What is working? Dragging item from one place, to another folder inside the ...
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Dragging Folder Gets Stuck

I run three monitors and it seems when a file or folder is placed in the first column of the middle or right monitor it gets stuck there. I can no longer drag and move the file or folder from that ...
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How to activate touchpad Drag Lock on Wayland on 20.10?

I'd like some leeway to reposition my finger during a drag-and-drop with my touchpad, but the solutions I find all mention either synclient which is not installed by default and I assume is not ...
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Is there a way I can drag and drop files to applications in the dock using Gnome desktop environment?

I am using the Gnome desktop environment and I see that it is lacking a lot of features that I think are not so hard to implement. One of these features is the ability to drag and drop files to ...
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Ability to drag and drop files on Desktop to other apps

On 18.04 and 18.10 I was able to drag for example a file that was on the Desktop and drop it in the Telegram app, Google Drive and so on. Now on 19.04 it does not allow for drag and dropping of files ...
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Touchpad problem on Ubuntu 18.04

I have a laptop running Ubuntu 18.04 but the touchpad seems very sensitive. When I try to use touchpad after a couple of seconds the cursor drags down. It is almost like it remembers one touch from ...
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File disappeared dragging it from Windows host to Ubuntu guest in VirtualBox

Today I encounter a problem when using VBox .What the concrete is that : The version VBox I am using is Version 5.2.2 r119230 (Qt5.6.2) The host machine is Windows 10 Education and the guest OS on ...
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drag'n drop from desktop --> mouse stuck in hand icon

This maybe related to 17.10: Drag-and-drop from folders to desktop always copies files : When I try to drag a file from the desktop to an open Nautilus window the cursor changes to the copy-cursor (a ...
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How to make drag and drop work running Oracle VM VirtualBox

I have Ubuntu Server 16.04 amd64 running in Oracle VM Virtual Box 5.1.6. I have installed the Guest Additions CD. Installed open-vm-tools and open-vm-tools-desktop however drag and drop from host (...
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How can a file be dropped into a Wine window?

I'm trying to open a file in the program GXSCC. This program is designed to open files that are dropped into its window. How can I do this with the program running in Wine on Ubuntu? When I try to ...
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Nautilus Crashes when Dragging and Dropping Files - Wiley

I'm using the 64-bit version of Wiley. When dragging and dropping files using Nautilus (or other file mgmt apps) the application crashes. I've read a couple of other threads on the same topic but ...
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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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Drag and drop incompatible with scrolling in Firefox using touchscreen

I have been testing my touchscreen to perform some operations on web browsers and we are running into an issue. When we don't change the MOZ_USE_XINPUT2=1 then the drag and drop works but it doesn't ...
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Drag and drop gmail atachtment to files app

For me it is an essential feature in the business environment, I cannot drag and drop a pdf from the web browser, chrome, firefox, edge, etc., in Gmail to the file explorer. Is there any way to do it? ...
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Ubuntu 22.04 - allow drag'n'drop files from Chrome download toolbar to desktop

How can I allow drag'n'drop files from Chrome download toolbar to desktop area: Now I can't do it.
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Click and drag on trackpad doesn't move after reaching edges of trackpad

There is a feature in Windows which helps in dragging when you reach the end of the touchpad. Like if you are dragging a folder in Ubuntu if you reach the edge of the touchpad the dragging just stops, ...
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Ubuntu 20.04 starts drag&drop too soon

Is there a way to increase the delay (the time the left mouse button must be pressed before starting drag&drop) distinguishing between a click and drag&drop? I often click on something, but ...
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Is it possible to drag and drop from a search box in Catfish?

I have many terabytes of data to sort and am using Catfish with Thunar 1.6 using Xfce 4.12 in Ubuntu 18.04. I can find everything I'm looking for with no problem, however some files are 10 sub-...
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Krusader: drag'n'drop file to terminal adds newline before closing quote

When I drag and drop a file from Krusader to my terminal, it quotes the filename with single quotes but adds a newline before the closing quote. I then have to do Ctrl-C to correct the quoting before ...
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Dragging and dropping across full screen applications in Gnome in 20.04

I remember that before upgrading from 16.04 to 20.04 I used to be able to drag and drop across applications that are each in full screen, by using the application switching mechanism (Alt-tabbing), or ...
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Glitches when trying to updating the "gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons"

So, a new version of "gnome-shell-extension-desktop-icons" has came out with features that i want, like being able to drag files with your mouse into your browser. But when i've installed ...
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Drag and drop a folder to a website in chrome on Ubuntu 20.04

Well, I'm looking to deploy a website using Netlify Drop, but it seems to me that drag & drop does not really work in Ubuntu, as far as dragging an item to chrome is concerned. So, my question is ...
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How do I drag and drop between two Files (Nautilus) windows when using Wayland on Ubuntu 20.04

I have switched to using Wayland on Ubuntu 20.04 because the unresolved copy and paste bug in Mutter made Libre Office Calc unusable for me. When I open two folders side by side using Files (Nautilus)...
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Drag to custom trash

So, I made this custom trash can. I want to be able to drag-and-drop files to put them in the trash folder. This is my desktop file: [Desktop Entry] Type=Application Name=Trash Comment=Trash Icon=...
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Vmplayer drag and drop issue from guest to host

I am having an issue with the drag and drop feature of VMware Workstation Player 15. I have vmtools installed as well, but perhaps there is an issue with the installation I am unaware of. I am using ...
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Activities Overview Hot Corner and file drag on it (non-optimal location of window thumbnails)

I use Activities Overview Hot Corner to drag-n-drop files to background windows from nautilus window. But I don't understand why when i use Overview Hot Corner with clean mouse or with Super/Win ...
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How to enable cursor edge dragging (Drag and Drop) in Ubuntu 18.04?

While dragging I want to enable dragging on the edge of track pad (like in drag and drop). I could not find a switch for it.
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Ubuntu 17.10 Display manager drag'n'drop broken

I have three displays, but I cannot rearrange displays in the display manager (Displays "app") because the drag'n'drop is not working. I see the drag symbol as cursor but displays will not move, which ...
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Drag and drop not working in 16.04 LTS

Drag-and-drop is not working under various contexts in 16.04 LTS on my machine. When I start dragging a file, "hand" icon appears, but then when I hover over another window,and release, nothing ...
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Disable unity panel popping up on file drag

My problem is the unity panel popping up when I'm dragging a file with the mouse. I currently have the panel set to auto-hide with the lowest sensitivity value, so it normally only pops up when I ...
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Drag-and-drop file onto executable in Quick Launcher

I wish to drag files from Nautilus onto a certain executable (.desktop file) in my Unity quick launcher (so that the executable file will run with the path of the dragged file as its first argument). ...
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Dragging windows between workspaces in 14.10

Quick question: Has dragging windows between workspaces been partly disabled in the new release 14.10? I can only drag left-right with ctrl+alt+shift+arrow. Dragging up-down does not work. Can it be ...
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How can I get rid of artifacts without logging out?

So, I was dragging some files around in Nautilus and I wanted to cancel a drag. So, I just hit escape. Then I got this weird file icon floating always on top on my screen that I couldn't figure out ...
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Cannot drag select on desktop with mouse and drag with finger on touch

Hello can someone please help me? I have Thinkpad Yoga with touch screen, Ubuntu 23.10 with Ubuntu desktop manager (Wayland)? When I boot Ubuntu 23.10 from live CD, I can drag select with mouse on ...
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How to increase touchpad drag lock delay?

First off, by "drag lock" I mean that, whatever is being dragged with a normal touchpad drag, isn't released when the finger is lifted off the touchpad. Hence, having reached the edge of the ...
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Changing the drop zone when drag & drop an icon on the desktop

I was wondering if it was possible to change the color of the drop zone when you are droping an icon/folder on your desktop. Most likely, it would be possible to change an HEX/RGBA value in the gnome-...
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22.04 mouse drag-and-drop select text not working

In 20.04 mouse drag selected texts to another application. For instance mark a text of Chromium translation and drag it with the held left bottom and releace/drop it to a gedit text file. In 22.04 ...
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Can't drag-and-drop files from NAS

I don't know when it changed but I used to be able to drag a subtitle file from my NAS and drop it into celluloid to activate subtitles. Now I have to pause the video and use the menu to open a ...
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dropping file on the application desktop shorcut/desktop file does not launch the exe

I m not able to launch the application by dropping the associated file on the desktop file/application desktop shorcut. Is there any configuration I need to make. This is my desktop entry file : [...
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kdenlive video editor not working drag and drop

when I try to edit a video in kdenlive , in my folder where video clips are stored I open the file and simply try to drag and drop it to kdenlive , but it's not work or I do not know how to do it , ...
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Drag-and-drop files for upload does not work in Firefox on Ubuntu

112.0.2 (64-bit) Firefox and Thunar 1.8.14 on Ubuntu 20.04.6 LTS (Xubuntu) [sudo apt install firefox resuls in firefox is already the newest version (112.0.2+build1-0ubuntu0.20.04.1), same for thunar ...
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Lubuntu: Dragging image from web browser (Falcon) is not effective

When I want to move an image from an internet browser (for example from Google images), it works worse than in the Windows operating system. Specifically, I am concerned about these two things: I ...
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Virtualbox not recognizing USB, drag 'n drop not working either

I installed Virtualbox a few days ago and wanted to copy something from the host to the guest but realized it's not happening. I tried it with Windows and a couple of Linux distros but nothing works. ...
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