[SOLVED] Thunar 1.6 doesn't drag-and-drop with the right mouse button

GordonGR · 2012-12-11 12:33:21

Hallo all.

It might be something I've done (though I did delete my ~/.config/Thunar directory before upgrading), but Thunar doesn't let me drag-and-drop with the right mouse button, thus stopping me from copying something instead of moving it, etc. Has anyone else had that too?

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Joel · 2012-12-11 16:19:34

I can drag-drop, try to change your gtk2 theme. Some themes can make thunar unstable, like context menu appear and vanish.

GordonGR · 2012-12-11 16:40:48

No, it's not that. I tried all my themes.

anonymous_user · 2012-12-11 17:04:41

Is it supposed to be with the right-mouse button? I always thought drag and drop was done with the left button?

Joel · 2012-12-11 23:47:02

anonymous_user wrote:

Is it supposed to be with the right-mouse button? I always thought drag and drop was done with the left button?

Could be right-hand user

drcouzelis · 2012-12-12 03:30:11

Joel wrote:

anonymous_user wrote:
Is it supposed to be with the right-mouse button? I always thought drag and drop was done with the left button?
Could be right-hand user

Come on! Read what GordonGR wrote!

Microsoft Windows, Nautilus, the Haiku Tracker, and probably many other file managers have a feature where, when you right-click or middle-click and drag an icon to a new location, a pop-up menu appears and asks what you'd like to do (Move, Copy, Link). I thought I used to use this feature in Thunar too but it seems to have stopped working in recent versions. Has anyone else had any experience with it?

EDIT: Here's random blogger talking about the feature in an older version of Thunar: http://jeromeg.blog.free.fr/index.php?p … and-tricks So that's good, I wasn't just imagining the feature.

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anonymous_user · 2012-12-12 04:33:00

drcouzelis wrote:

Microsoft Windows, Nautilus, the Haiku Tracker, and probably many other file managers have a feature where, when you right-click or middle-click and drag an icon to a new location, a pop-up menu appears and asks what you'd like to do (Move, Copy, Link).

I have never used this feature however if left-mouse button drag and drop does work for GordonGR, then I suggest he file a bug report upstream. Also he might consider downgrading Thunar to an earlier version in the mean time.

P.S. drcouzelis, perhaps you were being sarcastic (and I missed the joke), but that is not a random blogger. Jérôme Guelfucci is one of the Xfce developers iirc.

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drcouzelis · 2012-12-12 07:58:33

anonymous_user wrote:

drcouzelis wrote:
Microsoft Windows, Nautilus, the Haiku Tracker, and probably many other file managers have a feature where, when you right-click or middle-click and drag an icon to a new location, a pop-up menu appears and asks what you'd like to do (Move, Copy, Link).
I have never used this feature however if left-mouse button drag and drop does work for GordonGR, then I suggest he file a bug report upstream. Also he might consider downgrading Thunar to an earlier version in the mean time.
P.S. drcouzelis, perhaps you were being sarcastic (and I missed the joke), but that is not a random blogger. Jérôme Guelfucci is one of the Xfce developers iirc.

You know, as I was typing that, I just KNEW someone was going to say something like that.

Sadly, I don't use sarcasm. Instead, I'm just ignorant.

Anyway, I'll look more at version diffs and stuff in the morning.

GordonGR · 2012-12-12 11:53:15

drcouzelis wrote:

Come on! Read what GordonGR wrote! […] it seems to have stopped working in recent versions.

That's what I was looking for, thanks :-) I'll file a bug report later and report back later.

I can't believe no one is using that feature, it's the most useful thing in a file manager after tabs!

drcouzelis · 2012-12-12 12:35:39

GordonGR wrote:

I can't believe no one is using that feature, it's the most useful thing in a file manager after tabs!

I know! Right? I like it the best when a file manager has that pop-up for EVERY click and drag action. I think it was Konqueror that was able to do that... Maybe there's a way to have Thunar behave like that as well.

GordonGR · 2012-12-12 12:44:05

Dolphin does that, actually, but I hate Qt for various reasons. Anyway, I'll ask them

GordonGR · 2012-12-12 14:31:45

Bug report here: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=9625

drcouzelis · 2012-12-12 15:06:14

Oh my gosh! During the time it took for you to create the bug report and for the developer to respond, I TOTALLY found the commit by myself that removes this functionality! (It's the one the developer linked to)

...I ...just wanted to let someone know how awesome I almost was.

On a positive note, after reviewing the code a bit, it looks like it'd be pretty easy to create a one line patch that will make that menu popup with every drag-and-drog, including with the left mouse button.

GordonGR · 2012-12-12 15:12:11

Hahahahaha!

Well, make an account and file the patch, dude

drcouzelis · 2012-12-23 04:59:15

...Surprise! I patched Thunar and added it to the AUR: https://aur.archlinux.org/packages/thunar-dnd-popup/

I took a copy of the git diff that removed this functionality, reversed it, and cleaned it up a bit. After I get some sleep, I may submit my patch to the bug report you created, but I feel a little silly doing that. I mean, it's just the code that was originally in Thunar put back into Thunar.

One change I made was in regards to the amount of time it takes to active the popup vs the context menu. It was originally tied to the "gtk-menu-popup-delay" variable in your current GTK2 settings file. I changed it to be a static 250 ms.

GordonGR · 2012-12-23 13:58:15

Dude, I bow to your awesomeness! You are the epitome of awesomeness, I wanna lick the awesomsause off your PKGBUILD!

Thanks

WorMzy · 2012-12-23 21:21:05

Kinky.

Cheers, drcouzelis. Just realised how much I missed this functionality today.

drcouzelis · 2012-12-27 18:19:53

The bug has been resolved and the functionality has been re-added in Thunar 1.6.2. I'll test it out when I get home.

GordonGR · 2012-12-28 14:33:58

I've been using it since yesterday and had no problems, so I'm marking this as solved. (Long overdue, I suppose.)

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