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PolyBender

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Registered: 2013-05-11

Posts: 24

KDE Rectangle Selection [SOLVED]

Hi everyone,

I finally found the time to install archlinux on my new machine, and this time decided that I was going to go with KDE. I absolutely love it so far, but there's one little feature that I miss. You see I've taken the habbit of clicking and dragging onto my background which draws rectangle that lets you select multiple desktop icons. The thing is, I don't use desktop icons at all - I just like using that feature to draw little rectangles over my background and pretending that I'm framing or hiding parts of it, like someone's face, the sun, or a small mountain. I've been doing this for years when I'm bored or when I'm thinking of something important, maybe even since the very start of my computer using years.

But sadly, that little feature seems DISABLED by default, or worse, INEXISTANT on KDE and I haven't found a way to activate or install it. Does anyone know where in the settings something like this could be activated, or if I could somehow download and install it?

I know this might not be clear; English isn't my first language and honestly I'm not too sure how to say what I'm trying to say. I'm looking to activate the rectangle selection feature that Windows and many other DE's have which consists of clicking somewhere on your background, holding and dragging over the icons you want to select, then release so that said icons are now selected. In KDE. I don't absolutely need it. I just want it because I love doing that shit. Like I'm having panic attacks without it.

Thank you!

Last edited by PolyBender (2014-07-22 23:19:33)

Awebb

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Registered: 2010-05-06

Posts: 6,688

Re: KDE Rectangle Selection [SOLVED]

There are bugreports about the rectangle not going away, so there must be a rectangle. Did you turn off desktop icons all together?

lucke

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Registered: 2004-11-30

Posts: 4,019

Re: KDE Rectangle Selection [SOLVED]

You can either put a FolderView plasmoid there, or set your desktop to be one big FolderView (it should be somewhere in the settings you get when you right-click on the desktop). I would presume FolderView does support selection by dragging.

http://www.binarytides.com/display-icon … lder-view/

Last edited by lucke (2014-07-22 23:09:34)

davidm

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Registered: 2009-04-25

Posts: 371

Re: KDE Rectangle Selection [SOLVED]

I'm not sure but type in "Desktop Effects" in the search field on the menu and choose all effects.  One of the effects might work for you a little bit like you want even if it's not exactly the same.  Maybe "Mouse marks"?

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PolyBender

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Registered: 2013-05-11

Posts: 24

Re: KDE Rectangle Selection [SOLVED]

You can either put a FolderView plasmoid there, or set your desktop to be one big FolderView (it should be somewhere in the settings you get when you right-click on the desktop). I would presume FolderView does support selection by dragging.

http://www.binarytides.com/display-icon … lder-view/

I right-clicked on the background and switched from default desktop to folder view and it worked!

Thanks all of you. Feels awesome.