[SOLVED] How to disable single-click to open files in GTK chooser?

Malvineous · 2016-05-07 00:11:30

Hi all,

Is there a way to tweak the GTK file chooser so that when you click on a file or folder that is already selected, it does NOT open it? I find this very irritating because half the time I double-click on folders to open them, but sometimes I forget I can't double-click on the first folder in the list. If I do, the double-click opens the folder on the first click, and selects the first file inside the folder on the second click, which is not what I want.

It would be so much easier if it behaved the same way every time like it used to, and you always double-click to open a folder and select a file, and single clicking never does this.

I'm running the Awesome WM, so is there any way to change this settings when you don't have a control panel GUI like other desktop environments provide?

Last edited by Malvineous (2016-05-07 08:50:25)

shulamy · 2016-05-07 06:49:03

there should be a "file management" settings somewhere in every DM.

in mate for example it's in "behavior" tab.

ezik

Malvineous · 2016-05-07 08:14:20

AwesomeWM doesn't have any, it's just a plain window manager, so I'm not running a full desktop environment. So there is presumably a Gnome program to set options like this, but I don't know what it might be! Any ideas?

justasug · 2016-05-07 08:41:43

I don't think it's possible to change that behaviour via settings.
THESE appear to be all of the options which can be changed for the GTK3 file-chooser via gsettings/dconf-editor. There's nothing about double-click mentioned in there which makes me think that the behaviour is hardcoded into GTK3 itself.

Malvineous · 2016-05-07 08:50:00

Aha, that's what I was looking for! Shame there's no option for it but at least that answers my question. Many thanks! I have logged a GTK+ bug report instead.

Thorsten Reinbold · 2016-05-07 11:27:39

Malvineous wrote:

I have logged a GTK+ bug report instead.

Could you post a link to it? Thanks!

Malvineous · 2016-05-07 12:17:15

Here it is.

museb · 2018-01-05 01:08:17

So it is not solved. I desperately want a solution for this. Can't believe everyone is going with it. It's super annoying! for example; I keep uploading the wrong files in wordpress and once the wrong file is uploading there's no way of cancelling argghhh

So in the bugreport I read

'In the meantime, people interested in the "old" double click behavior can revert this commit https://git.gnome.org/browse/gtk%2B/com … 03cf33be01 and rebuild GTK.'

using a commit and rebuild something is a little over my head so if someone could explain me how I go about doing this, please!

jasonwryan · 2018-01-05 01:17:22

Don't necrobump, especially a solved thread: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Co … bumping.22

Closing

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[SOLVED] How to disable single-click to open files in GTK chooser?

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