Questions tagged [drag-and-drop]
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Why is a drag-and-drop screen shown persistently after copying some items?
I'm using Firefox on KDE on Wayland. When I copy or drag-and-drop some texts or files from anywhere, suddenly various websites like Google Drive, Facebook or Claude display a full-screen drag-and-drop ...
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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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Peppermint OS Can't drag and drop to terminal?
I have been using ubuntu quite a while. Drag and drop allowed me to get the path to the terminal which is so convenient. Peppermint OS doesn't seem to have this functionality. Why can't I drag and ...
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.desktop file drag n' drop not working after Gnome upgrade
On Debian 9 I was able to drag and drop files onto .desktop files and use %F successful. After upgrading to Debian 10 and Gnome 3.30 this is no longer possible. Is there a solution? Thanks.
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Kate/Kwrite editor drag/drop/copy functionality gone
Somehow I've lost some functionality in Kate and Kwrite which I've employed frequently. In the past, as recently as a couple hours ago, I could select some text and drag-and-drop it elsewhere. If the ...
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How to elaborate multiple selected files by drag & drop in a bash script
I'm using Dolphin in a KDE Plasma 5 Desktop Environment. Here I wrote a bash script, which can elaborate exactly ONE file, when I drag a file from Dolphin and drop it on a ".desktop" defined script ...
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How to pass arguments to command through Desktop shortcut without having to open a terminal?
I'm using a LXDE desktop. I created a shortcut in the desktop to a python program, which can be passed files to, which are then opened in the GUI. I mean passing files (file absolute paths) to the ...
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How Drag & Drop works in linux?
Should one learn the implementation of clipboard first, or drag and drop (D&D) is completely independent? Which components contain code, which is related to D&D? (link to .svg will be the ...
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