Hi Riccardo,
My comments are below...
On 2025-06-06 14:26:42 +0200 Riccardo Mottola
<[email protected]> wrote:
Hi,
Patrick Cardona wrote:
Hello,
Within GWorkspace (1.10) The command (Alt) key does not tranform a
"moving
file" action (executed with the mouse) to a "copying file" action:
but it
makes the pointer to become a "forbidden" icon and so the desired
action
fails.
Do you note the same behaviour ?
No, I do not have this behaviour and it works for me: copying,
linking,
moving are indicated by the cursor icon and react to key modifiers.
Note that
"move" is the default (green arrow). Copy and Link have dedicated
modifiers
and actions. There are some glitches in determining a move on mounted
systems
(while e.g. on windows C: and D: are easily identified as separate
and
requiring a copy), but this affects only the default expected action
compared
to mac and win.
I extra "fixed" this in February and is included in latest release
1.1.0 -
It is that I recently buit.
however you need up-to-date gui too for it to work well.
I guess it is also: latest from git.
Furthermore, you might have to tweak modifiers on certain keyboards
(e.g. if
you have Alt Gr, you do not have proper Left-Alt and Right-Alt which
is the
default US mapping). You can do that in SystemPreferences. You might
also
want to check that your window manager doesn't "eat" certain
modifiers.
E.g. windowmaker might have assigned a modifier to alt-drag windows.
In that
case, instead of file action you see the window move.
I tried to change these settings within WPrefs and SystemPreferences
together, but without success until now:
WPrefs: in "Mouse Preferences" / "Grab a window with mouse" was Mod1
(Alt) - changed to Mod4 (Super)
In "System Preferences / Modifier Keys" : First Alternate : I tried
"Left Alt", then "Right Ctrl"... but without success...
Users with a French keyboard Layout - and maybe a the Pi400 as mine -
are welcome to report their working settings.
Riccardo
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Patrick Cardona - Pi400 - GNU/Linux (Debian 12 aarch64: RPI OS Lite)
Xorg (1:1.7.1-1.2) - libcairo2 (1.16.0-7+rpt1 arm64)
Window Maker (0.96.0) - GWorkspace (1.1.0 - 02 2025) - Theme: Classic
- MUA: GNUMail (1.4.0)
