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Pratantula

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Registered: 2022-02-25

Posts: 2

Thunar: drag'n drop from Gwenview will only move, not copy

Hello!

I've stumbled upon a curious problem:

When selecting one or more images in Gwenview and using drag'n drop to copy them to another folder on the same file system, Thunar (as recipient) will only allow the images to be moved or linked, but not copied (trying with modifier keys alt, ctrl, shift). This is problematic e. g. when trying to copy selections of photos out of a bigger collection, where the latter should remain complete and unchanged.

Tried reproducing with gThumb as source and Thunar as recipient, and can also only move images.

I tried with Gwenview as source and Caja (and Krusader and Dolphin) as recipient, and there, images can be copied as well as moved.

Can anybody confirm this? Is there any way to influence this behaviour in Thunar (config files etc.)? Thanks!

Versions:
Devuan 4 / Chimaera
Thunar 4.16.8
Caja 1.24.0
Gwenview 20.12.3

ruuwa

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Registered: 2022-02-09

Posts: 22

Re: Thunar: drag'n drop from Gwenview will only move, not copy

It used to work? Or it worked on other distro/desktop environment you tried? 
Because I'd think that behavior is kinda normal. I tried it and as you said it moves the pictures when I have gwenview and thunar side by side, and then drag the pictures from one to the other. 

But somewhat related, copy (ctrl+c) doesn't work on my gwenview. So probably that's part of the problem. 

Side note, all linux image viewers kinda suck. I personally use mcomix, a comic app, for my image viewing. And coincidentally, dragging image from mcomix thumbnail actually copies the image. Unfortunately I couldn't figure how to select multiple images.

Pratantula

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Registered: 2022-02-25

Posts: 2

Re: Thunar: drag'n drop from Gwenview will only move, not copy

Thanks for responding.

I'm only using XFCE seriously as my main DE since upgrading to Devuan 4. There, it did not work at any time.
Previously I had been using KDE, then LXQt, and in both DEs moving and copying files from Gwenview worked as expected (with Dolphin and PcManFM-Qt respectively as file managers).

I also have the Ctrl+C problem. When selecting images in Gwenview, switching to Thunar and trying to paste, it will respond with something like "clipboard contains no data suitable for pasting" (can't recall exact wording right now).

Concerning the side note, I found that the image viewer that sucks least (for my use case) is Gwenview. If the issue at hand were a Gwenview problem, I might consider switching to gThumb, which seems pretty decent too, but it's the same there...

ruuwa

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Registered: 2022-02-09

Posts: 22

Re: Thunar: drag'n drop from Gwenview will only move, not copy

Another annoying issue with gwenview. Installing it on Arch installs a whole lot of KDE dependencies including baloo. It's KDE file indexer/search. Which for some reason is activated on default. I was wondering why my laptop runs hot every time I reboot. Man, I hate the image viewers on linux.

Last edited by ruuwa (2022-03-18 06:24:58)