Ubuntu :: Drag File/Folder To Taskbar Button Creates Launcher, Not Bring Folder To Foreground?
May 20, 2011
After upgrading to 11.04, I noticed something strange, being that when I want to drag a file or folder from one Nautilus folder window to another which is not visible, I can no longer hold the item over said folder's taskbar button and wait for it to appear. It just shows the + for copy, and when I let go (which I have no choice but to eventually do), it creates a launcher to that item (I assume it's doing that, and not actually copying there, but the + has me unsure).
I've looked in Nautilus's preferences to see if this is some new behaviour that I can revert back to, but could find nothing there.
I'm of course using the Classic desktop with bottom panel being the taskbar. If you know how I can rectify this, please let me know, as the times I would want to create a file or folder launcher without the usual hassle would be rare, but I am constantly dragging stuff from one folder to another, and it would be a real pain to have to line up source and destination folders each time.
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when i used windows there was this wonderful editor named Notepad++.it was perfect(it still is) some of its best and useful features of it (for me) was:
1-open all files in a folder when drag and drop the folder on it
2-search and replace a statement in all open files
3-have an extended mode which include special characters like
and so on.. i want to know if there is an editor with this feature in ubuntu?
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q)how can i bring the backgroud process to foreground i tried like below1]hp-linux@hp-linux-desktop:/usr/share$ top
top - 11:28:24 up 1:57, 2 users, load average: 0.55, 0.65, 0.62
Tasks: 158 total, 3 running, 155 sleeping, 0 stopped, 0 zombie
Cpu(s): 6.1%us, 2.9%sy, 0.7%ni, 87.1%id, 3.0%wa, 0.2%hi, 0.1%si, 0.0%st
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I tried this:
#im already in this directory
aaa=./*
for a in $aaa
do mkdir $a
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I tried stuff like:
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for a in $aaa
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This of course also did not work.
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Just to be clear here are the contents of this folder:
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(audio) - R56339.EXE (NIC-Onboard-Intel) - R54402.EXE
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[URL]
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