Questions about selecting file and holding down the mouse button, dragging it to another part of the screen, then letting go of the button (dropping it).
Questions tagged [drag-and-drop]
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ubuntu 19.04 not able to create url shortcuts by drag/drop
It works on 18.04, but not on 19.04.
I am not able to drag and drop Chrome or Firefox url or bookmark to the folder or desktop.
When i drag drop to the folder i get the following error: "Drag and drop is not supported. An invalid drag type was…
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How can I achieve Windows-like drag and drop behaviour?
It is a problem to drag item from one window to another when they are overlapped. When we click in a window it immediately focused and upper window go behind of this. But I found that in Windows and Mac they immediately focused when press in blank…
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12.10 Drag and Drop not working
That's just it. I click on a file on the desktop with my mouse, drag it to another location on the desktop, or to an open folder, and....it zooms right back into the original position when I let go of the mouse button.
Am I a fool? It seems like a…
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How do I drag a file into an open application?
I can't understand how to drag files into running application. For example:
I have an image on my desktop or a folder and I want to drag it into libreoffice writer.
I have files that I want to attach to an email I am composing.
How do I do…
Richez
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Often dragging the top of a window ends up expanding it
very often when I drag the top of windows such as a browser window to move it to another location, Ubuntu expands the window instead. This happens regardless I use an external mouse or a trackpad. Is there a way to solve this problem?
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Does Ubuntu 18.04 support drag and drop files to applications?
I need to open an .exe file by dragging and droping it onto anther .exe file but it just doesn't work. Is there a way to make it work? I already tried other file managers and also i tried an alternative windows file manager(explorer++) but it still…
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Drag and drop disabled
On chromium browser when I copy a phone number from other application and do Control + F and paste phone number inside that box then try to drag phone number and paste inside on another website box it's not get pasted. Suddenly this happened.
I…
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Not able to use drag and drop
I am not able to drag and drop a docx file from desktop to Trash. And there is no application running in background. What couls be reason for this?
Utsav
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