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From: candycanearter07 <candycanearter07@candycanearter07.nomail.afraid>
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Subject: Re: Program to dole out jpg's to subdirctories, card-dealing style.
Date: Tue, 1 Jul 2025 17:00:09 -0000 (UTC)
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Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote at 03:41 this Sunday (GMT):
> In comp.os.linux.misc, Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:
>> On Sat, 28 Jun 2025 14:07:22 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:
>>> I refuse to use drag-and-drop.  It's too dangerous, even for experienced
>>> users.  One slip of the finger on the mouse button you're dragging, and
>>> it's time for
>>> $ find ~ -print | grep <myfilename>
>
> Valid, but I'd probably go with:
>
>      find ~ -name \*myfilename\*
>
> I don't use drag-n-drop because I don't use any file manager I can drag
> from.

There's a handy program I use sometimes called dragon-drop that lets you
spawn a simple file window to drag onto programs as needed. Very useful
for scripts.

>> In my case, it would just end up on the desktop. (What? You don't have an 
>> entire virtual desktop dedicated to things like your email client?)
>
> Nope. Why would I need a virtual desktop for mailx? I don't have a
> "desktop" I have a root window blissfully free of icons. If only I could
> convince XDG aware programs that "Desktop" is not a place.
>
> $ grep -i desktop ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
> XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/.empty"
> $ (cd ; du .empty)
> 4       .empty
> $
>
> Elijah
> ------
> does a lot of command line file management on his phone, too


Do you use xscreensaver to set the root window?
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