topic title: (Solved) ROX Filer - can not copy multiple items
Posts: 80
Rademes
Joined: 26 Dec 2016
#1
Good Day!
I can not copy multiple items using ROX Filer __{{emoticon}}__ . I always get this error message:

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How can I do this?
Also I have looked here:
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Does ROX Filer still supported by developers or not?
Last edited by Rademes on 05 Jan 2017, 16:13, edited 1 time in total.
Posts: 1,028
SamK
Joined: 21 Aug 2011
#2
Rademes wrote:I can not copy multiple items using ROX Filer __{{emoticon}}__ . I always get this error message... How can I do this?
To copy multiple files
  • Open 2 Rox-Filer windows
    Select multiple files in window_1
    Drag-n-drop into window_2
Posts: 4,164
rokytnji
Joined: 20 Feb 2009
#3
SamK wrote:
Rademes wrote:I can not copy multiple items using ROX Filer __{{emoticon}}__ . I always get this error message... How can I do this?
To copy multiple files
  • Open 2 Rox-Filer windows
    Select multiple files in window_1
    Drag-n-drop into window_2
Just to add to what SamK said. Use the Ctrl key when selecting mutiple files when left clicking with mouse or trackpad touch.
That will hold the copy in place.
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Rademes
Joined: 26 Dec 2016
#4
Well, it is very unusual and strange, that file manager can not copy multiple items using [Ctrl+C] or drop-down menu item. Can you tell, why it is so? I have tried many file managers, and I see this for the first time.
Posts: 1,445
skidoo
Joined: 09 Feb 2012
#5
Can you tell, why it is so?

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The ROX Desktop is a graphical desktop environment for the X Window System.
It is based on the ROX-Filer which is a drag and drop spatial file manager.
The environment was inspired by the user interface of RISC OS.
See also:

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I'll refrain from commenting about"strange and unusual", just mention that I prefer spacefm filemanager.

Wait! I do have an observation regarding"strange and unusual":

In a GUI environment, most users learn that a convention exists ~~ by convention,"Ctrl+C" is associated with"Copy" action.
That is a"strange and unusal" convention, is contrary to the pre-existing, across several decades, convention employed within TTY / terminal / shell environment, wherein
Ctrl + C is used to kill a process with signal SIGINT
Posts: 521
Shay
Joined: 20 Apr 2015
#6
In a GUI environment, most users learn that a convention exists ~~ by convention,"Ctrl+C" is associated with"Copy" action.
That is a"strange and unusal" convention, is contrary to the pre-existing, across several decades, convention employed within TTY / terminal / shell environment, wherein
Ctrl + C is used to kill a process with signal SIGINT
Thank you.
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Rademes
Joined: 26 Dec 2016
#7
I am using antiX-linux for 5 days only, so it is difficult for me to say which file manager is better.
I told"strange and unusual" because I have tried many file managers, and I see this for the first time. Also in case I will install this Linux for another people, I am 100% sure, that I will have to explain why [Ctrl+C] does not working with multiple items.

Since you have mentioned SpaceFM, I have one question: Is it possible in SpaceFM to change files view style (Compact/Detailed/Icons) using key combination (Ctrl+1/Ctrl+2) like in PCManFM? If yes, how to set this key combination?
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skidoo
Joined: 09 Feb 2012
#8
Today I stumbled across this topic while searching
in SpaceFM [..] how to set this key combination?

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I always get this error message: something ru 19083719837
In earlier replies, I neglected to point out that rox-filer keybinds (accelerators) are too-easily set (or accidentally changed)
by pressing a key or a keycombo while mouse cursor is hovering over the opened rox-filer contextmenu.

Possibly, Rademes had accidentally pressed [Ctrl+C] while hovering some other menu entry, causing that accelerator to be assigned to some other command.