PCmanFM

[konaexpress]

Hi, got a question about PCmanFM...

How in the world do you get Favorites to work in it. I have tried many times to drag and drop a folder in to the left pain but it does not stick like it does in other distros. How do you set folders for the top left pain also?

Thanks -John

[djohnston]

I assume you're dealing with DebGambas here. Yes, the Debian config is different than PCLOS. However, it's easy to add a "favorite" to the left pane. It's called a "bookmark". (Don't ask me why.)

Open the folder you want as a favorite. While viewing the contents of that folder, click Bookmarks > Add To Bookmarks. Give it any name you want. Want to delete a "bookmark"? Right-click in the left pane and select "Remove from Bookmark".

[melodie]

Hi,
I also tried a few times to use a drag-and-drop method in PCManFM but no : only using the menus as described by djohnston do work.

PS: my bad, in PCManFM 1.1.0 in Archlinux I just dragged and dropped successfully my "Documents" folder to the bookmarks!

[konaexpress]

Thanks for the help guys.

There has to be a setting somewhere, I have seen it work in other distros. Gambos alpha 3 is based on Lubuntu 12.04 but it works in Lubuntu 12.10. I don't get it....

I do not have the Deb version of Gambos up yet, one man show but I will get to it.

[melodie]

Kona, can you look in your menus to see which version PCManFM you are running ?  (Help > About)

There is no option to set it up, but it might be a matter of version. Unless your icon theme has a bug ? (Never know... )

[djohnston]

John,

I just tried both drag and drop and the "bookmark" method I described on PCManFM in my copy of Bodhi. (It's a *buntu e17 distro, but I use PCManFM as the file manager.) Both methods work. The version number is 0.9.10. See what your version number is.

[konaexpress]

John,

I just tried both drag and drop and the "bookmark" method I described on PCManFM in my copy of Bodhi. (It's a *buntu e17 distro, but I use PCManFM as the file manager.) Both methods work. The version number is 0.9.10. See what your version number is.

I checked and it is 0.9.10.

I asked this question in the LXDE main forum and they could not help me, none of the programmers for LXDE or PCmanFM look at the forums from what I understand, mail list only.

Has anyone tried SpaceFM?

[konaexpress]

OK, found a PPA for PCmanFM 1.0

Think I might give this a try and see if it fixes anything.

[melodie]

Hi,
You will be needing the matching version of libfm. Could you paste the link to that pcmanfm'ppa please? It seems I can't find it at the moment.

And yes, we tried SpaceFM. We have also talked about it on the forum the last days...

[konaexpress]

Yes, I can do that. Give me a couple of days, away for weekend and only on my iPad for now.

[Taco.22]

Has anyone tried SpaceFM?

There is a version of VillageBox at this link with Spacefm as default FM.
The thread to discuss it is here.

[melodie]

Hi,
Taco, I would suggest you add "- With SpaceFM " at the end of your title, in the Village in space topic, to make it more clear.

[konaexpress]

I think he was doing a play-on-words with the title.

[melodie]

I think he was doing a play-on-words with the title.

So do I, however I first thought it might be a new sort of astronomy version, and after thought I think adding what I suggested above would be good to ease any future related research.

[konaexpress]

I think that this is the PPA here, I will try and test it.
deb http://ppa.launchpad.net/nathan-renniewaldock/ppa/ubuntu precise main
deb-src http://ppa.launchpad.net/nathan-renniewaldock/ppa/ubuntu precise main