On Thu, May 18, 2006 at 02:23:31PM -0400, José Alburquerque wrote: > POLONKAI Gergely wrote: > > >On Wed, May 17, 2006 at 11:26:29PM -0400, José Alburquerque wrote: > > > > > >>Hi. I have a simple question: Is it possible to select a file in > >>nautilus without it automatically being open if my mouse behavior is to > >>open files on a single click? Right now I'm running GNOME 2.8 (using > >>CentOS 4.3) and I love the great behavior of my desktop, but I'm > >>wondering if there's some mouse command or something that I'm not aware > >>of to select a file without it opening under the premise that my files > >>open on a single click. Any suggestions? TIA. > >> > >>Sincerely > >>Jose Alburquerque > >>_______________________________________________ > >>gnome-list mailing list > >>gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > >>http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list > >> > >> > > > >Sure! Make sure nothing else is selected (e.g click between two files), > >then press and hold Ctrl key while single-clicking on the desired file. > > > >Regards, > > > > > Thanks for your reply! My only problem is that I'm using the "list > view" of nautilus and not the "icon" view so I cannot click between two > files. This is why I'd like to find a keyboard/mouse command that > unselects all other files except the one being "clicked" on. Have you > ever used the list view with a lot of files in a small nautilus window? > There's no where to click in the window to unselect files that have been > selected. Do you understand what I mean? But thanks! > > -Jose > _______________________________________________ > gnome-list mailing list > gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx > http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list After experiencing a bit I found only one, although very "hard" solution to your problem. Press the up or down key, so now you have only one item selected. With Ctrl-click or Ctrl-Space you can unselect it, and now you can select a single file with another Ctrl-click. Another method may be when you right click on the desired item and press Esc to disband the popup menu. Just be creative :) -- POLONKAI Gergely C programmers never die, we just get cast into void. _______________________________________________ gnome-list mailing list gnome-list@xxxxxxxxx http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/gnome-list
