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From: Darklight on 22 Feb 2010 04:11
Tosspot wrote:

> On 02/21/2010 10:59 AM, Darklight wrote:
>> Tosspot wrote:
>>
>>> How is this done? It's the effect that it shows the content of a folder
>>> when the mouse hovers over it. Like the trashcan for instance.
>>
>>
>> If i got this write right click on the desktop click on unlock widits the
>> click on add wigits then clcik on file system then you will find what you
>> looking for.
>
> I'm using Folder View/Desktop to get something that approaches a
> traditional KDE3.5 setup. 'Preview' is disabled and in fact appears not
> to do anything :(
>
> It's rather annoying, if I want to know whats in a folder I'll click on
> it.

or unlock desktop and remove the folder wigit.
From: JT on 22 Feb 2010 04:21
On 22/02/10 10:11, Darklight wrote:
> Tosspot wrote:
>
>
>> On 02/21/2010 10:59 AM, Darklight wrote:
>>
>>> Tosspot wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>> How is this done? It's the effect that it shows the content of a folder
>>>> when the mouse hovers over it. Like the trashcan for instance.
>>>>
>>>
>>> If i got this write right click on the desktop click on unlock widits the
>>> click on add wigits then clcik on file system then you will find what you
>>> looking for.
>>>
>> I'm using Folder View/Desktop to get something that approaches a
>> traditional KDE3.5 setup. 'Preview' is disabled and in fact appears not
>> to do anything :(
>>
>> It's rather annoying, if I want to know whats in a folder I'll click on
>> it.
>>
> or unlock desktop and remove the folder wigit.
>
<ALT-F2>gnome-terminal<ENTER>ls
?

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Kind regards, JT

From: Tosspot on 22 Feb 2010 14:55
On 02/22/2010 10:10 AM, Darklight wrote:
> Tosspot wrote:
>
>> On 02/21/2010 10:59 AM, Darklight wrote:
>>> Tosspot wrote:
>>>
>>>> How is this done? It's the effect that it shows the content of a folder
>>>> when the mouse hovers over it. Like the trashcan for instance.
>>>
>>>
>>> If i got this write right click on the desktop click on unlock widits the
>>> click on add wigits then clcik on file system then you will find what you
>>> looking for.
>>
>> I'm using Folder View/Desktop to get something that approaches a
>> traditional KDE3.5 setup. 'Preview' is disabled and in fact appears not
>> to do anything :(
>>
>> It's rather annoying, if I want to know whats in a folder I'll click on
>> it.
>
> Have you tried right clicking on desktop then go to display and clicking on
> more preview options.

Yep, that was my first port of call. a) It doesn't and b) I can't work
out what it actually does :(

From: Tosspot on 22 Feb 2010 14:58
On 02/22/2010 10:11 AM, Darklight wrote:
> Tosspot wrote:
>
>> On 02/21/2010 10:59 AM, Darklight wrote:
>>> Tosspot wrote:
>>>
>>>> How is this done? It's the effect that it shows the content of a folder
>>>> when the mouse hovers over it. Like the trashcan for instance.
>>>
>>>
>>> If i got this write right click on the desktop click on unlock widits the
>>> click on add wigits then clcik on file system then you will find what you
>>> looking for.
>>
>> I'm using Folder View/Desktop to get something that approaches a
>> traditional KDE3.5 setup. 'Preview' is disabled and in fact appears not
>> to do anything :(
>>
>> It's rather annoying, if I want to know whats in a folder I'll click on
>> it.
>
> or unlock desktop and remove the folder wigit.

Ok, call me stupid, but what is the 'Folder View Widget'? I mean, I'm
using folder view because it looks like a KDE 3.5 desktop. Am I being
terminally dumb here?
From: JT on 23 Feb 2010 02:55
On 22/02/10 20:58, Tosspot wrote:
> On 02/22/2010 10:11 AM, Darklight wrote:
>
>> Tosspot wrote:
>>
>>
>>> On 02/21/2010 10:59 AM, Darklight wrote:
>>>
>>>> Tosspot wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>> How is this done? It's the effect that it shows the content of a folder
>>>>> when the mouse hovers over it. Like the trashcan for instance.
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> If i got this write right click on the desktop click on unlock widits the
>>>> click on add wigits then clcik on file system then you will find what you
>>>> looking for.
>>>>
>>> I'm using Folder View/Desktop to get something that approaches a
>>> traditional KDE3.5 setup. 'Preview' is disabled and in fact appears not
>>> to do anything :(
>>>
>>> It's rather annoying, if I want to know whats in a folder I'll click on
>>> it.
>>>
>> or unlock desktop and remove the folder wigit.
>>
> Ok, call me stupid, but what is the 'Folder View Widget'? I mean, I'm
> using folder view because it looks like a KDE 3.5 desktop. Am I being
> terminally dumb here?
>
Not to start a flame-war here, but precactly (sic) this kind of misery
made me turn to Gnome after using KDE since I started using Linux some
10+ years ago.

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Kind regards, JT

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