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xfce:thunar:working-with-files-and-folders [2015/04/19 20:13] – [Selecting Files] hjudtxfce:thunar:working-with-files-and-folders [2015/05/15 20:12] – [Selecting Files] hjudt
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 To select a single file, you can simply click on it with the left mouse button. You can select multiple single files by holding down the control key and clicking on the files, or hold down the shift key to select a range of files. Also, with the mouse you can click somewhere in the whitespace and drag a selection box over the desired files. To select a single file, you can simply click on it with the left mouse button. You can select multiple single files by holding down the control key and clicking on the files, or hold down the shift key to select a range of files. Also, with the mouse you can click somewhere in the whitespace and drag a selection box over the desired files.
  
-The details view is special in this regard because it does not support starting the selection from whitespace, only from existing rows. That's due to the way the GtkTreeView widget works that is used for the implementation of this view. To compensate for this, it allows dragging files only by clicking on the left-most column, which is usually the column showing the filenames if not configured otherwise, while starting a selection can be performed by clicking and holding the mouse button in any of the rest of the columns. +The details view is special in this regard because it does not support starting the selection from whitespace, only from existing rows. That's due to the way the GtkTreeView widget works that is used for the implementation of this view. To compensate for this, it allows dragging files only by clicking on the "Name" column, that is the one showing the filenames, while starting a selection can be performed by clicking and holding the mouse button in any of the rest of the columns. 
-To put it in a nutshell: If you want to drag files with the mouse, click on the left-most column, and if you want to select multiple files with the mouse, start the selection by clicking on and dragging over any of the other columns.+To put it in a nutshell: If you want to drag or select single files with the mouse click on their names, and if you want to select multiple files with the mouse, start the selection by clicking on and dragging over any of the other columns.
  
 You can also select files by providing a pattern with the keyboard shortcut Control+s or from the main menu {gui>Edit>Select pattern...}. For example, to select all text files, hit Control+s and enter "*.txt" in the dialog. You can also select files by providing a pattern with the keyboard shortcut Control+s or from the main menu {gui>Edit>Select pattern...}. For example, to select all text files, hit Control+s and enter "*.txt" in the dialog.