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Just to get a better picture of your current situation: could it be that you uninstalled Thunar?
If so, you may have (unintentionally) removed xfdesktop4 ... that would also explain the failure to bring up the right-click desktop dialogue.


Thanks - removing Thunar was one of the things I ...

Thunar

The drag/drop operation performs a move when the source and target folders are on the same partition but it results in a copy when the source and target are on different partitions.


Thanks for the explanation - now I understand the "behavior" better! I finally decided to go with ...

Just to get a better picture of your current situation: could it be that you uninstalled Thunar?
If so, you may have (unintentionally) removed xfdesktop4 ... that would also explain the failure to bring up the right-click desktop dialogue.


Thanks - removing Thunar was one of the things I tried ...

Hi, so. first off the Desktop IS a folder (almost everything is in linux )

Yup- I get it, but I've never seen this particular behavior in different DE's - Cinnamon, KDE, etc.

"There are quite a few different FM's that can work, thunar is native to xfce and if you drag and drop a file, even into ...

Newbie problem - I didn't like the Thunar behavior, (paste into folder, rather than intuitive drag and drop between folders), so I started investigating other FM. I liked PCManFM much better, and installed it for use, but then I noticed that the "Desktop" folder was really a folder (?!?), and I no ...

Morning, on a 500GB drive, I only used so far 36GB. I permanently deleted some files using the root option menu with Dolphin and was unsuccessful using TestDisk, Is there another recommended utility for this system to be able to recover or their just gone forever?


"Never say never", but with ...

You do not see this.
https://i.postimg.cc/F7jHztm5/2025-04-27-08-09-35-forum-mxlinux-org-64ddf69623df.jpg


I saw it only after you were tagged by another admin (Eadwine Rose) - I honestly didn't see it before then, which is why I added the follow-up question - it made me think that someone ...

How did you do that? Thanks!

Hi Folks,

Forum newbie here. I currently use Vivaldi as my web browser, but I've tested this issue on every "major" browser available in MX.

I have seen many notes, reminding users to check the box at the top right hand of the post which has solved an issue; however, no matter which browser I use ...

Thanks! The repos in the Northeast were mirrors, and didn't update quickly - Aalborg, Denmark worked fine. I decided to go with SLC for the future.