Re: Program to dole out jpg's to subdirctories, card-dealing style.

Eli the Bearded <*@eli.users.panix.com> wrote at 03:41 this Sunday (GMT):

In comp.os.linux.misc, Lawrence D'Oliveiro  <ldo@nz.invalid> wrote:

On Sat, 28 Jun 2025 14:07:22 GMT, Charlie Gibbs wrote:

I refuse to use drag-and-drop.  It's too dangerous, even for experienced
users.  One slip of the finger on the mouse button you're dragging, and
it's time for
$ find ~ -print | grep <myfilename>

>
Valid, but I'd probably go with:
>
     find ~ -name \*myfilename\*
>
I don't use drag-n-drop because I don't use any file manager I can drag
from.

There's a handy program I use sometimes called dragon-drop that lets you
spawn a simple file window to drag onto programs as needed. Very useful
for scripts.

In my case, it would just end up on the desktop. (What? You don't have an
entire virtual desktop dedicated to things like your email client?)

>
Nope. Why would I need a virtual desktop for mailx? I don't have a
"desktop" I have a root window blissfully free of icons. If only I could
convince XDG aware programs that "Desktop" is not a place.
>
$ grep -i desktop ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs
XDG_DESKTOP_DIR="$HOME/.empty"
$ (cd ; du .empty)
4       .empty
$
>
Elijah
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does a lot of command line file management on his phone, too

Do you use xscreensaver to set the root window?
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