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jrb

pfind_rtclick.pet will allow you to right click on a folder and search it and its subfolders with pfind file finder. Simple and fast.

Enjoy, J

esmourguit · Posted: Tue 20 Oct 2009, 03:05 Post subject:

Bonjour à tous,
What was missing in Pfind. Great. Really useful. Thank you very much.
Cordialement Wink

mawebb88 · Joined: 13 Jul 2008 Posts: 245 Location: France nr Lyon

A must. Thanks.

Rgds mike

zigbert · Joined: 29 Mar 2006 Posts: 5245 Location: Valåmoen, Norway

Great!
Will include in the next package.

Sigmund

Sylvander · Posted: Tue 20 Oct 2009, 04:15 Post subject:

1. I've installed it and rebooted, but can't see how to use it.

2. If I r-click on a folder in my Xfe file manager, I see no offer of the choice to search or use Pfind.
I made Xfe my default file manager by installing xfe-default-file-manager-0.1 .

3. If I run ROX, there is "Mount point->Pfind", but I cannot make that find anything; I see no obvious way to specify that which is to be searched for.

4. In Thunar [the original native file manager], there is "Find here...", and I can find things using that. Very Happy

Is this the only one that will/should work with this program?

magerlab · Joined: 08 Jul 2007 Posts: 730

i suggest to add an icon for this link for better look

Sylvander · Posted: Thu 22 Oct 2009, 05:24 Post subject:

Any suggestions for a fix for my problem?

Xfe is the file explorer in which I'd like to use this functionality.

jrb · Posted: Thu 22 Oct 2009, 17:19 Post subject:

Sylvander,
I'm not very familiar with Xfe. I think I tried it a few years ago with debian-lite or some such. Does it have right click functionality? Can you right click on a file and do things with or to it?

Sylvander · Posted: Thu 22 Oct 2009, 18:36 Post subject:

1. " Can you right click on a file and do things with or to it?"
You most certainly can.
Has an extensive right-click "context menu".
It's like the Windows Explorer, but better.
All kinds of features.
Has [as you choose] a folder hierarchy pane plus 1 or 2 file panes.
You can use the hierarchy pane to choose which folders are displayed as panes, then copy or move chosen items [folders/files] from one pane to the other.
Some screenshots and features.

jrb · Posted: Thu 22 Oct 2009, 19:06 Post subject:

Sylvander,
Pfind right click is a script file, /usr/local/bin/pfind.sh. It is very simple:

Sylvander · Posted: Fri 23 Oct 2009, 03:59 Post subject:

Did a bit of searching in the BoxPup file system, but I'm unable to find anything that might lead to a solution.
Since I'm a Puppy & Linux newbie I'll concede defeat. Sad

ICPUG · Joined: 24 Jul 2005 Posts: 1278 Location: UK

Sylvander,

I know nothing about xfe but thought I would try looking for info as an exercise. There appears to be zero howto documentation for xfe - typical! However, if you look here under Configuration Files you will see what files to look at to enable configuring of xfe.

http://roland65.free.fr/xfe/index.php?page=docs

Still doesn't say what can be configured and how to do it but I would look at these configuration files and see if there are any clues for the context menu configuration (if it's possible).

Sylvander · Posted: Fri 23 Oct 2009, 08:56 Post subject:

Read the linked page and did some more searching, but still came up with nothing helpful. Sad

jrb · Posted: Fri 23 Oct 2009, 10:56 Post subject:

Sylvander,
Have you asked on the BoxPup thread?

Which version of BoxPup are you using? I'll download the latest today and have a look.

Sylvander · Posted: Fri 23 Oct 2009, 11:06 Post subject:

1. "Have you asked on the BoxPup thread? "
No, which BoxPup thread?

2. "Which version of BoxPup are you using?"
Version 4.1.3