The dconf-editor is a great utility but it’s very easy to get lost trying to find a value or, speaking from experience, accidentally adjust a setting while mousing around.Īnd if you try it but find it annoying, you can turn it off just as easily too: gsettings set open-folder-on-dnd-hover falseĪnyway, that’s it a simple setting I find very useful - and now you know how to enable it too. You can enable the “open folder on drag and drop hover” using the dconf-editor utility (i.e. Let go of the file to drop it there or keep holding the file and hover over a subfolder to open that one, and so on, like so: Spring loaded folders are a vibe You can move a directory or a file with the same syntax: touch file.txt mkdir foodirectory mv file. Open Nautilus (with icon view enabled) drag a file over a target folder and, et voila, it opens instantly. Pop open a new Terminal window and run: gsettings set open-folder-on-dnd-hover true Is this a preference everyone will want to turn on? No, but if you use Ubuntu and it does sound like something you’d use, it’s dead easy to enable. For a secure data transfer, use SCP or SFTP. Using it I move files/folders into another folder or (more importantly for me, inside of a subfolder inside of that folder) with ease, without ever taking my finger off my mouse button. I regularly and routinely have to “tidy up”, which means moving files into different folders under the pretence of order - hence this feature comes in handy.
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