I am unable to directly navigate the folders on my desktop environment using only the keyboard. Searching over internet, I couldn't find a shortcut to select a folder on the desktop (Example Recycle bin) and even after using the mouse to highlight/select on folder, I am unable to toggle between folders using the arrow keys or access the software pinned on the dock.
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In Ubuntu 20.04, on the desktop, there is a number of actions I wish I could do, such as, by order of importance :  use keyboard shortcuts such as select all, copy / paste. use drag &amp; drop with icons deactivate the &quot;mouse over&quot; highlight, and restrict the clicking area to only the icon, not the surrounding square  To put it simply, I'd like to have the exact same features as offered by the desktop of Ubuntu 18.04 (probably related to a specific version of GNOME, and not Ubuntu itself). Am I missing something obvious here? I actually see no reason why those actions are removed or deactivated on the desktop, since they all work in any Nautilus window.
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I want to organize my Windows desktop icons by categories. Multimedia, system tools, editors, etc. I need to define rectangular areas of the desktop, then place the shortcut icons. They would stay locked into place forever in the category until I moved them. The standard windows desktop won't do this, and folders aren't going to do what I want either.   How can I set this up on my desktop on Windows?
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I would like my Dock to show only the windows of the current workspace. Especially in the little preview window. I find it very confusing to jump around workspaces when trying to find the right window.
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When i open windows explorer, I usually navigate it with keyboard most of the time. My biggest annoyance is when I open a folder, and in it I want to open the first folder or file in the list. For this, I have to press the down arrow key, and the up arrow to get the focus on that file/folder. How could I make Explorer, automatically focus on the first file, so once i open the folder, I can just click enter and it opens?
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How can a user determine the path to an application being showed in launcher?  This is meant for non-programmers or experts, so terminal commands are not really suited for them. Why: we need to make our users able to drag files/folders on our applications, a standard OS feature entirely missing in Ubuntu.
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How can I add a folder to the launcher for quick access to it. In this particular case I wish to drag it to the launcher.
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There is some behavior I can't understand in the Unity Desktop.   Open nautilus via. clicking in the launcher onto the home-button Navigate to for example the windows-partition in nautilus Minimize nautilus Click on nautilus in the launcher doesn't open the nautilus with windows-partition, instead it opens a new window with the home folder.   Is there a workaround for this strange behavior?  Regards, Arthur
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I am rookie in Mac and I came from Ubuntu  On my previous Dell laptop if I needed to mark some part of text in order to copy or delete it I just made one short touch on touchpad and immediately second touch (not click) and second touch I keep my finger on touchpad and than I can just move mouse and mark text.  or for example how I deleted files:  I have a file on desktop I need to trash it. I put mouse on the file make one short touch and immediately second touch and keep touch on file and now I am able to move file to trash on somewhere on the desktop.  But with mac touchpad I need make click (not just touch) and keep click with one finger and another finger I can move the file somewhere I need. Just remember how you move you file on the desktop, you use two fingers for this.  I hope I describe my problem clearly but feel free to ask  Question is : if there is some settings how to change behavior of touch click?
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My desktop (not the /home/user/Desktop folder) shows the contents of my /home/user folder. I don't know how I have done it and can I have some help on undoing it? The /home/user/Desktop folder just contains my desktop files which do not appear on my desktop.
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I've googled quite a bit but nothing I've found works. I just want to display the Trash, Home folder, Computer etc icons on my Desktop in Ubuntu.  The closest I've come is installing dconf-tools, running it, going to org -&gt; gnome -&gt; desktop -&gt; background and checking show-desktop-icons then org -&gt; gnome -&gt; nautilus -&gt; desktop and checking the icons I want to show.  Nothing happens.  I've also tried looking in compizconfig-settings-manager and gconf-editor but can't find anything there.  Ideas?
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As of now, my desktop has begun showing the contents of my home folder (~) instead of the contents of ~/desktop. I must have changed something, but I have no idea what, or what I was doing exactly when it happened.  How do I re-point gnome to the right folder?  I'm running Ubuntu 11.04.
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I would like to switch between windows using the scroll wheel of the mouse over each app icon in Ubuntu dock, as we could do in Unity, but apparently this doesn't work in Ubuntu 17.10. Is there a way to enable it?   Related:
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I created a shortcut via "make link" option. When I enter to this shortcut's folder I can't see any folders above it so I can't easily navigate to them.  Is there a way to go one folder up in the GUI? Maybe a hotkey? (Can't do cd .. this time ^__^ ).      In Windows for example I am indeed able to navigate in the way I describe, here is a Win10 image that explains it:
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Happen to me recently  All the pinned folder malfunction when clicked. I got a message saying that folders doesn't exist (even though they exist)  Also I can't delete those folders from the explorer pins    For archive:  I got a much better description of what the problem is (and the solution) here:
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I am using a MacBook Pro with Mac OS X 10.5. Is there a similar function to "show desktop" (shortcut is WIN+D) on a Mac?   It should hide all applications and show a clean desktop.
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I was wondering if there was any was I could right click inside any instance of a "Finder" window such that I have an option that says "Open Terminal Here". It would be really helpful.
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I just installed Ubuntu 17.10 today, and noticed that a lot of desktop environment has now changed from Ubuntu 17.04.  I'm just wondering if there is a way to change the the setting of those desktop effect for example, Change the speed of the app drawer to appear when you click it.