[Enhancement] Allow Ctrl+insert and Shift+insert to work for copying & pasting files and not just text (and perhaps Alt+insert for "cut" as well?)
(this was tested on live sessions of both Mint 21 beta Xfce and Manjaro 21.3.5 Xfce, the former running Thunar v4.16.10 and the latter v4.16.11)
Simply put, when a file is highlighted, pressing Ctrl+insert
on your keyboard does not copy the file in Thunar. Similarly, if you had previously copied a file in some manner, pressing Shift+insert
on your keyboard does not paste the file itself in Thunar.
Steps to reproduce the behavior:
- boot your Xfce distro of choice (whether live or installed)
- open Thunar
- locate any file or folder you want to copy and highlight it
- press
Ctrl+insert
on your keyboard - in Thunar, go to the folder you want to paste it to and try to do a right-click -> paste
- observe how "paste" is greyed out in the context menu
- locate a file or folder with a different file name that you want to copy and right-click on it -> copy
- in Thunar, go to the folder you want to paste it to and press
Shift+insert
on your keyboard - observe how no file will be pasted into your currently-viewed folder
- however, if you now open a text editior (e.g. mousepad) and do a Shift+Insert, it will actually paste the location of the file that you copied from step 7
I would expect that, much like with text, Ctrl+insert
would behave the same as Ctrl+c
for copying files and Shift+insert
would behave the same as Ctrl+v
for pasting files.
Additionally, I find it interesting that no standard (at least that I know of) seems to exist for a "Cut" keyboard shortcut that uses the 'insert' key - I don't suppose that Alt+insert could work for a "Cut" option for both files and text as well whereby Alt+insert
could behave the same as Ctrl+x
?
I will note that the current behavior is theoretically an intentional design choice. That being said, if you do a Ctrl+v
for step 10 instead, you will end up with the exact same result which has me question the benefit of making Ctrl+insert
and Shift+insert
basically only work for copying & pasting text