Dear Joe,
Thank you very much for the response, and I apologize for my slow reply (I set
up this email account to interact with Debian developers, and then I forgot to
check it until now---I shall be more consistent going forward).
I just did a quick Google search on how to discover which file manager I am
using, and nothing usable came up. In lieu of that information, I have Debian
GNU/Linux 12 bookworm with the Cinnamon desktop environment.
I recall looking into this ("quasi extensively") in the past, but to no avail.
I am by no means a sophisticated Linux user: so some of the potential "fixes"
were probably beyond my abilities.
One motivation for bringing up the issue is an attempt to lower the barriers to
entry of layman Linux users (reduce their frustrations) to encourage adoption,
and I saw this particular issue as low-hanging fruit, since the current set-up
seems quite unintuitive (from my perspective, though).
Thanks again for your time.
Chris.
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On Saturday, March 21st, 2026 at 6:26 AM, Joe <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 21 Mar 2026 08:26:06 +0000
> blender505 <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
> >
> > It goes without saying that Debian is amazing software, and I am
> > grateful to all of the developers for their valuable time and
> > dedication to the project.
> >
> > I have been using Debian for about 6 years, and it is my primary
> > operating system.
> >
> > In an effort to "help" with the project, I would like to offer a
> > quick suggestion (since I am sure that others have brought this up
> > before, my message will simply add another voice): When saving a
> > file, the file's name is automatically highlighted in blue, but it is
> > not selected. This is confusing because a "selected" filename is also
> > highlighted in blue, and I often---without thinking---proceed to edit
> > the file's name just to find out that I am actually changing the save
> > location. Two potential remedies would be: (1) do not automatically
> > highlight the file's name in blue (so that our brains do not trick us
> > into thinking the name is selected), or (2) automatically select the
> > file's name from the beginning so that our expectation---which is
> > formed from the blue highlight---is met.
> >
>
> It is the file manager that determines that kind of behaviour, and it
> may well be customisable. The common file managers are Thunar and
> Nautilus, the latter usually identifying itself as 'Files'. The name of
> your file manager and Mr Google may help you find a fix for this, or at
> least whether other people have trouble with it.
>
> --
> Joe
>
>
