01micko wrote:
On Mar 1, 9:35 am, Bill Davidsen <[email protected]> wrote:
01micko wrote:
Hi all
I am far from an experienced linux user, however I can find my way
around a linux system.
I use Puppy Linux which uses Seamonkey as the default browser.
Now, in Seamonkey-1.x series I (and all other Puppy users) could drag
a link or an image from the browser to a directory and wget would
automatically start and download the file. Nice feature.
In all seamonkey-2.x series so far this option seems not possible. I
have tried static builds, official mozilla builds and have compiled
seamonkey myself (several times) and still can not get this
functionality. Is there a ./configure option to enable this? If there
is I would have thought it would be the default.
Any help will be appreciated.
Puppy must be doing something special, because the term "drag a link or an image
from the browser to a directory" doesn't connect with any behavior I've seen,
there being no directory anywhere in sight.
As far as the action goes, I assume you would right click and use either "save
image" or "save link target" to get the pop-up menu and select a destination.
Other than installing Puppy in a VM I can't imagine what you are actually doing.
--
Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
Thanks Bill for reply.
Ever since I have been using Puppy it has been the default behaviour
to drag and drop files from Seamonkey-1.1x to an oen folder in Rox-
Filer, the file manager used in puppy. Barry Kauler, the creator of
Puppy actually mentioned his dislike of Seamonkey-2.x on his blog
because this is not possible any more.
The procedure is very basic, just like dragging one file from one
window to another. It works for images or links. Immediately wget
starts and downloads the file to the location you dragged. I hope that
clarifies what myself and many Puppy users are actually doing.
Thanks for clarifying that, most Linux users have no visible directories to
which anything might be dragged. Perhaps someone will write an extension for
that, although I confess that I have no objection to the right click method.
I haven't used Seamonkey 1.1x in another distro so I don't know if it
works in other distros. It might well be a Rox-Filer feature,
incompatible with Seamonkey-2.x.
Cheers
--
Bill Davidsen <[email protected]>
"We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot
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