Drag and drop into Konsole
by Jacob on Feb.02, 2007, under Technical
I found a very cool thing today. I use KDE on Linux. One of the things I like best about KDE is that it supports psudo- filesystems such as fish, which allows you to access a remote filesystem over ssh. I wanted to copy a file that was on a remote system into a local directory. Without thinking, I did the mouse drag-and-drop action to move the file. Except that I dropped the file into Konsole, the KDE terminal program. A popup menu appeared with several options, one of which was ‘cp’ which I selected. The result was that the file was copied from the remote server to the current working directory in my KDE terminal. My terminal showed that it had run a command in order to copy the file, which was:
kfmclient copy ‘fish://username@remoteserver.com/tmp/filename’ .
This is extremely cool, and I’m definately going to have to use it a little bit more often.
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March 24th, 2007 on 12:18 pm
That, my friend, is actually pretty cool. I didn’t realize it did that, and will have to try it myself. Those fine fellows have thought of nearly everything, eh?