linuxgeek: Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Peppermint Linux is neat in many ways

Wednesday, October 30, 2013

Re: [LINUX_Newbies] Peppermint Linux is neat in many ways

On Wed, Oct 30, 2013 at 12:33:09AM -0700, justin_e_bell2000@yahoo.com wrote:
> I tried Peperment , and it has a nice simple menu and installed easily.
>
> However, when I right click on the desktop to create a folder, nothing happens. I tired looking at Google and other search engines and found nothing useable about how to restore the right-click function.
>
> Using File manager to create folders seems slow and cumbersome to me.
>

I was under the impression that Peppermint uses openbox as its window
manager. Openbox doesn't give you the option to right click and create a
directory.

There's always the command line

mkdir <directory_name>, for example

mkdir myfiles

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