If I click, and hold click, on a picture on my browser and drag it to the file manager it takes quite a bit to turn the icon into a green+ that tells me I can release to save the picture.
The installation is fresh, just a couple of days, during which I’ve been trying to figure out if there was some kind of timer option somewhere. If there is, apologies, I couldn’t find it. I am also new to xfce.
Should it be useful, here’s some extra info on my system from neofetch.
I’m not the smartest, there’s probably more I could show but I don’t know what, I’m sorry.
“You can just right click and save as” is what some of my friends told me, but I occasionally open a ton of pictures and I have to sort them in folders. If I sort them as I save them it takes less time than right click and save one by one and then sort them.
Are these file transfers over separate SSDs? If you are copying a file from one folder to another folder on the same SSD, it should be close to instantaneous. Because you really aren’t copying the file, the file itself stays where it is on the SSD, just the information of where the file is located in the folder hierarchy is changed.
If you are copying a file from one storage device to another storage device, the entire file (every single byte) is copied. If the file is large this can cause a delay.
This may not be what is causing your delays, but take the above into consideration.
I’m explaining myself poorly maybe.
It’s not about how long it take to save a picture.
It’s about how long it takes to begin the file transfer.
Maybe I should make a video showing what I mean.
But, if you open your browser and drag a picture from it over to a folder on thunar the icon will change from whatever symbol your cursor has when you drag (with my theme a hand) to another icon, in my case a green plus symbol.
My issue is, it takes a long time before it turns to the green +, and for as long as it’s just a hand I can’t drop the picture.
This happens on any drive I have.
I also have a permanently installed EndeavourOS with Xfce running here. I use Chrome as a browser there and it works very well except that the image is just saved in jpeg.
If I use an unconfigured Firefox it wants to create a shortcut.
So first of all there is a different behavior.
How to change the behavior I would also have to find out first because I always work with the right-click menu.