Dragon: Eliminate The Need For All GUI File Managers!

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I always enjoy messing around with fun applications like dragon and today I thought I show you how you can basically eliminate any need for a GUI file manager all with just the help of one simple program that adds a drag and drop window that can be opened from any terminal on your Linux system.
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[@user-mh2om6ss1z]

So it's called Dragon because it lets you DRAG files ON a window. Drag-on.

[@francescominnocci]

I actually had not got that lol

[@folksurvival]

Obviously.

[@tireseas]

You're solving a problem I don't actually have, but it's always fascinating to see insights into other people's workflows.

[@BrodieRobertson]

It's always fun to see what you can do with some of these random github projects.

[@Jonathan-dm3pt]

You've become my go-to person for useful tools, I will definitely use this. Your videos are top-tier content (for my own interests). Good stuff!

[@BrodieRobertson]

I appreciate it, I wasn't sure where to take this channel at the start but I like the direction it's going in right now.

[@Jonathan-dm3pt]

@@BrodieRobertson I think you're very good at this kind of video (and the opinion pieces to be honest), I thoroughly enjoy them.

[@BrodieRobertson]

Well that's good to hear because they're my favourite to record.

[@sage5578]

I would still use gui file manager. When it comes to transferring files form usb, a gui file manager is useful for that. I use both gui and terminal file managers.

[@twb0109]

Pcmanfm/Nemo? Idkw nobody likes Nautilus xD, it's actually pretty good and goes well with GNOME (Been playing with GNOME for a while)

[@hermannpaschulke1583]

Dude, where do you find all of these useful apps? :D

[@P3rformula]

once you get momentum, you'll have enough followers who start suggesting you all kinds of cool things. This is for any genre of content really.

[@BrodieRobertson]

This and also forums

[@clockworkpc]

I think there's a whole network farm of Brodies who collective crawl through Github looking for useful software

[@BrodieRobertson]

@@clockworkpc don't tell them my secret

[@MrCorpsy6]

Softwares, not "apps".

[@Newascap]

My boy Brodie going full weeb to bring us this amazing applications.

[@FaithPvP]

I kept flinching thinking he was going to hit me with those giant swinging hands.

[@henninb]

Per your previous video, I have now adapted to using dragon.

[@AnzanHoshinRoshi]

Thank you, Brodie. I use Nautilus so I can easily preview images. I have never dragged and dropped a file because I only need the mouse to web browse.

[@igormamedes]

Really nice, but I' will stick with the clipboard. With xclip you can copy and paste from terminal file manager to whatever you want using "text/uri-list" target

[@matiasdanieltrapagliamansi3109]

you are sharper each video great work keep on !

[@BrodieRobertson]

I've been trying to slow down a bit lately, I look back at my older content and then went too far in the opposite direction in regards to talking speed and I'm trying to bring it back to the middle.

[@a_maxed_out_handle_of_30_chars]

Do you like Shinobu-chan? Because she is your default image to work with in recent videos. Anyways good video :)

[@BrodieRobertson]

I do like Shinobu but she's also just the first anime image in my pictures folder lol

[@srinivasrg5125]

Very very useful. Thank you so much for sharing this.

[@RedBlueProductions1]

would there be a way to warp a file to your cursor instead? • do `warp $file` • file teleports to your cursor, wherever that is, and then it stays in the "drag" state • ...because a release event won't come until you click where you want to drop the file. warp and drop! this behavior is more in line with what tui file managers do

[@elimgarak3597]

That is a noob move. ls is my file manager, that is the real hardcore.

[@BrodieRobertson]

Who needs ls just guess where files exists.

[@whahala555]

@@BrodieRobertson who needs to guess when you can just write you file structure down on paper for quick visual reference.

[@LPFan33]

who needs ls when you can just use tab completion

[@iLiokardo]

Need something like that, because you don't have a command to send a file to a app of your choice. What command is drag-and-drop doing?

[@benjy288]

So when using a terminal file manager how do you know what image you want when you can't see any thumbnails?

[@coompiler9029]

You can use image previews if your terminal supports it

[@sevak2435]

A useful function to be sure, is there a tool that uses the clip board in a similar fashion? I use that at least as often as drag and drop.

[@BrodieRobertson]

If there is I'd like to hear about it.

[@JackReitano]

@@BrodieRobertson You can use xclip -selection clipboard -t image/png -i path/to/image.png, but you need to explicitly tell it the filetype (meaning you'd have to replace type/png with type/jpg for a jpeg, etc) so you'd also need to pull that from the file extension.You can then paste the image into whatever directly from your clipboard. I have a key bound to this in sxiv since it's most useful with pictures and I'd like to see what I'm copying.

[@engageintellect]

Terminal file managers > drag and drop

[@BrodieRobertson]

Why not both

[@michamartyniak9255]

life saver!!!

[@ernstmayer3868]

command not found: dragon-drag-and-drop, although I installed the repo with make install. The target binary is just dragon?

[@BrodieRobertson]

Through the AUR it's dragon-drag-and-drop because there's already a package in the AUR called dragon, the manual installation method will name it dragon

[@ernstmayer3868]

@@BrodieRobertson Thank you!

[@oscarrzga4615]

Is it possible for the terminal detect you are trying to drop something on and open up the window?

[@BrodieRobertson]

There's clearly some way that your browser works it out but I don't know if there's a standalone tool to do so.

[@marcovirtual]

Brodie, are you still using bspwm as your WM in this video?

[@BrodieRobertson]

Yes I am, it's pretty modified at this stage though

[@user-ro1cc8tz6d]

tab tab tab tab tab tab tab tab tab shift+tab shift+tab enter

[@intesral]

i use ranger

[@giabao576]

that's great! any one know how to change open file dialog to a terminal based one?

[@BrodieRobertson]

I know someone worked on a way to do it with Chromium but it's not just a simple switch that would be nice though

[@tylermurphy2231]

maybe in some cases u could u could do a sym link to x gui browser it uses to link to your termknal of choice

[@OveRaDaMaNt]

For me, it's PCManFM

[@magnusanderson6681]

I ran pacman -S dragon but I have pacman run through a dmenu script so I didn't check to see what happened. Then tried to start using it and realized that no, the arch package dragon is a video player that comes with 100MiB of dependencies, its not this thing lmao EDIT: here is github github.com/mwh/dragon

[@BrodieRobertson]

Yeah it's called dragon-drag-and-drop because of that thing

[@dreamlockk7527]

I have another solution... Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V

[@BrodieRobertson]

But don't you want an over engineered minimal solution

[@soulofhogwarts]

It will be much bettet if we able to drag and drop without mouse

[@ichaa3tech]

Ma boiii

[@lechsiz1642]

so annoying that you don't use dates. i need to compare dates between your own videos to see which is newest

[@BrodieRobertson]

?

[@Mojo_DK]

Why do people hate GUIs so much xD

[@twb0109]

You really like KNY ¿Huh? XD

[@BrodieRobertson]

Yes and also I mentioned this to someone else, I just happen to have KNY pictures in my pictures folder. I could have gone into my padoru folder but it's a bit early for that.

[@twb0109]

@@BrodieRobertson Hashire sori yo kaze no yoou ni....

[@PantsYT]

...i just do ls

[@BrodieRobertson]

That works too I guess

[@snailwithumbrella]

I'm not trolling or anything, but if it takes less than 3 seconds to open the gui file manager to drag and drop, why bother with this?

[@BrodieRobertson]

It's more like a proof of concept rather than being a good idea.

[@marc2509]

When you're using a terminal filemanager on a day-to-day basis, you're used to the shortcuts so it might be faster for some people (me included) to not bother with a gui filemanager

[@hoyteternal]

Bruh how do you handle image files without human readable names, e.g. 77012728_p0.jpg, without thumbnails, so you can't even see what you are sending overthe internet. Your very introduction to the video based on assumption that need in thumbnail previews, or gui manipulations are rare. Yet to verify that your gibberish-named files are correct ones, you need a receiving application to be able to show the media, which isn't always the case, or you need a third application to preview your files. Second, GUI file managers can utilize a mouse cursor, which is often much faster than typing "mv this there" etc. Also having few buttons to quickly switch view modes (thumbnails, list, spreadsheet), tabs, splits, and sorting stuff is really useful. If your file manager supports mouse operations, including drag and drop, then why you call it non-GUI? It is really a GUI-sh file manager, with clickable zones and other features, just stylized to draw its contents with ASCII symbols. Which is only a benefit if your machine has really low-tier hardware. Also I could drag-n-drop a picture from a browser into Dolphin and save it. Maybe I am lucky???

[@OG900Aero]

Dragon is very minimal, no features. Vifm is much better.

[@BrodieRobertson]

Dragon isn't intended to replace vifm, they're not even in the same category of applications

[@dougtilaran3496]

Fake Aussie accent ! That kid is Italiano ~ Look at the hand sync

[@admniyeokuyorsun...3044]

Uhm, people that have life maybe ?

[@Xaito]

Dude, why are you making your life artificially hard? You're using software with outdated usability-hell practices from 30 years ago, then tack on workarounds to do - in a cumbersome way - what modern file managers do out of the box.

[@BrodieRobertson]

I like messing around with software, sometimes that software isn't the most convenient option.