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Cannot "Drag and Drop" Folders or Files #159
Description
Expected behaviour:
Drag a file/folder icon and drop it onto Terminator to be able to enter the directory path in Terminator's buffer.
Steps to reproduce:
Open terminator in terminal (meta) in order to get the debug output. Then open any file browser and attempt to drag the icon and drop it into Terminator. Get the following error message in the terminal you opened terminator in (still meta).
TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str' Traceback (most recent call last): File "/usr/lib/python3/dist-packages/terminatorlib/terminal.py", line 1122, in on_drag_data_received txt = txt.split('\n')[0] TypeError: a bytes-like object is required, not 'str'
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dugb commentedon Jul 6, 2020
I can not reproduce this using the latest from master.
Looking at the code, terminal.py lines 1142 and 1145 the decoding from str to bytes is being done.
I can reproduce this using terminator from the debian buster repository, version 1.91
What version of terminator are you using?
mattrose commentedon Jul 7, 2020
This was fixed a while back in master. see #54 for fix
dhasial commentedon Jul 17, 2020
Yes thank you, I build from the master instead of using Debian Stable repos and it works!
My only issue with it now is that dragging and dropping a file appends
file://to the beginning of the directory string, which results in Terminator outputting"No such file or directory".I'm unsure if this is on the OS or Terminator's side, but do you know of a fix / way to remove or prevent this behaviour?
mattrose commentedon Jul 17, 2020
hmm, shouldn't be doing that. Lemme check
mattrose commentedon Jul 20, 2020
@Dhamma-valence I was unable to reproduce this. when I drag a file from the Files app in GNOME it just prints out the file name in quotes, not a file url. There is a lot of weird complicated logic around so it's possible that it's not doing the correct the thing in your case. Can you tell me what your desktop environment or window manager is, and what program you're dragging the file from?
im-AMS commentedon Aug 26, 2020
Hey,
I had the same issue of
file://I run manjaro KDE,
I think I have managed to fix it, ill make a pull request, please check it out
Thank you
drag and drop error gnome-terminator#159
drag and drop issue gnome-terminator#159 and suggestion from gnome-teâĶ
drag and drop issue gnome-terminator#159 and suggestion from gnome-teâĶ
dhasial commentedon Aug 29, 2020
I use KDE, with the default Kwin WM on Debian Testing -
Krohnkite Kwin tiling script too but that's likely irrelevant.
I think this might be related to another error I was having with something called KIOExec on KDE but I could be wrong.
It wasn't completing some translation between an HTML link in an app and the process that it was directed to (usually Firefox), and gave a similarly URLish output (though I've since fixed it and forgotten what exactly the output was).
mattrose commentedon Nov 6, 2020
Figured this out. Dolphin sets up the mime type for the selection as
text/x-moz-urlwhereas the GNOME Files program, and others have a mime type astext/plain. Boo.py-terminator: Upgrade to 2.1.0
py-terminator: Upgrade to 2.1.0
py-terminator: Upgrade to 2.1.0
py-terminator: Upgrade to 2.1.0