Sorry maybe I am stupid but I don´t know how to select several files in File Manager or several mails in Pantheon Mail
1 Answer
In Files, there are several ways to do this. Assuming you are using the default grid view you can:
With the mouse
- Select each item by clicking on the tick emblem that appears when you hover over it or
- Hold down the
<Ctrl>
key and click anywhere on each item you want to select or - Hold down the
<Shift>
key and click anywhere on the first and last item you want to select. All items in a linear sequence between these two items will also be selected or - Press and hold down the primary button over whitespace and drag the pointer to create a selection rectangle (rubberband). Any item this includes will be selected.
With the keyboard alone you can
- With the arrow keys. move the cursor to the first item to select. Hold down the
<Shift>
key and move the cursor to the last item to select - all items in between in a linear sequence will be selected or - Move the cursor to the first item to selected. Hold down the
<Ctrl>
and<Alt>
keys. Move the cursor to the next item to select. Press+
or=
to select that item. You can also deselect items in the same way by pressing the-
key. Or - You can select all items with the shortcut
<Ctrl>A
or - You can invert any existing selection with the shortcut
<Ctrl><Shift>A
These methods work pretty much the same in the other views except for rubberbanding you click on the filename or any other column (not the icon) to commence.
I do not know about Mail - I do not use it but some of these methods might work.