Configuring Networks | Configuring 4Pane | The Context Menu |
This is where to configure the bits that don't fit anywhere else.
The first sub-page is for "How many?".
Most of the alterations that 4Pane makes to files can be undone and redone again. Each time it is opened,
4Pane reserves a certain amount of space to hold the data needed to do this. By default this is enough for 10000 items, but remember that it
would immediately be filled by selecting and then deleting all the contents of a directory that contains >9999 files! Change the number here if you wish. This will take effect when 4Pane next opens.
Next, dropdowns. These are used in two places: the Undo/Redo buttons on the main toolbar, and the Back/Forward buttons on the small dir-view
toolbars. To process several items at once, you click the side button with the 'down' arrow and a dropdown page opens containing the first so-many available items.
This is where you can configure how many that is, the default being 15.
The second sub-page is for "How long?".
The first two items concern the transient message dialogs that appear, telling you the result of e.g. extracting an archive. Unless you stop them these automatically
close after a few seconds: 2 seconds if the process succeeded, 5 if it failed (to give you longer to read why). You
can change either of these times here.
Similarly you can change how long statusbar messages last e.g. "3 items copied". By default this is 10 seconds.
The next sub-page is about becoming superuser. Sometimes you'll need administrative privileges e.g. to mount a non-fstab partition. You can do
this by using a gui 'su'-type program, for example gksu, but since v1.0 4Pane can do this 'in-house'.
4Pane should have detected whether you're on a distro that uses sudo (ubuntu) or the commoner su, but if it gets it wrong you can set it here.
You can also choose whether the password is temporarily remembered and, if so, for how long (maximum 1 hour) and whether the countdown is restarted on each use.
Alternatively if you'd prefer to use an external front-end, choose which one here; 4Pane should prevent you selecting any missing from your system.
The last sub-page just contains four buttons, which bring up dialogs for configuring Open, drag'n'drop, the statusbar, and exporting 4Pane's configuration.
Since version 3.0, 4Pane has two ways that it can decide how to open a file, for example when a text file is double-clicked.