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A small wrapper for your default file manager (Caja, Nautilus, Dolphin, Thunar, etc.) that lets you drag-and-drop only specified files (via a temporary folder with symlinks), while still opening real folders normally.

• Opens real directories in your default file manager unchanged.
• For file arguments, creates a temporary folder, symlinks only those files into it, opens that folder—so you can drag-and-drop just those items without other clutter.
• Auto-detects your system’s default file manager (xdg-mime query default inode/directory) and installs itself under that name.

curl -sSL https://github.com/YuruiHong/fm-drag/raw/main/install.sh | sudo bash

You can now call e.g. caja, nautilus, dolphin, … with both folders and files as arguments.

# Open real folder normally
caja ~/Documents

# Open only specific files in a temp folder for clean drag-and-drop
caja ~/Pictures/photo1.jpg ~/Documents/report.pdf

Behind the scenes, fm-drag will:

1. Detect which args are directories → open them directly.
2. For files → make a temp folder in $XDG_RUNTIME_DIR (fallback /tmp), symlink each file, open that folder.
3. Wait for its window to close, then clean up the temp folder automatically.

MIT © Yurui Hong