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Working with Files and Directories

You've learned to make your way around the file system now; it's time to get to work. To open, copy, cut, move, or otherwise operate on files you see in the file manager, you use the context menu—a menu that shows all the things that you can do to the file in question.

To show the context menu for a given file, right-click the file's icon (position your cursor over the icon and click the button on the right of the mouse or trackball). The context menu often changes from file to file because it always displays only the actions that you can perform on the file you clicked; if you right-click a text file, for example, you see options associated with text files and the text editor. To see a context menu in action, ...