1. First of all: look into the XFolder Global Settings, where you will find a lot of useful levers to make XFolder behave.
  2. For the menu items according to the configuration folders, in order to be able to select a menu entry with the keyboard also, put a tilde character ("~") in front of a certain character in the program object's title. This will underline the following character in the menu entry, allowing you to type this character as a keyboard shortcut when the context menu is displayed. (This is different from the keyboard shortcuts which XFolder adds to open folders.)

    Example: OS/2 ~command window will make "c" a keyboard shortcut in the context menu.

    For this, be sure to check "Suppress ''~'' in window title" in the XFolder Global Settings.

  3. If you wish to execute certain command-line commands which are built into CMD.EXE (such as REN, COPY, DEL, CD), put a program object into the XFolder Configuration Folder. Then specify CMD.EXE in the program object with /C <commands> in the "Parameters" field.

    Example for deleting the folder's whole content: put CMD.EXE in the "Path and filename" field and /C DEL * in the "Parameters" field. This is, of course, just a stupid example and NOT recommended.

  4. For those who know how to program REXX, I have included extra information in the appendices of this documentation, which might be useful to you: If you're not too familiar with REXX, you can copy and modify the ALWSSORT.CMD file in the XFolder directory to test some of the folder settings. Please see the "Related files" page for more.
  5. If you create programs objects which need to be opened several times from different directories (namely for command line objects), be sure to check the "Create new window" flag on the "Window" tab in the object's notebook. Otherwise OS/2 will not start a new window but simply resurface the already opened one.
  6. If you have accidentally deleted the XFolder Configuration Folder, don't worry: XFolder will notify you and automatically create a new, empty one on your desktop or recreate the default configuration, which you may then choose.

    Note that this behavior implies that you MUST have a Configuration Folder somewhere on your system while XFolder is installed. It may be empty, but it must exist.

  7. If you consider your context menus too crowded, you can tell the WPS to omit displaying those menu entries which are only "doubles" to mouse operations ("Copy", "Move", etc.). Moreover, you can now remove certain default menu items individually in the XFolder Global Settings.
  8. The folder content functions are helpful, but can crowd your context menus too much if you declare many folders to be your favorites. On my system, I have created a separate folder called "frequent", which I have declared to be my only favorite folder. In this folder, I can put all those folders which I frequently access, so I only have one context menu entry, but a submenu with all my favorite folders.
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