Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 22:13:14 +0200 From: Roland Smith <rsmith@xs4all.nl> To: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com> Cc: Carl Johnson <carlj@peak.org>, Polytropon <freebsd@edvax.de>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net> Subject: Re: Putting my new FreeBSD 9.3 desktop online .... Message-ID: <20140816201314.GA73102@slackbox.erewhon.home> In-Reply-To: <alpine.BSF.2.11.1408161258180.13324@wonkity.com> References: <20140814072430.5e39c3bc.freebsd@edvax.de> <53ED2189.6020408@hiwaay.net> <53EE14FA.8060601@hiwaay.net> <20140815192413.78634baa.freebsd@edvax.de> <53EE4480.1080803@hiwaay.net> <20140815194438.2a468e5f.freebsd@edvax.de> <53EF4592.9030406@hiwaay.net> <87iolsift1.fsf@elk.localnet> <20140816183110.5878829a.freebsd@edvax.de> <alpine.BSF.2.11.1408161258180.13324@wonkity.com>
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--mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 01:03:07PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 16 Aug 2014, Polytropon wrote: >=20 > > Why did I abandon Xfce? Because it's not "portable enough" > > anymore. It's a "mostly Linux" desktop environment where the > > attempt of running it on FreeBSD leads to despair - it's not > > trivial to set up anymore, and functionality is lacking. >=20 > I don't understand this. xfce works quite well for me. There is no > automounter, and a few years back, I wrote one. But doing that well is > non-trivial, so I just manually mount things now. sysutils/automount works reasonably well. Although I patched it to use notify-send so I can see that a filesystem has been mounted. Another change that I've made to it is to use the `sync` opti= on on FAT filesystems. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://rsmith.home.xs4all.nl/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 5753 3324 1661 B0FE 8D93 FCED 40F6 D5DC A38A 33E0 (keyID: A38A33E0) --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJT77taAAoJEED21dyjijPgE3AP/0Dqk0eyeZaz0Q9jPYr42sj/ qErW0/wGAaSpaklExQosNRwCpOmtVjsVQlrvzYOCCvifJxbsSwe0bZml6lyz6BNz KKE6RoZTpPKuPEpYHyh56z6ZJ0ZPVf5JamZ1K2+t3WpoTcFewws+IrtjJm7He+2x S6HjYqccr+ioEjyHwudeUiisDrNuc7Y8xCgImnxF9+KsLFYqsPQktCPDHiAD06eY zdyao9eXH9bUarJqnFzPgjRyEeSz7/3tSwM5vxQWZLLEJ6adwidYkyFFl0wmzA0A IImoiGKgty08xjVnFXeYTPZCK+JEAnX1dHVNimlR4ptSEsVWUI6oPaO6s6x7bINk n4WMVL/9qngPLGqCRqCZPxiGB5EpAXR4n9JgVdU2hgZ+sS875+JMK/hpSlrceYGs 9WJQ4YlJ3b0hKiIG1XLGMvPYMAtiqh4GgYqwXylV49PSh5w6/ZmNaD9qqeaNetQz yUePZnWvBdb4xgLgLgDMk7oBqhr1T10df2yQ0nOGjdEEEm2Qo7elNDjYuoS+hanI HtC1H4r4+sLKbRjAotzM5ZRrXBfaFU8SHjkNJrEsCetBQbgg99wDRqtciaVn6NIP w67UPxsp/Jybe9jGO9arEuQugyAdsZAjyWZD2grKpHnPbuZfWcNfXDKJ2ioJe0hg Drq4hlC8KhQ47gssGTYS =ursl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+--
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