From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Sep 8 17:54:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (ha1.rdc1.sfba.home.com [24.0.0.66]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id B0C7515C35 for ; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 17:53:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mwakers@home.com) Received: from c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com ([24.5.221.231]) by mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com (InterMail v4.01.01.00 201-229-111) with SMTP id <19990909005326.KKKO21497.mail.rdc1.sfba.home.com@c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com>; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 17:53:26 -0700 Received: by c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com with Microsoft Mail id <01BEFA23.7CC70650@c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com>; Wed, 8 Sep 1999 17:56:33 -0700 Message-ID: <01BEFA23.7CC70650@c67050-a.plstn1.sfba.home.com> From: "Michael W. Akers" To: "'dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au'" Cc: "freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG" Subject: RE: XFCE Date: Wed, 8 Sep 1999 17:56:32 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Doug, Your using hieroglyphics? D'ya want 'a trade, I'm using ancient Celtic = runes, or at least that's what they look like. :P As for Xfce and mount = tool, I'm afraid that Sun Solaris has spoiled the living hell out of a = lot of us, your going to have to create your own. But, it's not all that = hard. If you want I can email you the scripts and instructions on = setting up the buttons to execute them.=20 Let me know if you're interested. Mike Akers ---------- From: dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au [SMTP:dougy@gargoyle.apana.org.au] Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 3:52 PM To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG; mwakers@home.com Subject: Re: XFCE Is there any sort of "automount" facility you've found for Xfce so that = one can use CD's & floppies without having to resort to the = "traditional" way of opening an Xterm and spending the rest of the day = trying to figure out exactly what heiroglyphics to type ?? The screen = dump doesn't show one but then its not normally visible in CDE anyway = like it is in KDE, and I can't locate anything in the docs yet. The = "mount" stuff is one of the worst "features" in regular *nix" and = applications like the CDE one are essential if regular users are ever = gonna come to grips with *nix ----- Original Message -----=20 From: Michael W. Akers To: Sent: Wednesday, September 08, 1999 5:16 PM Subject: RE: XFCE > Doug, > So far ( 4 months ) and NO problems, extremely fast. Xfce is written = to be small and efficient. I am VERY pleased with the product.=20 > As for phone calls, I am a Scots, Irish, and German mix. Phone calls = can be extremely long ('s why I make so much money, I talk too much!) > (*v^) > Michael Akers >=20 >=20 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message