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Date:      Tue, 11 Dec 2007 17:39:09 -0500
From:      Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
To:        "Aryeh M. Friedman" <aryeh.friedman@gmail.com>, "freebsd-questions@freebsd.org" <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Jerry McAllister <jerrymc@msu.edu>
Subject:   Re: looking for ideas: creating a data partition for a dual boot system
Message-ID:  <20071211223909.GB6983@gizmo.acns.msu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20071211213320.GA77610@slackbox.xs4all.nl>
References:  <bef9a7920712111243s7671ebcdtc98d64a08e629ff7@mail.gmail.com> <20071211211322.GB76488@slackbox.xs4all.nl> <475EFED2.3090502@gmail.com> <20071211213320.GA77610@slackbox.xs4all.nl>

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On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 10:33:20PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 04:19:14PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
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> > 
> > >> 2. Share the same Desktop folder (I think if #1 is solved this is
> > >> automatic)
> > >
> > > Maybe, but the Desktop folder would be pretty much useless for
> > > FreeBSD. Maybe there is an X window manager that could do something
> > >  usefull with it, but I doubt it. And the icons and stuff would
> > > point to windows programs/drives anyway.
> > 
> > Every x desktop manager calls it ~/Desktop
> 
> What doe you mean by "desktop manager"? If you mean window manager, it
> is definitely not true. For instance, fvwm2 uses ~/.fvwm/config.
> 
> If you mean desktop environments, it is also not true. According to
> their respective documentations, KDE uses ~/.kde be default, and Gnome
> uses ~/.gconf, ~/.gnome2 and ~/.local/share.

I think he means his MS-Win desktop - not one in FreeBSD, but some
other posters seem to be drifting from that.

////jerry

 
> 
> Roland
> -- 
> R.F.Smith                                   http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/
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