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Moxfm - a free Motif filemanager
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lars Wirzenius)
Sun Sep 10 16:38:07 1995
Date: Fri, 8 Sep 1995 16:02:20 +0300
From: Lars Wirzenius <wirzeniu@cc.helsinki.fi>
To: linux-announce@vger.rutgers.edu
From: Oliver Mai <mai@x4u2.desy.de>
Subject: Moxfm - a free Motif filemanager
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.announce
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Moxfm is a free OSF/Motif based file and application manager
for generic Unix systems running X11. Moxfm allows you to
browse your directory tree and to copy, move, link and delete
files in an intuitive way by simple drag-and-drop actions.
It provides context-sensitive popup menus. Directory displays
are updated automatically in regular intervals when the
contents of the directory changes.
The integrated application manager provides a kind of shelf on
which you can place your favorite applications, as well as the
files and directories you are currently working with. It also
allows you to access different groups of applications and files.
User-definable file types let you specify a command to be
executed when double-clicking on a file or dropping other files
onto it. Last not least, moxfm can automatically mount and
unmount special devices like floppies as you open and close the
corresponding directories (mount points) or copy files to them.
I have written moxfm using the source code of the excellent
Athena widgets based xfm file manager. Moxfm uses configuration
files with the same format as xfm (except the device
configuration file). The program is not exactly a Motif port
of xfm, but additional features have been added, e.g.
support for multiple application windows.
I have uploaded both the source code and binaries (a.out format,
statically linked with Motif 1.2.4 and libXpm, dynamically
linked with X11R5 libs) to ftp://sunsite.unc.edu/pub/Linux/Incoming,
from where they hopefully will be moved to
/pub/Linux/X11/xutils/managers .
The most recent version of moxfm can always be obtained from
my WWW page http://ips105.desy.de:8765/~mai/moxfm. There you
will find screen snapshots as well.
If you have questions concerning moxfm or problems compiling
or running it, e-mail me.
Have fun,
Oliver Mai
(mai@x4u2.desy.de)
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Oliver Mai, Hamburg university
Visit my WWW home page: http://ips105.desy.de:8765/~mai
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