[101695] in RedHat Linux List
RE: X File Managers?
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bruce Richardson)
Sat Nov 28 16:38:54 1998
From: Bruce Richardson <brichardson@lineone.net>
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Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 21:30:51 -0000
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Lane Lester wrote:
>Well, Midnight Commander doesn't run in my new install of RH 5.2 (my
>first experience with Linux), and I find xfm to be too primitive to be
>acceptable... at least, I =hope= I don't have to accept it. Are there
>any other X file managers available?
The Installation Guide for RH 5.1 says 'the tk version of Midnight Commander is not yet
finished' and that somes it up. In terms of presentation, if not range of features, I find xfm
is _less_ primitive and certainly easier to use. Also, it does drag and drop - a rare beast in
standard X.
>And as long as I'm using xfm, I might ask another question: somehow
>the dir_icon and file_icon icons have disappeared (although they were
>there before), and all I have is the folder_icon (I guess that's what
>it's called). Is there a way to restore the lost icons?
xfm gets confused in 8 bit displays - maybe other apps have poached the colours it needs
(AfterStep is particularly prone to this as it uses most of the available colours for its logo).
It performs perfectly in 16 bit.
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