From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Tue Dec 30 15:31:15 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:1900:2254:206a::19:1]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher AECDH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 0632C686 for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:31:15 +0000 (UTC) Received: from fly.hiwaay.net (fly.hiwaay.net [216.180.54.1]) (using TLSv1 with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (Client did not present a certificate) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id C52FC1DB1 for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:31:14 +0000 (UTC) Received: from kabini1.local (rbn1-216-180-76-226.adsl.hiwaay.net [216.180.76.226]) (authenticated bits=0) by fly.hiwaay.net (8.13.8/8.13.8/fly) with ESMTP id sBUFVDpX015985 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES128-SHA bits=128 verify=NO) for ; Tue, 30 Dec 2014 09:31:13 -0600 Message-ID: <54A2C6B7.7070904@hiwaay.net> Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 09:37:27 -0600 From: "William A. Mahaffey III" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD amd64; rv:31.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/31.3.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Xwindow advise needed References: <55358.128.135.70.2.1419874589.squirrel@cosmo.uchicago.edu> <20141229235045.b8156cdf.freebsd@edvax.de> <54A298A0.4060702@gmx.us> In-Reply-To: <54A298A0.4060702@gmx.us> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.18-1 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2014 15:31:15 -0000 On 12/30/14 06:20, Dutch Ingraham wrote: > On 12/29/14 22:25, Warren Block wrote: >> I use xfce. The only thing that does not work on FreeBSD, as far as I >> know, is automounting. There are other ways to do that. I just >> manually mount stuff. Otherwise, xfce has the standard desktop features >> without being resource-hungry or having a huge list of dependencies. >> _______________________________________________ >> freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list >> http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions >> To unsubscribe, send any mail to >> "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >> > Is there a way to use the new automount facility, autofs(5), with xfce? > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions > To unsubscribe, send any mail to > "freebsd-questions-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" > You can issue commands that cause an automount from the shell CLI, that's what I do. I don't know how to (or if it's possible to) cause an automount from within the XFCE desktop .... $0.02 only .... -- William A. Mahaffey III ---------------------------------------------------------------------- "The M1 Garand is without doubt the finest implement of war ever devised by man." -- Gen. George S. Patton Jr.