From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Sat Aug 16 20:13:26 2014 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [8.8.178.115]) (using TLSv1 with cipher ADH-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 1E6D6F87 for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 20:13:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from smtp-vbr9.xs4all.nl (smtp-vbr9.xs4all.nl [194.109.24.29]) (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 A996E256E for ; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 20:13:25 +0000 (UTC) Received: from slackbox.erewhon.home (slackbox.xs4all.nl [83.162.243.5]) by smtp-vbr9.xs4all.nl (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id s7GKDEFY009221; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 22:13:14 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from rsmith@xs4all.nl) Received: by slackbox.erewhon.home (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 6958912426; Sat, 16 Aug 2014 22:13:14 +0200 (CEST) Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 22:13:14 +0200 From: Roland Smith To: Warren Block Subject: Re: Putting my new FreeBSD 9.3 desktop online .... Message-ID: <20140816201314.GA73102@slackbox.erewhon.home> Mail-Followup-To: Warren Block , Polytropon , Carl Johnson , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "William A. Mahaffey III" References: <20140814072430.5e39c3bc.freebsd@edvax.de> <53ED2189.6020408@hiwaay.net> <53EE14FA.8060601@hiwaay.net> <20140815192413.78634baa.freebsd@edvax.de> <53EE4480.1080803@hiwaay.net> <20140815194438.2a468e5f.freebsd@edvax.de> <53EF4592.9030406@hiwaay.net> <87iolsift1.fsf@elk.localnet> <20140816183110.5878829a.freebsd@edvax.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-sha1; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+" Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: X-GPG-Fingerprint: 1A2B 477F 9970 BA3C 2914 B7CE 1277 EFB0 C321 A725 X-GPG-Key: http://www.xs4all.nl/~rsmith/pubkey.txt X-GPG-Notice: If this message is not signed, don't assume I sent it! User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.23 (2014-03-12) X-Virus-Scanned: by XS4ALL Virus Scanner Cc: Carl Johnson , Polytropon , freebsd-questions@freebsd.org, "William A. Mahaffey III" 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: Sat, 16 Aug 2014 20:13:26 -0000 --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+ Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sat, Aug 16, 2014 at 01:03:07PM -0600, Warren Block wrote: > On Sat, 16 Aug 2014, Polytropon wrote: >=20 > > Why did I abandon Xfce? Because it's not "portable enough" > > anymore. It's a "mostly Linux" desktop environment where the > > attempt of running it on FreeBSD leads to despair - it's not > > trivial to set up anymore, and functionality is lacking. >=20 > I don't understand this. xfce works quite well for me. There is no > automounter, and a few years back, I wrote one. But doing that well is > non-trivial, so I just manually mount things now. sysutils/automount works reasonably well. Although I patched it to use notify-send so I can see that a filesystem has been mounted. Another change that I've made to it is to use the `sync` opti= on on FAT filesystems. Roland --=20 R.F.Smith http://rsmith.home.xs4all.nl/ [plain text _non-HTML_ PGP/GnuPG encrypted/signed email much appreciated] pgp: 5753 3324 1661 B0FE 8D93 FCED 40F6 D5DC A38A 33E0 (keyID: A38A33E0) --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+ Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2 iQIcBAEBAgAGBQJT77taAAoJEED21dyjijPgE3AP/0Dqk0eyeZaz0Q9jPYr42sj/ qErW0/wGAaSpaklExQosNRwCpOmtVjsVQlrvzYOCCvifJxbsSwe0bZml6lyz6BNz KKE6RoZTpPKuPEpYHyh56z6ZJ0ZPVf5JamZ1K2+t3WpoTcFewws+IrtjJm7He+2x S6HjYqccr+ioEjyHwudeUiisDrNuc7Y8xCgImnxF9+KsLFYqsPQktCPDHiAD06eY zdyao9eXH9bUarJqnFzPgjRyEeSz7/3tSwM5vxQWZLLEJ6adwidYkyFFl0wmzA0A IImoiGKgty08xjVnFXeYTPZCK+JEAnX1dHVNimlR4ptSEsVWUI6oPaO6s6x7bINk n4WMVL/9qngPLGqCRqCZPxiGB5EpAXR4n9JgVdU2hgZ+sS875+JMK/hpSlrceYGs 9WJQ4YlJ3b0hKiIG1XLGMvPYMAtiqh4GgYqwXylV49PSh5w6/ZmNaD9qqeaNetQz yUePZnWvBdb4xgLgLgDMk7oBqhr1T10df2yQ0nOGjdEEEm2Qo7elNDjYuoS+hanI HtC1H4r4+sLKbRjAotzM5ZRrXBfaFU8SHjkNJrEsCetBQbgg99wDRqtciaVn6NIP w67UPxsp/Jybe9jGO9arEuQugyAdsZAjyWZD2grKpHnPbuZfWcNfXDKJ2ioJe0hg Drq4hlC8KhQ47gssGTYS =ursl -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --mYCpIKhGyMATD0i+--