From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Jan 9 08:34:19 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id IAA27821 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 9 Jan 1995 08:34:19 -0800 Received: from sass165 (sass165.sandia.gov [132.175.109.1]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id IAA27815 for ; Mon, 9 Jan 1995 08:34:18 -0800 Received: from amor.mdl.sandia.gov (amor.mdl.sandia.gov [134.253.20.147]) by sass165 (8.6.8/8.6.6) with ESMTP id JAA21308 for ; Mon, 9 Jan 1995 09:37:51 -0700 Received: (aflundi@localhost) by amor.mdl.sandia.gov (8.6.8/8.6.5) id JAA27991 for hackers@freebsd.org; Mon, 9 Jan 1995 09:33:58 -0700 Message-Id: <199501091633.JAA27991@amor.mdl.sandia.gov> From: aflundi@sandia.gov (Alan F Lundin) Date: Mon, 9 Jan 1995 09:33:58 -0700 In-Reply-To: Peter da Silva "Re: Graphical installations and such..." (Jan 7, 8:17pm) X-Mailer: Mail User's Shell (7.2.4 2/2/92) To: hackers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: Graphical installations and such... Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Jan 7, 8:17pm, Peter da Silva wrote: > Subject: Re: Graphical installations and such... > > > If you wanna build UI > > code, then build File-Manager for X. You would be helping more untrained > > souls with that by far. > > XFM runs quite well on FreeBSD 1.1.5, I don't imagine that > it'd have a problem on 2.x. It's athena-widget based, and > xmkmf was about all I needed to do to get it up. It performs > Program Manager and File Manager duties. I've had it running on 2.0R for my wife for a while now. Peter's right--it's trivial to compile and install, and works well. --alan