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Date:      Tue, 30 Dec 2014 09:37:27 -0600
From:      "William A. Mahaffey III" <wam@hiwaay.net>
To:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Xwindow advise needed
Message-ID:  <54A2C6B7.7070904@hiwaay.net>
In-Reply-To: <54A298A0.4060702@gmx.us>
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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.
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> Is there a way to use the new automount facility, autofs(5), with xfce?
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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 ....

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	William A. Mahaffey III

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