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From: Warren Block <wblock@wonkity.com>
To: Dutch Ingraham <stoa@gmx.us>
Subject: Re: Xwindow advise needed
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On Tue, 30 Dec 2014, 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.
>> 
> Is there a way to use the new automount facility, autofs(5), with xfce?

Untested by me, but yes, it should work.