From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Feb 15 19:08:51 2012 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5A6AF106564A for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:08:51 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from peo@intersonic.se) Received: from neonpark.inter-sonic.com (neonpark.inter-sonic.com [212.247.8.98]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1A6F28FC13 for ; Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:08:50 +0000 (UTC) X-Virus-Scanned: amavisd-new at BSDLabs AB Message-ID: <4F3C02BC.4040206@intersonic.se> Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 20:08:44 +0100 From: Per olof Ljungmark Organization: Intersonic AB User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; FreeBSD i386; rv:9.0) Gecko/20120129 Thunderbird/9.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Waitman Gobble References: <4F3BF1FD.9000808@intersonic.se> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: File manager for Xfce X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2012 19:08:51 -0000 On 02/15/12 19:54, Waitman Gobble wrote: > > On Feb 15, 2012 9:58 AM, "Per olof Ljungmark" > wrote: >> >> A long time KDE3 user but now thinking of Xfce instead as KDE4 is not >> really my way of doing it. >> >> One of the things I've found productive in KDE is the Konqerour file >> manager, is there anything similar available as a separate app to run >> under Xfce? >> >> In particular, it should accept URI's like sftp://, smb:// etcetra and >> looking at Thunar it does not seem to have this capability? >> >> I suppose I could run Konqerour as an app but that would require buiding >> a lot of KDE3 as well. >> >> Suggestions welcome, thanks! >> _______________________________________________ >> 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 > " > > hi, > > I like xfce4, compact and fast on my netbook. I haven't had issues on > FreeBSD 10.0-CURRENT. Thunar is good, have not tried using smb:// etc > but I will see what happens and let you know. The WebKit based browser > in the project is pretty good too. If you are running FreeBSD on a > desktop you might want more apps and features that come with KDE or Gnome. > > Check out the xfce.org site to see what you get ;-) > > Waitman Gobble > San Jose California USA > Hmmm, looking at the Xfce website it looks as perhaps problem solved: "Thunar now has optional support for GVFS which will allow you to browse remote shares using Thunar: FTP, Windows Shares, WebDav and SSH servers..." If this works all is fine.