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From: [e-mail] (DAVID L. JOHNSON)
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux
Subject: Re: File Managers for X
Message-ID: <[e-mail]>
Date: 14 Sep 92 04:29:03 GMT
Organization: Lehigh University
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In article <[e-mail]>, [e-mail] (Michael A. Irons) writes:
>
>    xdtm, where is it?? It's nice to hear about, but it doesn't
>do much good if you don't know where it is.
>
With all due respect to the author (who tried to help me make it work),
xdtm-2.5 does not seem to work under linux (I'll probably be corrected on
this).  It may be possible, but will need serious programming skills (IMHO).
On the other hand, the nifty little desktop manager xfm-1.1 is available
(in source form) from tsx-11.mit.edu.  It compiled easily - the author had some
experience with linux.  It also very nice to use, simple to add icons to the
applications manager, and has the right drag-and-drop actions, both for
executables and for file manipulations.  It's also about 1/15 th the size
of the xdtm binary that kept throwing up on my file system.

Use the prototype initiation file to set up your icons.  You don't need the
$0 $*, jsut the $*, to launch with a dragged-and-dropped file.

The file tree graphic is very convenient.  I recommend it to anyone with a
fast enough machine (it apparantly bogs down SX's and slower 386DX's).


--
Sincerely,

David L. Johnson                    ID:  [e-mail]
Christmas-Saucon Hall #14, rm 211
Department of Mathematics

Lehigh University                   Telephone: [phone] (office)