cbagger01
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Posted: Mar. 06 2005,06:58 |
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I created the original Rox Filer dsl extension and I like the look and feel of the product. It is especially nice to use it as a thumbnail / image browser. However, I find emelfm to be a more useful "get down to business" file manager.
What you may not know is that the Rox Filer extension also has the built-in drag-n-drop desktop icon management functions of the "Rox Desktop".
In order to use this function, you need to do the following:
1) Turn off the existing desktop icons or simply kill the xtdesk process.
2) Go to the Rox user manual and read up on the "pinboard" functionality and how it works.
3) Open an xterminal window and manually start up rox with the pinboard command line parameter. You can place a "&" at the end of the command if you want to put the process into the background and close your xterminal or use it for other purposes.
4) Start dragging some icons on to your desktop from the file manager window.
5) If you like what you see, add the rox command to your .xinitrc and back up your settings folders.
I don't see Rox becoming part of the main DSL base because it takes up more space than the existing applications (xtdesktop, xzgv, emelfm) but it is still a nice program.
But since we are on the subject, a better replacement for xtdeskop icon manager and still small would be fbdesk (Fluxbox desktop icon manager):
http://fluxbox.sourceforge.net/fbdesk/
It has a nice user interface in that you can mange your icons from the GUI instead of editing a text file. Of course you can still edit a text file if that is your preference.
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