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Re: X-servers for Win & Mac Re: Introduction
Hi Rhandeev,
Cool, someone who knows how to do this. I guess at some point I need to
sit down and learn tk stuff. About five years ago when I started writing
perl scripts I decided agains tk -- I couldn't find any books and the
syntax was more confusing to me. (Odd because I hear its suppose to be
easy to understand). Anyway, yes, I would like to look at the script. Is
there a way to easily integrate that into tkdesk. I think that is the
easiest file manager to use in linux. (not the fastest, but the most
intuitive -- that's good. I think kde is too resource hungry for many of
my machines. But can it integrate easily into kde. I haven't tried GNOME
yet either, but is it easy to integrate it into that? Anyway, tell me
more. I like what I hear.
>
>It can be improved with a little configuration. For example, Macs
>mount/unmount floppies too, and people are generally quite happy with
>that, except for the few times that MacOS totally ruins the floppy.
>(Thankfully that has not happened on Linux.)
>
>I see it as a user interface issue. The only difference here is that PCs
>don't pop diskettes out of the drive like Macs do.
>
>If you're using a GUI, a simple Tcl/Tk `applet' with one button
>(mount/unmount floppy as appropriate) will do. Lemme know if you'd like a
>simple Tcl/Tk script that can do this. It only takes a few lines of code.
>
>Alternatively, try automount with a 1 second timeout, e.g.
>
>In /etc/auto.master:
> /misc /etc/auto.misc --timeout 1
>
>In /etc/auto.misc:
> floppy -fstype=auto :/dev/fd0
>
>And in /mnt/floppy:
> lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 11 Sep 19 16:49 floppy -> /misc/floppy
>
>Frankly, though, I don't see why you'd need any of this with mtools
>around.
>
>---
>Rhandeev Singh rhandeev@comp.nus.edu.sg
>Linux User Group http://linux.comp.nus.edu.sg
>School of Computing http://www.comp.nus.edu.sg
>National University of Singapore