Kendrick Vargas wrote:
> > Jeremy Dinsel writes:
> > > Is it possible to have shortcuts to applications on the fvwm desktop? To
> > > my knowledge, it is only possible to have icons on the desktop that are
> > > actively running. I would like a method for quick access to programs
> > > through inactive icons that launch programs when double clicked
> > > (unfortuantely, I can only compare it to micro-stuff desktop icons in
> > > 95/nt).
> > [Deletia]
>
> You might also want to look to the Xclass library distribution. The latest
> version can be found at:
>
> ftp://mitac11.uia.ac.be/pub/xclass
>
> When built, it contains a client called "desktop" which does what you need
> it to. It sits on the desktop and creates icons. The documentation should
> be clear enough and most people have no problem with the app, however you
> should remember that this is alpha software (not beta).
There is also Tycoon (an OffiX desktop manager) and kfm (the file
manager from KDE, which does desktop handling).
Tycoon is much smaller (memorywise and diskwise), but kfm does more
(and looks nicer, IMHO). Both allow drag-and-drop (Tycoon with OffiX
programs, kfm with KDE programs).
I currently use fvwm2 and kfm together, with no problems whatsoever.
With a short Perl script (to convert a file:// URL into a filename),
you can even allow dragging of stuff from kfm onto FvwmWharf buttons.
The only problem with kfm is that you have to create a kdelnk for any
application you want to add. kfm allows you to do that easily, though
(File->New->Progam).
--
-Neil Moore, amethyst_at_maxwell.ml.org, http://www.sfloyd.ml.org/~amethyst/
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Received on Sat Feb 28 1998 - 16:42:39 GMT