Very Computer

Hi,
  I am using AfterStep right now and its pretty nice. Accept that I
would like to find a windows manager which can do the follwing:

1)  Allow me to place files or links on the desktop. Which sort of gives
a feeling that :
2) The file manager is integrated in the windows manager ( somewhat like
the IRIX desktops..
3) allows full drag and drop file management. Also allows
me to double click on any of the links or files on the desktop and
fires up the relevant application by reading the magic no. of the
files.

   So does one such exist.It will be better if its freeware. ( of
course).

  Chetan Ahuja

FVWM-95 also has work in progress on a Win-95 style file management
system, which looks nice but is not yet complete. What they have done to
date looks promising.

Also, the Hungry Programmers are now laying the groundwork for Lesstif to
include CDE and Motif 2.0 stuff, so that may in the future another option.

- Daniel
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So far my experience with lesstif has been positive. Am looking forward
to it including Motif 2.0 libraries. Will bring with me if it is
available.

Regards,

Bill
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Quote:>3) allows full drag and drop file management. Also allows
>me to double click on any of the links or files on the desktop and
>fires up the relevant application by reading the magic no. of the
>files.

    http://sun1.rrzn-user.uni-hannover.de/~zzhibol/tkdesk

It works with any window manager, although some of its features (notably
the application bar) overlap with the features of some window managers.

From the home page:

  Following is a brief overview of the most prominent features of TkDesk:

  *  Arbitrary number of automatically refreshed file browsers and file list
     windows,
  *  Configurable file-specific popup-menus,
  *  Drag and drop,
  *  Files and directories may be dropped onto the root window a.k.a.
     desktop
  *  Configurable application bar, with several displays (currently date,
     load, and mail) and cascaded popup menus for each button,
  *  History of visited directories, opened files, executed commands, and
     others, which is automatically saved to disk,
  *  Find files through their annotation, name, contents, size or age,
  *  Trash can for safe deletion of files and directories,
  *  Calculation of disk usage for directory hierarchies,
  *  All file operations (find, copy, disk usage, etc.) are carried out in the
     background,
  *  Traversal of directory hierarchies through recursive cascaded menus,
  *  Bookmarks, create menu entries for often used files/directories,
  *  Built-in multi-buffer and UNDO-capable editor,
  *  Comprehensive hypertextish online help, the complete TkDesk User's
     Guide is available online (TkDesk also comes with a PostScript version
     of this guide),
  *  Close coupling with Netscape and XEmacs,
  *  Sound support,
  *  Powerful configuration of nearly all aspect of TkDesk through Tcl/Tk,
     this also allows the Tcl-literate to extend TkDesk in arbitrary ways,
  *  As TkDesk is distributed under the terms of the Gnu General Public
     License, it is free of charge!

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Quote:> >1)  Allow me to place files or links on the desktop.  [...]
> >2) The file manager is integrated in the windows manager
> >3) allows full drag and drop file management. Also allows
> >me to double click on any of the links or files on the desktop and
> >fires up the relevant application by reading the magic no. of the
> >files.

ftp://mitac11.uia.ac.be/html-test/fvwm95.html

ftp://mitac11.uia.ac.be/html-test/xclass.html

Specially the later one has really nice toolkit which
looks exactly like windows 95 and will have standard applications
like explorer

Jari