On Tue, 10 Dec 2013 13:16:47 -0500 Dave Woyciesjes <woyciesjes@sbcglobal.net> wrote: > On 12/10/2013 12:38 PM, Tixy wrote: > > On Mon, 2013-12-09 at 16:25 +0000, Sharon Kimble wrote: > >> On Mon, 9 Dec 2013 15:03:33 +0000 > >> Sharon Kimble <boudiccas@talktalk.net> wrote: > >> > >>> > >>> I'm trying to move over to spacefm from nautilus because it > >>> automount > s > >>> my usb drives and kindle, but I've hit a snag. I occasionally > >>> need to mount a partition via shfs of my website on a remote > >>> server, but I cant see how to do that in spacefm. Can anyone help > >>> me please? > >>> > >> Answering my own question, neither pcmanfm nor spacefm could do > >> it, bu > t > >> thunar can. The first two also didn’t show hidden files [think > >> '.foobar'] but thunar can, so I'm moving over to thunar as it, so > >> far at least, does everything that I've asked of it. > >> > >> Thunar can - > >> * automount usb drives, > > > > pcmanfm can do that, in pcmanfm it's a tickbox under the 'Volume > > Management' tab of the Preferences menu. > > > >> * mount sftp drives, > > > > pcmanfm can do that, if you have gnome vfs packages installed > > (gvfs-backends and gvfs-fuse I beleive). > > > >> * show hidden files, > > > > pcmanfm do that, it's the 'Show Hidden' option in the 'view' menu, > > and it will remember you're last preference for that setting. > > > > And I would expect other file managers to also support these things. > > > Have you checked out Nemo? It aims to be what Nautilus was... > http://cinnamon.linuxmint.com/?p=198 > > Thanks for this Dave. I had just installed 'nemo' when I installed 'cinnamon' to try out, but hadn't thought to try nemo, but now I have, and so far it does the job! Thanks again Sharon. -- A taste of linux = http://www.sharons.org.uk efever = http://www.efever.blogspot.com/ efever = http://sharon04.livejournal.com/ my git repo = https://bitbucket.org/boudiccas/dots Debian testing, Fluxbox 1.3.5, LibreOffice 4.1.3.2 Registered Linux user 561944
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