I need to find a good graphical file manager for my family pc. I am aware of two choices: gmc and nautilus. Right now they are using gmc. I like it because it is simple and straightforward. The only problem is that I have not been able to associate mime-types with applications. Say, for example, that I want .doc and .sxw files to open with StarOffice when they are clicked. I have tried to do it in the gnome control center and also by editing mc.keys directly. I have googled and searched the entire gnome site, and got the impression that people are aware of this problem, but not dealing with it because gnome is standardizing on nautilus. I have tried nautilus. It worked quite well, with one exception. I use autofs to handle mounting of the cdrom, floppy, and flash. Autofs works by by detecting when a user tries to chdir to a certainf mount point (eg. /var/autofs/flash/flash). Thing is, if the contents of /var/autofs/flash are listed before the flash is mounted, the directory shows nothing. Now, I don't expect my family members to memorize the /var/autofs/flash/flash mountpoint, and since the directory shows nothing before it is listed, they can't graphically navigate there. My solution to this was to put symlinks in their home directories, ie. ln -s /var/autofs/flash/flash ~/Flash With gmc, this works great. They click on the link in their home directory and the media is mounted. I can put icons on the desktop as well. With nautilus, it doesn't work. When the link is clicked, nautilus reports an error and asks if the link should be removed. It then proceeds to remove the link, even if the link is owned by another user. Is this a nautilus problem, an autofs problem or both? I'm not sure where to report the bug. Also, if anyone has a better way to set up autofs and get it to work with nautilus, please let me know. g $ dpkg -l | egrep '(gmc|nautilus|autofs)' ii autofs 3.9.99-4.0.0pr A kernel-based automounter for Linux. ii gmc 4.5.55-1.1 Midnight Commander - A powerful file ii libnautilus0 1.0.6-2 Shared libraries that part of Nautilus ii mc-common 4.5.55-1.1 Common files for mc and gmc rc nautilus 1.0.6-2 file manager and graphical shell $ uname -a Linux briarhill 2.4.17 #1 SMP Tue Jan 15 18:05:28 EST 2002 i686 unknown -- Brought to you by Debian 3.0 Linux took 2.4.16 #1 SMP Sat Jan 5 12:52:24 EST 2002 i686 unknown
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