hey bill, for folks who are really wanting a windows-like environment, i'd recommend going with a gnome or kde desktop environment. both come with built in file browsers, and i believe that they both also provide the click and go functionality for desktop icons as well. i don't know too much about installing either on your desktop, because i'm rather happy with fvwm2 personally, but i've sat down at debian stations running both kde and gnome, and found that both were quite featureful and user-friendly (though i don't remember what the default underlying window manager was in either case). sean On Mon, Feb 17, 2003 at 03:54:38PM -0800, Bill Moseley wrote: > Trying to ease the transition to Linux for the family, I'd like a > MS Windows-like Explorer file manager, both in look and usage. > > Not that icon view, just the plain old "Explore" with directories > on the left and directory contents on the right. And where I can > configure what mouse buttons do for each file type (e.g. right click on > .mp3 and select from menu xmms play, xmms queue, or mpg123, or scp to > some set machine). Also click on column titles to sort by that column. > > Window manager is icewm. > > I like Rox and FileRunner and a few others, but this is a case where I'm > trying to make it feel a lot like Windows. > > Thanks, > > -- > Bill Moseley moseley@hank.org > > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-user-request@lists.debian.org > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmaster@lists.debian.org >
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