iconbox & taskbar feature requests

[Wade Nelson]

edscott wrote:
> El jue, 15-07-2004 a las 14:22, Wade Nelson escribió:
> 
>>edscott wrote:
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>>>El jue, 15-07-2004 a las 09:05, Wade Nelson escribió:
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>>>
>>>>edscott wrote:
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>>El mié, 14-07-2004 a las 22:27, Wade Nelson escribió:
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>>>>>
>>>>>>>PS: what do the background shades of icons in the iconbox mean? some 
>>>>>>>apps have a light green background, some a light purple in my case.
>>>>>>
>>>>>>/me slaps himself with large trout
>>>>>>
>>>>>>figured this out about 2 minutes after this post...
>>>>>>
>>>>>>However, I did notice that when I double click an unmounted samba mount 
>>>>>>in the fstab part of xffm-cvs (correct entry in fstab), all of xfce4-cvs 
>>>>>>hangs... I can mount and umount until I pass out from a term or console, 
>>>>>>but it seems the mount operation is hanging (according to htop), as well 
>>>>>>as xffm, and killing both processes still leaves me hanging. I can 
>>>>>>reproduce this to my hearts content, so if any info is needed just say so :)
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>It might be expecting a password or something from stdin. If you do the
>>>>>mount from an xterm, do you have to provide additional information after
>>>>>the mount command? 
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>> Ah yes, I forgot to mention, it does expect a password, but they're 
>>>>win98 machines, and the password is blank/empty... I suppose I could 
>>>>pass this through fstab or samba?  Shouldn't xffm/xfsamba4 show a 
>>>>"Password:" dialog however, or is there a reason not to implement that?
>>>
>>>
>>>Up to the date there have been no requests for such a feature. What is
>>>the samba mount line in your fstab file? I would need that information
>>>to test and implement this. 
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>//UPSTAIRS/C    /mnt/samba/upstairs/c  smbfs  user,noauto    0 0
>>//UPSTAIRS/D    /mnt/samba/upstairs/d  smbfs  user,noauto    0 0
>>//DOWNSTAIRS/C  /mnt/samba/downstairs  smbfs  user,noauto    0 0
>>
>>pretty basic, I rarely mount them, so I haven't messed with passwords 
>>and such.
> 
> 
> Ok. The feature is now working. For smbfs listed in fstab, a
> user/password dialog will pop up. If the smb server does not need any
> user/password, just press the cancel. Otherwise enter the information.
> 
> Also, you can now mount smb shares, not listed in fstab, to a temporary
> mount point. just browse to the share and double click on it or select
> "mount" from popup. To unmount use the popup as well.
> 

Awesome! works perfect here :)
Thanks... I've been messing with it for a while, works like a charm.