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Conrad Lloyd-Knight | 3 Jan 2005 17:33

how to enable vfs?

Hi!

I'm new to rox-filer and quite like the interface. In order to make it
more useful, though, I would like to be able to click on, for example,
a .tar.gz file and view the contents as if it were a directory. If I'm
not mistaken, this functionality is implemented through a VFS. 

The documentation mentions "avfs", but the site linked to does not
appear to have a version updated in the past few years. While
"configure" was running before the compile, though, I noticed it was
looking for GnomeVFS. I installed this (and the umpteen support
libraries it needed) and recompiled rox-filer, and the install.sh
script verified it had been built with GnomeVFS support this
time. However, when I run this version, I still cannot open archives.

Is there perhaps something I still need to activate from within
rox-filer? Am I missing the point of the VFS and this functionality
doesn't exist? Thanks in advance for any clues in the right direction!

-Conrad.

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Thomas Leonard | 3 Jan 2005 17:50
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Re: how to enable vfs?

On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:33:59AM -0500, Conrad Lloyd-Knight wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> I'm new to rox-filer and quite like the interface. In order to make it
> more useful, though, I would like to be able to click on, for example,
> a .tar.gz file and view the contents as if it were a directory. If I'm
> not mistaken, this functionality is implemented through a VFS. 
> 
> The documentation mentions "avfs", but the site linked to does not
> appear to have a version updated in the past few years. While
> "configure" was running before the compile, though, I noticed it was
> looking for GnomeVFS. I installed this (and the umpteen support
> libraries it needed) and recompiled rox-filer, and the install.sh
> script verified it had been built with GnomeVFS support this
> time. However, when I run this version, I still cannot open archives.

Currently, gnome-vfs is only used for working out file types from their
contents. It would be good to allow using some of its other functions,
though (ROX-Filer used to support gmc's VFS system, so it shouldn't be
that hard). Anyone want to have a go?

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Alex Kloss | 3 Jan 2005 17:59
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Re: how to enable vfs?

Heya!

I'm not good enough a programmer to do that, but I would really love to see that feature in rox.

Greetings, Alex

> Currently, gnome-vfs is only used for working out file types from their
> contents. It would be good to allow using some of its other functions,
> though (ROX-Filer used to support gmc's VFS system, so it shouldn't be
> that hard). Anyone want to have a go?
> 
> 
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Max Power | 3 Jan 2005 19:05

ROX & gtk+-2.6

Greets.

Anyone try using ROX w/ gtk+ 2.6.x?  If so, does it behave?  I
particularly use ROX-Filer and ROX-Session and I suspect ROX-Session
would be tempermental since it is a Python blob and pygtk might not get
along w/ gtk+-2.6 just yet.  Just curious.  I'd try it myself but can't
afford to experiment on this system just yet.  (I currently use
ROX-Filer-2.1.4 and ROX-Session-0.1.24 w/ gtk+-2.4.13 on a home-grown
Linux box.)

Oh yeah, happy New Year!

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squidge | 3 Jan 2005 20:08
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Re: how to enable vfs?

Thomas Leonard <tal00r <at> ecs.soton.ac.uk> wrote:

> On Mon, Jan 03, 2005 at 11:33:59AM -0500, Conrad Lloyd-Knight wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > I'm new to rox-filer and quite like the interface. In order to make
> > it more useful, though, I would like to be able to click on, for
> > example, a .tar.gz file and view the contents as if it were a
> > directory. If I'm not mistaken, this functionality is implemented
> > through a VFS.
> > 
> > The documentation mentions "avfs", but the site linked to does not
> > appear to have a version updated in the past few years. While
> > "configure" was running before the compile, though, I noticed it was
> > looking for GnomeVFS. I installed this (and the umpteen support
> > libraries it needed) and recompiled rox-filer, and the install.sh
> > script verified it had been built with GnomeVFS support this time.
> > However, when I run this version, I still cannot open archives.
> 
> Currently, gnome-vfs is only used for working out file types from
> their contents. It would be good to allow using some of its other
> functions, though (ROX-Filer used to support gmc's VFS system, so it
> shouldn't be that hard). Anyone want to have a go?

If anyone does they will be my friend-for-life (tm)

:)

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Conrad Lloyd-Knight | 3 Jan 2005 20:17

Re: how to enable vfs?

On Monday, Jan  3, 2005 at 16:50, Thomas Leonard wrote:
> Currently, gnome-vfs is only used for working out file types from their
> contents. It would be good to allow using some of its other functions,
> though (ROX-Filer used to support gmc's VFS system, so it shouldn't be
> that hard).

So are two different VFS components needed? Gnome's VFS to identify
file types and then a second to actually open the files? If this is
the case, what are people using as the second component? The manual
mentions AVFS, but that project doesn't look like it has been updated
in about 2 years.

Thanks,
-Conrad.

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Guido Schimmes | 3 Jan 2005 21:52
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Re: ROX & gtk+-2.6

Max Power schrieb:

>Greets.
>
>Anyone try using ROX w/ gtk+ 2.6.x?  If so, does it behave?  I
>particularly use ROX-Filer and ROX-Session and I suspect ROX-Session
>would be tempermental since it is a Python blob and pygtk might not get
>along w/ gtk+-2.6 just yet.  Just curious.  I'd try it myself but can't
>afford to experiment on this system just yet.  (I currently use
>ROX-Filer-2.1.4 and ROX-Session-0.1.24 w/ gtk+-2.4.13 on a home-grown
>Linux box.)
>  
>
No problem with ROX or pygtk. Released pygtk doesn't support gtk-2.6's 
new features of course.
I haven't seen any incompatibilities.

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Peter | 4 Jan 2005 00:02
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Configuring Panel

I have three questions re: Rox Panel.

1) Are there config settings that can change the color, background, or
transparency of the Panel?
2) How can I save the panel applets and layout. When I restart, the
applets I dragged to the panel seem to be gone and I have to re-drag them.
3) What is "Panel is a Dock" on the Compatibility screen for?

I use Enlightenment 0.16.8 and it seems to run very well with it.

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Ken Hayber | 4 Jan 2005 03:33
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Re: Configuring Panel

Peter wrote:
> I have three questions re: Rox Panel.
> 
> 1) Are there config settings that can change the color, background, or
> transparency of the Panel?
Currently only via Xresources settings.  See the bottom of this page  http://rox.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/ThemeGallery

> 2) How can I save the panel applets and layout. When I restart, the
> applets I dragged to the panel seem to be gone and I have to re-drag them.
This should just happen normally.  The panel and pinboard icons and locations are saved in separate files in
ROX-Filer's choices directory (e.g. ~/Choices/ROX-Filer/pb_Default).  Maybe the way you are logging
out from E is causing some problem ???  Are you using ROX-Session?

> 3) What is "Panel is a Dock" on the Compatibility screen for?
Hover your mouse over it and read the tooltip :)  It has to do with WindowManager hints and the fact that many
WM's implement things strange^H^H^H^H^H^Hdifferently or not at all.

> I use Enlightenment 0.16.8 and it seems to run very well with it.
> 
> Regards
> 
> 
> 
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Matthew Weier O'Phinney | 4 Jan 2005 06:23
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Re: Configuring Panel

On Mon, 03 Jan 2005 18:33:17 -0800, Ken Hayber <ken <at> hayber.us> wrote:
> Peter wrote:
> > I have three questions re: Rox Panel.
> >
> > 1) Are there config settings that can change the color, background, or
> > transparency of the Panel?
> Currently only via Xresources settings.  See the bottom of this page
> http://rox.sourceforge.net/phpwiki/index.php/ThemeGallery

Actually, that page shows how to do this using *GTK* resources... ;-)

And, by the way, the examples provided are not currently working -- at
least when I just tried them (I tried changing the color of my panel, as
well as adding a background image to it -- no dice). I used the
following example:

In .gtkrc.mine:

    pixmap_path /home/matthew/.themes/Images
    style "panel-style"
    {
        bg_pixmap[NORMAL] = "trans.png"
    }
    widget "rox-panel.*" style "panel-style"

I also tried using:

    bg[NORMAL] = "#000000"

instead of the image. And yes, I did kill ROX. I even tried logging out
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