Re: [gNewSense-users] Metad LXDE Setup

[al3xu5 / dotcommon]

Il giorno martedì 21/12/2010 13:19:00 CET
Paul Roge <address@hidden> ha scritto:

> 2) I am only able to mount usb and pcmcia volumes manually or via the
> pcmanfm gui. Is there a way to have volumes mounted automatically
> to /media/ as in GNOME?

mabe this can help (also if not gNS related):
https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/LXDE#Auto_Mount

> 3) I am currently using with network-manager and network-manager-gnome
> for connecting to the internet. I couldn't figure out LXDE packages
> lxnm and lxpanel-netstat-plugin. 

indeed they seems to be discontinued now
(see: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Status_of_LXDE_Components)

> While all the webpages that I read
> on this recommended using the GNOME network managers, I haven't found
> them to be very reliable. 

i agree with this... 
and also it has gnome deps...

> Are there any other program options in the
> metad repository that I have missed?

you can try with wicd, which is GTK, with no required graphical (X,
gnome etc.) dependencies:
http://wicd.sourceforge.net/

regards
al3xu5 / dotcommon

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