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Ezfm is a EZWGL-based file manager for the X window system. It provides a GUI for file manipulation and application execution. It offers most of the features one would expect from a file manager.

Ezfm has many manipulation features. It will allow a user to:

Traverse folders via a double-click, menu options, or a click-and-type mechanism.
Rename file or directory names via menu options or a click-and-type mechanism.
Change folder display modes (i.e. large icons, small icons, folder tree, alphabetical order, date order etc) and filtering options.
Create, move, copy, link, and delete objects via menu options and/or drag-and-drop.
Modify file attributes via menu options.
Invoke actions (such as edit or view-image) on objects via a double-click, menu options, or drag- and-drop.
Mount and umount removable drives (cdrom, floppy and zip) automatically.
Place frequently used object (files or applica- tions) on the desktop.

Ezfm also supports pseudo-transparancy. An option is provided to make ezfm windows behave like tinted glass windows.

Downloading EZFM 0.4

EZFM 0.4 is released under GPL. It is available in source form and in statically linked binary forms for sparc-solaris, i386-solaris, sparc-sunos4 and i386-linux.

Compiling EZFM 0.4

EZFM is based on the EZ widget and graphics library (EZWGL). It requires EZWGL-1.40c

After downloading the , issue the command

gzip -dc EZFM-0.4-src.tgz | tar xvf -

It will unpack the source in the directory EZFM-0.4. Change directory to EZFM-0.4, enter the command

make

to compile ezfm. To install EZFM, first modify the first few lines in Makefile to settings suitable for you, then issue the command

make install

Installation will copy the following files

	     INSTALLATION_DIR/bin/ezfm
	     INSTALLATION_DIR/lib/ezfmIcons/*
	     INSTALLATION_DIR/lib/ezfm/ezfmrc  
	     INSTALLATION_DIR/lib/ezfm/ezfmMagic
	     INSTALLATION_DIR/man/man1/ezfm.1

Post Installation Procedure for Linux Systems

You'll probabily need to modify your /etc/fstab in order to make automatic mounting/umounting removable devices work. Part of my /etc/fstab looks like

#
# ------- So normal user can mount/umount removable devices------
#
/dev/hdc      /cdrom     iso9660  user,noauto,ro,exec,unhide
/dev/fd0      /floppy    msdos    user,noauto,rw
/dev/hdb4     /zip       msdos    user,noauto,rw
#
/dev/fd0      /floppy2   ext2     user,noauto,rw,exec
/dev/hdb4     /zip2      ext2     user,noauto,rw,exec
#
# make sure the mounting points /cdrom /floppy ... are of mode 1777
#  (chmod 1777 /cdrom) ...
#-------------------------------------------------------------

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