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___________________ August 1995
updated January '96
MOXFM FOR XFM USERS
___________________
Moxfm was developed using xfm's source code and general ideas, and the
format of the configuration files (except the device configuration file)
is compatible with xfm's. But moxfm is not exactly a Motif port of xfm;
it has a lot of new features xfm does not have, and is lacking four of
xfm's features on the other hand. These are the four missing features:
- Moxfm does not support the tree file view of file windows.
- In moxfm's application window you cannot select multiple
application buttons for simultaneous copy, move or delete
actions, as they are designed as push buttons, so that the
push action is invoked when single-clicking on them. In xfm,
you have to double-click in order to invoke the push action,
and you can select items in the application window by
single-clicking.
- Moxfm's application windows do not have any additional
push buttons except those representing the configured
applications, in order to reduce the screen space taken by
the window.
- You cannot open a file window of a directory by dragging
the directory's icon and dropping it on the root window,
but you have to select the Open item from the popup menu.
Here some features of moxfm, which xfm (as of version 1.3.2) is lacking:
- You can have several application windows open at the same
time and copy and move buttons between them with drag'n'drop.
- You can put files and applications as icons on the desktop.
- Moxfm supports automatic updates of application windows as well
as of file windows.
- Moxfm provides a monitoring facility which allows you to keep an
eye on your most important files and directories. During automatic
updates moxfm checks the state of these files, and responds to
different kinds of changes by invoking user-defined actions (such
as, e.g., updating icons of some applications, opening a file or
application window, loading a file into your favourite editor,
etc.).
- Moxfm copies files in the background.
- Drag'n'drop is implemented in an ICCCM compliant way, and
you can drag'n'drop files and applications between different
instances of moxfm, as well as between moxfm and some other
(Motif) applications. E.g., you can copy the contents of an
ASCII file into a Motif editor by dragging the file from the
file window and dropping it onto the window of the editor,
and you can drag text from a Motif editor and drop it onto
an application window.
- Directory buttons in application windows are by default
created as drop sites for copying, moving and linking files
and directories.
- Moxfm has a mount table window, where you can see which of
your configured special device files are currently mounted.
You can mount devices manually, too.
- You can save the positions and states of the open moxfm
windows to the startup file by choosing the "Save windows:
item from either the Windows pulldown menu of a file window
or the popup menu of an application window.
Most differences in the look and feel of moxfm and xfm arise from
the different standards of the used widget libraries. Especially
the mouse buttons have different functions. In moxfm, you select
single files with the left mouse button, and if you want to select
multiple files, you have to press the Ctrl key when selecting
additional files with the left mouse button. If you want to select
a number of files in consecutive order, you can select the first
file of the block with the left mouse key and then select the last
file with the left mouse key in connection with the Shift key.
All drag'n'drop operations are performed with the middle mouse
button. When you release the middle mouse button over a valid
drop site, the dragged files are moved to the corresponding directory.
When you hold the Ctrl key pressed while releasing the mouse
button, the files are copied, and when you press Ctrl Shift, the
files are linked.
Have fun!
Oliver Mai