Re: CD-ROM access via toolbar menu

[John Mellor <John Kungfu-tse net>]

Sorry about that.  Herewith tried again for all to see.

John

On  29-09-02  :  0221   terry wrote:
> John,  that's a good hint, but i think you just sent it to me and not
> Henrik or the list..........
> 
> >>  If you use ROX as your file manager (fast and superb) then all you
> >> have to do is put this line in your toolbar file:
> >>
> >>  prog "CDROM (or whatever you want)" <name of icon> rox /mnt/cdrom
> >>
> >>    or whatever your cdrom drive is called.
> >>
> >>  Check the other entries in the toolbar file in ~/.icewm to see the
> >>  precise format.
> >>
> >>  John
> >>
> >>  On  28-09-02  :  2234   terry wrote:
> >>  > >>  I wonder how it could be done to have a button on the
> taskbar
> >>  > >> to access =
> >>  > >>  the cd-rom. It we can open a program, surely there must be a
> >>  > >> way
> >>  >
> >>  > to
> >>  >
> >>  > >> open= =20
> >>  > >>  a directory - but how?
> >>  >
> >>  > Henrik,
> >>  >
> >>  > You will have to start some sort of file manager program and
> >>  > supply the
> >>  > directory name of your cd-rom.  You can do this with iceme (menu
> >>  > editor), which also sets the contents of the taskbar.  (You
> could
> >>  > also
> >>  >
> >>  > enter it directly in the text file for menus in your home
> >>  > directory .icewm, but get to know iceme it's nice.)
> >>  >
> >>  > If you are also able to run GNOME or KDE, but like me prefer to
> >>  > run icewm :), then open the other desktop and read what the
> >>  > command is that
> >>  > is executed by the cd-rom icon on their desktop.  Then copy that
> >>  > into the command for the icewm taskbar button.  If you use some
> >>  > other file manager, see it's documentation about how to supply a
> >>  > startup directory
> >>  > name - most of them can.
> >>  >
> >>  > Good Luck,
> >>  >
> >>  > terry
> >>  >
> >>  >
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> terry
> 
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