looking for ideas: creating a data partition for a dual boot system

[Jerry McAllister]

On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 10:33:20PM +0100, Roland Smith wrote:

> On Tue, Dec 11, 2007 at 04:19:14PM -0500, Aryeh M. Friedman wrote:
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> > >> 2. Share the same Desktop folder (I think if #1 is solved this is
> > >> automatic)
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> > > Maybe, but the Desktop folder would be pretty much useless for
> > > FreeBSD. Maybe there is an X window manager that could do something
> > >  usefull with it, but I doubt it. And the icons and stuff would
> > > point to windows programs/drives anyway.
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> > Every x desktop manager calls it ~/Desktop
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> What doe you mean by "desktop manager"? If you mean window manager, it
> is definitely not true. For instance, fvwm2 uses ~/.fvwm/config.
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> If you mean desktop environments, it is also not true. According to
> their respective documentations, KDE uses ~/.kde be default, and Gnome
> uses ~/.gconf, ~/.gnome2 and ~/.local/share.

I think he means his MS-Win desktop - not one in FreeBSD, but some
other posters seem to be drifting from that.

////jerry

 
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> Roland
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