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Installed Programs: rox
Installed Libraries: None
Installed Directories: /usr/share/rox
Rox-Filer-2.11
Introduction to Rox-Filer
rox-filer is a fast, lightweight, gtk2 file manager.
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Package Information
Download (HTTP): https://downloads.sourceforge.net/rox/rox-filer-2.11.tar.bz2
Download MD5 sum: 0eebf05a67f7932367750ebf9faf215d
Download size: 1.8 MB
Estimated disk space required: 19 MB
Estimated build time: 0.3 SBU
rox-filer Dependencies
Required
Kernel Configuration
If you want rox-filer to be able to update the contents of a directory when changes are made to the files by other applications (eg, if a script is running) you will need to enable dnotify support in your kernel. In make menuconfig:
File systems ---> [*] Dnotify support [DNOTIFY]
Save the new .config and then compile the kernel.
Installation of Rox-Filer
Compile rox-filer with the following commands:
cd ROX-Filer &&
sed -i 's:g_strdup(getenv("APP_DIR")):"/usr/share/rox":' src/main.c &&
sed -i 's/gboolean/extern &/' src/session.h &&
mkdir build &&
pushd build &&
../src/configure LIBS="-lm -ldl" &&
make &&
popd
Now install it as the root user:
mkdir -p /usr/share/rox &&
cp -av Help Messages Options.xml ROX images style.css .DirIcon /usr/share/rox &&
cp -av ../rox.1 /usr/share/man/man1 &&
cp -v ROX-Filer /usr/bin/rox &&
chown -Rv root:root /usr/bin/rox /usr/share/rox &&
cd /usr/share/rox/ROX/MIME &&
ln -sv text-x-{diff,patch}.png &&
ln -sv application-x-font-{afm,type1}.png &&
ln -sv application-xml{,-dtd}.png &&
ln -sv application-xml{,-external-parsed-entity}.png &&
ln -sv application-{,rdf+}xml.png &&
ln -sv application-x{ml,-xbel}.png &&
ln -sv application-{x-shell,java}script.png &&
ln -sv application-x-{bzip,xz}-compressed-tar.png &&
ln -sv application-x-{bzip,lzma}-compressed-tar.png &&
ln -sv application-x-{bzip-compressed-tar,lzo}.png &&
ln -sv application-x-{bzip,xz}.png &&
ln -sv application-x-{gzip,lzma}.png &&
ln -sv application-{msword,rtf}.pngCommand Explanations
sed -i 's:g_strdup(getenv("APP_DIR")):"/usr/share/rox":' src/main.c: This command hard codes /usr/share/rox as the directory for rox-filer's private files. Without this sed rox needs the environment variable ${APP_DIR} to be set.
sed -i 's/gboolean/extern &/' src/session.h: This command fixes a multiple definition flagged as an error by GCC 10 and higher.
ln -sv application-...: These commands duplicate the icons for some common mime types. Without these links rox-filer would just display the default "unknown binary blob" icon.
Configuring RoxFiler
Configuration Information
Most of the configuration of rox-filer is
achieved by right clicking on a rox-filer
window and choosing "Options" from the menu. It stores its settings in
~/.config/rox.sourceforge.net.
A rox-filer feature is that if there is an
executable file called AppRun in a directory
rox-filer will first run
AppRun before it opens the folder.
As an example of how this may be used, if you have ssh access to another computer (perhaps another computer on your local network) with ssh configured for passwordless logins and you have sshfs-3.7.3 installed you can use AppRun to mount the remote computer in a local folder using sshfs. For this example AppRun script to work the folder must have the same name as the hostname of the remote computer:
cat > /path/to/hostname/AppRun << "HERE_DOC"
#!/bin/bash
MOUNT_PATH="${0%/*}"
HOST=${MOUNT_PATH##*/}
export MOUNT_PATH HOST
sshfs -o nonempty ${HOST}:/ ${MOUNT_PATH}
rox -x ${MOUNT_PATH}
HERE_DOC
chmod 755 /path/to/hostname/AppRun
That works fine for mounting, but to unmount it the
command fusermount -u ${MOUNTPOINT} is ran. You could set
that as your default umount command in your rox preferences, but you
would then be unable to unmount any normal mountpoints (that need
umount). A script is needed that will unmount a Fuse mountpoint
with fusermount -u ${MOUNTPOINT} and everything else
with umount. As the
root user:
cat > /usr/bin/myumount << "HERE_DOC" &&
#!/bin/bash
sync
if mount | grep "${@}" | grep -q fuse
then fusermount -u "${@}"
else umount "${@}"
fi
HERE_DOC
chmod 755 /usr/bin/myumountNow, to make Rox use this simple script, open a Rox window, right click on it and choose Options from the menu. In the left hand list choose "Action windows" and then on the right hand side, where it says "Unmount command" change umount to myumount.
If you use a desktop environment like
Gnome or KDE you
may like to create a rox.desktop file so that
rox-filer appears in the panel's menus. As
the root user:
ln -s ../rox/.DirIcon /usr/share/pixmaps/rox.png && mkdir -p /usr/share/applications && cat > /usr/share/applications/rox.desktop << "HERE_DOC" [Desktop Entry] Encoding=UTF-8 Type=Application Name=Rox Comment=The Rox File Manager Icon=rox Exec=rox Categories=GTK;Utility;Application;System;Core; StartupNotify=true Terminal=false HERE_DOC