On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 08:02:58AM -0400, Roy wrote: > It depends on the desktop environment. > GNOME uses Nautilus > KDE 3.5 uses Konqueror > KDE 4.x uses Dolphin > XFCE uses Thunar > Ubuntu uses GNOME, therefore Nautilus and Kubuntu is KDE 4.x and therefore > uses Dolphin. *There are other desktop environments such as LXDE, Openbox, > Fluxbox, and Enlightenment. If you go to Distrowatch it gives the top 100 > distros and if you click on one it will list every package or you can just > Google the distro and go to its web site. > As for listing drives you can use a GUI or commandline. It is your choice. > Ubuntu lists all drives in the media folder, but not all distros do it > this way. If they are in fstab then they may be listed under mnt. > From the CLI you can list drives and partitions with:*fdisk -l*(as root) > or:*cat /proc/partitions > or: parted -l (as root) > Depending on the distro you can use either sudo or su to become root. > Roy > On 22 March 2010 23:56, Dos-Man 64 <[1][email protected]> wrote: > > I need to do this in code. *On KNOPPIX, it seems to be Konqueror. > OpenSuse seemed to be using Dolphin. *I'm actually not sure what > DreamLinux uses. > > Also, what is the best way to obtain a listing of all disk drives on > the system? *Do I have to parse /etc/fstab (and will I even be able to > if the program isn't run by someone who is logged in as root?) *Is > there an easier way? > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [2][email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to > [3][email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > [4]http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > linuxusersgroup+[5]unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email > with the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > [6]http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > To unsubscribe from this group, send email to > linuxusersgroup+unsubscribegooglegroups.com or reply to this email with > the words "REMOVE ME" as the subject. > > References > > Visible links > 1. mailto:[email protected] > 2. mailto:[email protected] > 3. mailto:[email protected] > 4. http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > 5. http://unsubscribegooglegroups.com/ > 6. http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup
For launching the file manager, I would set up a queue - i.e. Try to launch dolphin. Not there? try nautilus. Not there? try konqueror. If you hit the end of your list, prompt the user for a file manager, and store this in your list of things to try. For looking at filesystems, all users can read fstab, and you can parse it if you want to. Otherwise, running the mount command without any options will show you all the mounted filesystems. To actually get a list of disk devices the kernel knows about, cat /proc/partitions is your best bet.
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