Occasional Thoughts

Once again I cover an application for Microsoft Windows in this App of the Whatever post. Not that anybody starts to think that I became a big Windows fan - no, I'm not. It's just that I am missing a lot of features under Windows I got used to on my KDE/Linux box. Ever since I have to use Windows I was missing one little thing very badly. To use the mouse wheel on an application you have to click on it first to give it the focus. Even worse is that you first have to click in the left pane of the explorer to scroll the folder tree and once again in the right pane to scroll the files view.

I just tried to mount a Samba share using autofs: 'smbfs is not supported by the kernel' was the reply I found in the log. Well, in case you stumbled also over this: 'smbfs' is now called 'cifs'. Simply rename the file system type in you autofs maps.