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Special Forums UNIX Desktop Questions & Answers Which is your favourite desktop? Post 302357117 by Scott on Monday 28th of September 2009 06:07:42 PM
Old 09-28-2009
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Originally Posted by Corona688
I dislike the trend of becoming more dependent on the GUI when there was no need. I also dislike the trend where KDE and the like keep incorporating Windows features everyone hates the most just to make it "familiar" instead of extending on features we want. I'd rather have tab completion for filenames than autocomplete -- tab complete at least waits to be asked before filling in a garbage wrong guess.

Worse, they're becoming the only way some bits of hardware can be used. Like bluetooth. They had excellent commandline support for it then gutted it and left it to rot. How're you supposed to automate that? Why should you need a working X server to use a bluetooth keyboard?
That's mostly what I was trying to say. Thank you for saying it! Smilie
 

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obexftpd(1)															       obexftpd(1)

NAME
obexftpd - Mobile Equipment file transfer server SYNOPSIS
obexftpd [OPTIONS] [TRANSPORT] DESCRIPTION
With obexftpd you can set up an obex server on any computers using IrDA, Bluetooth or TCP/IP. Use e.g. obexftp or the ObexFS to access the files on this server. OPTIONS
The ordering of options is important. The first transport option will start the server. Use basedir and verbose options prior to any trans- port. See EXAMPLES TRANSPORT OPTIONS -i, --irda Acceopt connections using the IrDA protocol. -b, --bluetooth Accept connections via bluetooth. -t device, --tty device Accept connections from this tty device. NOT WORKING! -n host, --network host Accept connections from the network to this port. SETTING THE FILE PATH -c folder, --chdir folder Set the base directory for the server. VERSION INFORMATION AND HELP -v, --verbose Be verbose and give some additional infos. -V, --version Print version string and exit. -h, --help, --usage Print short usage instructions. EXAMPLES
Start listening for bluetooth connections and use a safe basedir: obexftpd -c /tmp/inbox -b SEE ALSO
obexftp(1), openobex(3), obexftp(3), multicobex(3), libbfb(3). BUGS
Bugs ? Features ! NOTES
The software has been tested and reported working on at least Siemens, Ericsson, and Nokia phones. AUTHOR
Christian W. Zuckschwerdt <zany@triq.net> Alan Zhang <vibra@tom.com> 17 February 2009 obexftpd(1)
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