1 Freqeuently Asked Questions, last updated for kio_fish 1.1
3 Q: Typing fish:/some.host.com does not work
4 A: It is fish://some.host.com (double slash)
6 Q: How can I use a different port?
7 A: Use regular URL syntax: fish://some.host.com:2222
9 Q: Something isn't working. I get strange/no displays
10 A: Could be a bug, could be a problem with the remote
11 tools. Try having perl somewhere in the PATH on the
12 remote machine, that should work reliably. Shell-
13 only mode is prone to different tool's opinion about
14 parameters and what they mean. Shell-only mode is
15 thouroughly tested only on GNU tools, and has
16 superficial testing on BSD and Digital Unix. Solaris
17 seems to have problems. Any reports for shell mode on
18 non-GNU machines welcome (BTW, if you see a file
19 .fishsrv.pl in your remote home directory, fish did
22 Q: The connection stays open. How do I disconnect?
23 A: Just wait. The system default idle timeout is used.
24 (about a minute or so)
26 Q: Why are there no icons?
27 A: With this release, you should have icons almost always,
28 but best results are obtained if you install a recent
29 version of the 'file' utility that supports the '-i'
32 Q: How do I specify which program to use for SSH?
33 A: Not at all, sorry. After evaluating other programs (rsh,
34 rlogin, telnet) I came to the conclusion it was way too
35 complex to support these, as only ssh supports both,
36 password authentication and automatic execution.