Thanks for the help. The backslash plus fixing a few loose quotation
marks did the trick. I am punishing myself by writing on a blackboard
100 times " Syntax is my friend" I am now one big step closer to
actually understanding the menu system, but I think I will delay my
plans to teach myself C.
I do not understand the debian menu system. Based on what I read in the
manual /usr/doc/menu/html/ch4.html and other sources I took the
following steps as a user (not as root)
1. Created ~/.menudirectory
2. in ~/.menu created the following file
?package(local.staroffice):
Every once in a blue moon, when I am in X my keyboard and mouse lockup.
I am forced to turn the computer off. This is bad. Is there a log file
that I could look at that might help me to figure out what the problem
is? Also is there a particular grep syntax that I should us on the log
file.
Tha
Thanks to everyone for such informative responses. This list is like a
school for System Administration. I hope that one day I able to pass on
the knowledge I have gained here. Thanks again
Doesn't the fact that I can go to any Linux box with an install disk or
cd and gain root access mean that the all Linux systems are
fundamentally insecure? Perhaps the install process could be changed
so that root password, or some other verification system is required,
before a reinstall is perm
Hi Tim
Thanks for the help. Perhaps I was not clear
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Well what you want to look at, is the menu of the gnome panel :-) That
> will contain StarOffice.
This is correct. Staroffice does appear in the menu of the gnome panel.
I added it using the gnome menuing utility.
I added Staroffice to the Gnome menu, but it does not appear when I use
icewm-gnome as my window mangager. It does appear if I run gnome with
other window managers including icewm. icewm-gnome must be reading a
different config file or something. Can anyone tell me how to get it to
do what I wa
[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Gary L. Hennigan
> I'm a little confused about what you're (Tommy) asking
> here.
I will try to be explain.
I am sitting in my imaginary system administrators office. One by one
users come in and ask the same basic question; "What application can I
use to do foo". I should
Suppose you have a Debian Gnu/Linux system set up and fully loaded with
applications. A new user appears who is going to use the system. The
new user is a unix novice. He/she knows enough basic commands to get
by.
Is there a simple way for that user to find every available application
on
After a long delay I am finally ready to put together a small training
network in my apartment. First I have some basic questions.
There are 3 machines one AMD 586 133 /64 mg (my primary machine) and 2
Intel 486 66 /8 mg. All have ISA NE2000 cards
1. Can I live with 8 mg in the 486s?
"Person, Roderick" wrote:
>
> What window manager are you using? Most have a configuration util that
> allows you to set different fonts. I use WindowMaker and I can set fonts
> either with WMPrefs or wmakerconf.
>
I switch my window mangers every now and then but mostly use fvwm2
(olvm olvwm)
What is the best information source to learn about the use of fonts in
Linux and X? To be perfectly honest I have no idea how to use the many
fonts that are available to me under X. I have xfontsel installed and
have looked at it, but I am not sure how to use it to change default
screen fonts and
I notice that on my system Netscape 4.51 lists certain common
applications as unavailable. I can't imagine that I need a plugin for
perl or tcl when these are available on my system already. Can I direct
Netscape to /bin/sh for all applications or do I have to specify each
one? Since I call perl o
Has anyone here looked at Solaris 7 for Intel? Is there any problem
setting up a dual boot? Can you make any comparisons to Debian
Gnu/Linux? Thanks
Although I do not agree that RedHat and ms are in many way the same.
There are important things, for Debian, or any distribution, to learn
from the comparison. The simple fact is that there is a direct
correlation between name recognition and market share.
Achieving substantial increased
I was looking at the documentation for the latest stable debian release,
and noticed that it is shipped with kernel 2.0.36. As we know kernel
2.2 is now released. So I am wondering what the relationship is
between debian development and kernel development? Would it be better
to develop debian
I am trying to get out of the habit of modifying my system as root and
am attempting to modify fvwm2 as a user. I am having some problems.
This is what I have done.
copied /etc/x11/fvwm2/system.fvwm2rc to ~/fvwm2rcchown to user
created ~/.fvwm2 directory
copied /etc/
Someone I know who is learning programming sent me a link to a web page
they were working on that had VB and Active X controls. I couldn't see
any of it in netscape. Why not? Is it possible to see this stuff on a
Linux box? Are LInux users going to be cut off from web based
application written
In regard to debian's install being difficult for newbies, there seems a
simple solution. At the beginning of the install process have a menu
that asks what competency level the user is. (beginner, intermediate,
advanced) Then have an install procedure suitable for that level.
Some menus could a
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