general questions
Hi everyone, please call me n00b. =P
1) where is the volume control? 2) the other day I installed something, I was instructed to... make -f something ./configure make make install what does each of the command line mean 3) when I search I type find -name filename. What if I want to use wildcard? 4) in windows, ctrl C is copy, V is paste, X is cut, Z is undo, A is select all. such command don't seem to work in linux. Is there an alternative? 5) ctrl + alt + backspace is restart x sever. if I do this while in x windows, is it bad? (like hitting the ctrl + alt + del in windows) 6) I am running 1600x1200 resolution and 60hz on a 21 inch monitor/geforce2mx 64mb. I know it will flicker at this refresh rate/resolution and I need to set it to 72. How do I do that? 7) what's bash? 8) how do I do a screen capture? |
2) `./configure' detects what software your system has on it for compiling
`make' compiles the program `make install' installs it 7) BASH is a command shell. It's what reads the commands you type and makes them happen. |
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The third makes the program from the source code. You have to realize you weren't just installing something, but building it from source as well. The fourth command installed everything you had made on your system. Quote:
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Cheers, Finegan |
I can't help but add a few comments to thread.
First; Loveless - what a great list of questions! Second; TacKat and Finegan - what a great set of answers! This dialog is what makes these kinds of forums a great place to lurk (and post). Third; You know I am going to add a bit here. On the three finger X-salute (backspace, not delete), just remember that all of the programs that are running in your desktop will get killed. That may or may not be a good thing. Bourne was the guy that wrote the original "sh" and bash was the GNU replacement for the "Bourne Shell". Is that a nit or what :-}? Keep on truckin'... |
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It's the easiest program, I found, that can do a screenshots. You don't have to have it running in KDE, as long as you can open KDE programs. |
9) kde, gnome, cde, emac, sawfish are all x window interface? I only have kde installed (2.2) For some reason konqurer have anti-aliasing which is extremely annoying. I looked around and found mozilla and netscape for alternate browser but thje don't support flash. When I opened mozilla for the first time it crashed and I had to kill the pid. There was something else poped up called "pane" I can't find it anywhere. What could it be?
10) I installed something, how do I uninstall it? I had to compile it from source according to the helping answers above. So no rpm. 11) how do I distinct files types? for instance, there is a xmms in bin, lib and there are folders called xmms. how do I know which one is which? 12) I know there are hidden folders... I ran ls -flair under my /home/username and found a lot of them have to do with programs I recenly ran. Are they setting/config files for that program? 13) by the way I still can't get samba to start up when I type smb start it said command not found I remember installing it prior to rh installation. I went to control panel > service and started smb manally and now I can see a smbd -D running. when I smbmount //mywindowscomputername it said can not resolve mount point? I have 1 win2k pdc and another win2k workstation running and neither one responded. poop! 14) I am looking for tracert and ipconfig /all like commands 15) just for the hell of it, I went to yahoo games to test out java applet (just to see if it works) and I get a error: java executable not found? I enabled java applet globally in my browser already. |
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kde but can't seem to find such program, looks like it's not installed, where do I locate the rpm manager? |
damn, I feel like a counterstrike n00b asking how to aim correctly, haha.
Thanks for everyone's help. |
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Malicious, thanks for the pointer about Bourne. I must have spread that little fallacy all throughout a large crowd by now. Time to make amends. Cheers, Finegan |
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