Hello everyone

I have installed RH8 on my machine. I have seen the screenshots on Redhat.com for RH8 having transparent menus, transparent terminal windows etc. How do i get it?

How do i change my default login screen in RH8?

Why RH8 is slower then RH7.2 on the same machine?

Regards
Vishal

RH8 is known to be slower than RH7.2 I solved the problem by deleting nautilus which causes most of the slowdown.
changing the default login screen may be done in one of the menu items (don't remember which one, just poke around)
the gnome terminal can be set transparent in the options menu.
xterm and other look at their man page, normally it's the -t option.
for transparent menus try googling, I don't know that.
Please notice that transparancy is one of the features that might slow down performance since it continuasl copies the background to be able to display it.

Anne

Thanx

How to delete nautilus. If i am not mistaking Nauitlus is a File Manager? sorry for asking such small questions but i am new to linux & learing it

Regards
Vishal

True Nautilus is the file manager preferred by the gnome developers, much like explorer is for Windows.
But that doesn't mean that you're obligated to use it. There are all types of filemanagers available (search the net on tucows or www.rpmfind.net) my personal favourite is mc (midnight commander) because it's very fast and runs in a text console as well (or a terminal within the gnome environment)
First thing you can do to improve performance is the go in to the options menu of nautilus and deselect the use nautilus to draw the desktop option. One warning though, that would delete you desktop icons since those are drawn by nautilus.
To completely delete nautilus, simply uninstall it or kill the proces in the system monitor.

If you're really looking for speed I recommend changing window manager, I'm using fluxbox, but there are other speedy ones around there as well.
Hope I didn't make things more complicated,

Anne
ps: you can find mc on your RH cd's

Redhat 8 should be faster, not slower than 7.3 - however speed can be affected by many things.

Transparent panels are in gnome2.2 (ie redhat 8.1 when it's released). Transparent menus are a no go unless you use KDE, the gnome developers decided not to lower usability with cheapo hacks.

Where will i find fluxbox for Redhat distribution.
I tried on sourceforge but there are versions for distros other than linux
Regards
Vishal

Best to compile it from source or to use the sourcerpms. The rpm's never worked for me because of dependeny hell.
The fluxbox site offers very good documentation on how to do this.

Anne

I tried to build the package from source rpm. The bulding process was fine. I installed from the built rpm. I did all the things mentioned in the documentation. Now problem is i dont know how to start it. If i type fluxbox & press is gives some messages then says that another window manager is already running.
How do i make it start as default?
Regards
Vishal

first, edit your xsession file (I don't remember exactly where to locate it sorry) or better make a back-up of it and replace it with a new file with this command:
exec /path/to/fluxbox

then restart X by pressing ctrl-alt-backspace

To get back to Gnome switch back to the back-up file.

Anne