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Old 10-25-2003, 08:27 AM   #1
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slackware doubts ;-|


hi,

i am using slackware 9.0. i have some doubts regarding slackware

1. how do i enable anti-aliased fonts in slackware. I tried the gnome font settings, but in vain.

I am really switching to slackware from mandrake but i am greatly missing such a cool stuff.

2. why do i don't see any vitual terminals on switching to initlevel:4 except X (vt 7). But all the 6 terminals are there when initlevel is 3 (no gui)

3. On initlevel:4 "gdm" is automatically starting up. Since mine is a single user system. I don't want to start my favourite wm(xfce4) through gdm. I wanted to start it directly. How do I do it?

4. "mysql.server start" isn't seems to be working. it exits abruptly. no messages were printed. what might be the problem. i tried a lot hacking into my box, but atlast i booted into mandrake for that. ;-(

Thanks in advance ..... ;-)

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Old 10-25-2003, 10:07 AM   #2
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For 2 and 3, just put the runlevel back to the default of 3 in /etc/inittab. Then do 'xwmconfig' to pick xfce once and run 'startx' ever after.
 
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Originally posted by digiot
For 2 and 3, just put the runlevel back to the default of 3 in /etc/inittab. Then do 'xwmconfig' to pick xfce once and run 'startx' ever after.
when i tried to run 'xwmconfig' it gave me command not found error. or in short in which slackware package i can find 'xwmconfig'. i have recently installed xfce4 (www.xfce.org) how can i make sure that xwmconfig will list my new wm also?
 
Old 10-25-2003, 10:36 AM   #4
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It's part of pkgtools and is in /usr/X11R6/bin/. You aren't doing this as root, are you? It's a per user script and you'd probably have to give the full path as root since Slack doesn't include that in root's path.

As far as whether it will list it, I think it just picks it up but, if not, you could just copy one of the others and change the 'exec' line and rename it. Or just edit your own ~/.xinitrc, though that would get overwritten if you switched wm's again.
 
Old 10-25-2003, 11:18 AM   #5
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Re: slackware doubts ;-|

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Originally posted by sridharinfinity

1. how do i enable anti-aliased fonts in slackware. I tried the gnome font settings, but in vain.
http://brendan.sdf-eu.org/articles/a...sing_slack.php
 
Old 10-25-2003, 12:51 PM   #6
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for mysql, try:

#>su mysql
$>mysql_install_db
^D (press ctrl+D) =]
#>chmod a+x /etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld
#>/etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld start

now it shoud work ^^
usually you controle mysql with the /etc/rc.d/rc.mysqld script

Last edited by linen0ise; 10-25-2003 at 12:57 PM.
 
Old 10-25-2003, 01:18 PM   #7
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If you recently installed xfce4, then instead of startx, you should be able to run 'startxfce4'.

Works for me.
 
  


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