On Tue, 05 May 1998, Filby, Gordon wrote:
>1. In X why does the default menu offer me New Shell and give me only
>an xterm? Is this right? I would have expected to get a submenu
>displaying other shell names to be installed.
It's not set up to do it that way. You can change it to do that if you
want.
'xterm' is not exactly the same thing as a shell. It's an X
representation of a terminal -- somewhat similar to a 'DOS box' in other
DOS-based operating systems wherein one can type command lines and/or
run character-mode programs.
A shell is like command.com running in the xterm, or in Linux, could be
any one of bash, tcsh, ksh, csh, zsh, and so forth.
For xterms, there are programs like rxvt, nxterm, and some others.
Because of the way Linux handles memory, it is better perhaps to settle
on one of these rather than to use different ones. It's better from a
memory standpoint to have 3 xterms open than to have one rxvt, one
nxterm and one something else, because the common parts of these
programs share the same memory areas. This may be part of the reason why
the default is to use xterm (nxterm, actually, in Red Hat) and not to
offer a submenu.
>2. Is there a mode in which I can see and
possibly confirm the files >read and loaded during booting. Something
like 95's confirm mode, I >mean.
Not that I know of. I'm not exactly sure what you mean, but possibly one
wouldn't want to do that. If you want to get into the nitty - gritty of
what files gets read and what options you have to disable/enable some of
this stuff you might want to message me or someone else directly.
>3. When I start xfm a second window containing the text No
configured >applications appears. I can't get rid of it without closing
xfm. Aslo in >xfm the View menu item doesn't work, even with files I
I'm pretty sure you need to configure xfm.
know to be text. >4. Can the control panel be resized so that all
buttons are visible at >once? On a 15inch screen they're much too large
I think so, but I'm not sure how to go about doing it.
>5. Is possible to place the scroll bar at the right of
>the emacs screen?
Not that I know of - get the sources and fix it. :) Xemacs, though, puts
the scroll bar on the right, and some prefer xemacs to emacs, and you
could just grab the xemacs rpms and use them in place of the emacs rpms
if you wish.
>6. On calling up X I get a message X Banner message
"Your text is >probably too wide" What does this mean? and how can I get
I haven't encountered that one before.
>7.Why do I get an x-console and what is it good for? Where
>can I switch it off?
Sometimes these are good to just put in a command line, or to display
logs or status messages in.
>8. When I'm in X and use xfm to cd to a directory why isn't my open
>xterm also in the same directory?
Because the xfm and the bash running inside the xterm (and the xterm
itself) are separate processes (programs) each with their own copy of
what's called the environment, where certain things, such as working
directory, are stored. So, once you change something inside one
process's environment, all the other processes aren't going to have
their environments change as well.
>and finally the most frustrating one of all,as it means I can't
install >anything from the "outside world".
I don't see why. Can you elaborate?
>9.In the User Mount tool (Start ->Programs->Administrator-> Disk
>Management) trying to Mount floppy (is type ext2 correct?) gives "wrong
>fs type, bad block or too many mounted file systems". I get the same
Only if the floppy has already been formatted with an ext2 filesystem.
In DOS, physical formatting (checking for bad blocks and laying down
tracks etc.) and logical formatting (laying down a filesystem) are done
at the same time, by the same program (FORMAT),. because in DOS, there's
only one filesystem. In Linux, there are many choices, including no
filesystem at all, so these are separate processes.
>Gordon Filby
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