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billy_gates:
I have a couple questions on GNOME
How do you add prgrams/item to the GNOME Menu
How do i set the monitor to turn off after 10 minutes
How do you snap files and folders to a grid in icon view, like there is in windows and mac
I guess this is more of a linux question, but how do you make a file invisible without changing its name to have a . in front of it?
If i think of more I'll ask them here.
[ December 22, 2002: Message edited by: Billy Gates: Mac Commando ]
voidmain:
quote:Originally posted by Billy Gates: Mac Commando:
I have a couple questions on GNOME
How do you add prgrams/item to the GNOME Menu
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GNOME is more panel oriented. You can add panels, make them hide etc. It is very easy to add items to the panel by right clicking and adding a launcher. It took me a little getting used to but I like it better. I put my most used apps on autohiding panels. Nothing on the desktop. I don't believe there is an easy menu editor for GNOME (KDE and Window maker are easier for menu and desktop ICON manipulation). However, you can add more items to the /usr/share/applications directory which is where the main menu launcher files are stored.
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How do i set the monitor to turn off after 10 minutes
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"Preferences">"Screensaver" on the menu, click the "Advanced" tab and you'll see it on the right side.
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How do you snap files and folders to a grid in icon view, like there is in windows and mac
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Don't know this one, but maybe because I'm not quite sure what you mean.
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I guess this is more of a linux question, but how do you make a file invisible without changing its name to have a . in front of it?
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You could delete it. Linux doesn't hide things from you. The closest you can get is to starting them with a ".". Of course that would be a file manager function. Maybe there is a file manager out there for Linux that does this. I never use the graphical file managers so ls+wildcards always gives me exactly what I want to see. Nothing more, nothing less.
Master of Reality:
quote:Originally posted by Billy Gates: Mac Commando:
How do you snap files and folders to a grid in icon view, like there is in windows and mac
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you mean like right click > line up icons
there should be something like that in gnome, i'm using KDE.
Master of Reality:
in Gnome its: right click>clean up
billy_gates:
quote:Originally posted by The Master of Reality / B0b:
in Gnome its: right click>clean up
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it is acutally right click and clean up by name, that means it doesn't stay in the order I wanted it.
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