GNOME Questions

[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

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

"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

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?

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

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

it is acutally right click and clean up by name, that means it doesn't stay in the order I wanted it.

[billy_gates]

thanks for your help, but one more.  How do I make the numlock be one when the computer is finished booting?

[Master of Reality]

*sigh*
well... in KDE you go control panel>peripherals>keyboard>numlock on at startup

with Gnome you will probably have to write a small shell script to turn it on globally in linux.

I will post here again in a few minutes.

[Master of Reality]

alright. You use the setleds command to set numlock on (this command also sets caplocks and scroll lock).
here is a shell script that'll turn on numlock in every console.

Code: [Select]

i put that in /etc/rc.d/rc.setnum (and made it executable)
and put this line in /etc/rc.d/rc.local
# set numlock
/etc/rc.d/rc.setnum

i did this on Evil Entity 2.4 but it should work in all distros.

[Master of Reality]

am i starting to sound like void main?
Maybe i should start my own linux tips website just to compete with void main.

[voidmain]

quote:Originally posted by The Master of Reality / B0b:
am i starting to sound like void main?
Maybe i should start my own linux tips website just to compete with void main.

Please do!!!! I haven't had the focus to write more. I really want to do the PDC HOWTO and as soon as I write the first line I could have it done in a matter of an hour or so. It's writing the first line that I'm having a problem with.

And you stole that setleds snippet directly out of the setleds man page. Two points for for saving work! I believe you are catching on.

[Master of Reality]

quote:Originally posted by void main:
And you stole that setleds snippet directly out of the setleds man page. Two points for for saving work! I believe you are catching on.

i added the echo line

[billy_gates]

quote:Originally posted by The Master of Reality / B0b:
(and made it executable)

What is the chmod command to make a file executable? (if chmod is the app u use?)

[voidmain]

"chmod +x filename" will do the trick.

[billy_gates]

ok, that script thing works perfectly, until I start the Xserver.  There are something I just really hate about Gnome but there are more things I hate about KDE.  This is so hard, why?!?!?  Is there a startup folder in Gnome like windows has in the start menu or like OSX has in the Login preferences in System preferences?

[voidmain]

Or you can click "Preferences">"Control Center">"Extras">"Sessions">"Startup Programs" on the menu.