swift 06/04/09 12:39:32 Modified: hb-desktop-graphical.xml hb-desktop-plugnplay.xml Log: Small updates, less motivated currently, sorry
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Another +intuïtive media player is the GNOME-related <uri +link="http://www.gnome.org/projects/rhythmbox/";>Rhythmbox</uri>. +</p> + +</body> +</subsection> +<subsection> +<title>Office Related</title> +<body> + +<p> +With <uri link="http://www.openoffice.org";>OpenOffice.org</uri> you have a +full-featured office suite which uses a standard office file format and supports +Microsoft Office documents to a great extend. There is also the <uri +link="http://www.gnome.org/gnome-office/";>GNOME Office</uri>, a set of +separately developed applications for Word processing, Spreadsheet calculations +and database access. </p> </body> 1.3 xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/complete/hb-desktop-plugnplay.xml file : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/complete/hb-desktop-plugnplay.xml?rev=1.3&content-type=text/x-cvsweb-markup&cvsroot=gentoo plain: http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/complete/hb-desktop-plugnplay.xml?rev=1.3&content-type=text/plain&cvsroot=gentoo diff : http://www.gentoo.org/cgi-bin/viewcvs.cgi/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/complete/hb-desktop-plugnplay.xml.diff?r1=1.2&r2=1.3&cvsroot=gentoo Index: hb-desktop-plugnplay.xml =================================================================== RCS file: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/complete/hb-desktop-plugnplay.xml,v retrieving revision 1.2 retrieving revision 1.3 diff -u -r1.2 -r1.3 --- hb-desktop-plugnplay.xml 11 Feb 2006 12:59:50 -0000 1.2 +++ hb-desktop-plugnplay.xml 9 Apr 2006 12:39:32 -0000 1.3 @@ -4,7 +4,7 @@ <!-- The content of this document is licensed under the CC-BY-SA license --> <!-- See http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.5 --> -<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/complete/hb-desktop-plugnplay.xml,v 1.2 2006/02/11 12:59:50 swift Exp $ --> +<!-- $Header: /var/cvsroot/gentoo/xml/htdocs/doc/en/handbook/draft/complete/hb-desktop-plugnplay.xml,v 1.3 2006/04/09 12:39:32 swift Exp $ --> <sections> @@ -64,10 +64,70 @@ <section> <title>Removable media</title> +<subsection> +<title>What is ivman?</title> +<body> + +<p> +<c>ivman</c> is a tool that listens to hardware-related events. With this tool, +removable media can be automounted and actions can be programmed based on the +event type (such as closing a laptop's lid). +</p> + +</body> +</subsection> +<subsection> +<title>Installing and setting up ivman</title> +<body> + +<p> +To setup <c>ivman</c>, you should install it and then have it automatically +loaded up on boot: +</p> + +<pre caption="Installing and setting up ivman"> +~# <i>emerge ivman</i> +~# <i>rc-update add ivman default</i> +~# <i>/etc/init.d/ivman start</i> +</pre> + +<p> +The tool will mount removable media read/write for any user in the plugdev +group, so add your users to that group: +</p> + +<pre caption="Adding users to the plugdev group"> +~# <i>gpasswd -a user plugdev</i> +</pre> + +</body> +</subsection> </section> <section> <title>Network detection</title> +<subsection> +<title>What you can and can't do</title> +<body> + +<p> +If all your networks are nice enough to provide DHCP services, then you just +need to set your interface to ask for an IP address. However, if you need to +provide static IP addresses for a few networks, then you're out of luck: as +networks don't provide an identification service, there is no way for a computer +to know what network it is in. +</p> + +<p> +However, when you are using wireless networks, most of them do provide network +identification using the ESSID. The <uri +link="http://hostap.epitest.fi/wpa_supplicant/";>wpa_supplicant</uri> tool allows +you to pick wireless settings based on the ESSID. The Gentoo baselayout package +allows for ESSID-specific network settings. +</p> + +</body> +</subsection> </section> <section> -- [email protected] mailing list
