On Tue, Mar 02, 2010 at 08:56:12AM -0800, Dos-Man 64 wrote: > My book is here. This looks like a good, little quick reference book. > I can finally delete directories that aren't empty :) > > I still want to find a book that deals with the internals of X, so I > can add programs to the start menu, add my own commands to the popup > menu, change icons for applications, edit the registry (if there is > one), etc. Most of the books deal only with shell commands, shell > programming, using various X applications, installation, setting up > networks, etc. > > > On Mar 2, 1:39 am, Dos-Man 64 <[email protected]> wrote: > > Oh, geesh. Links seem like a fairly complex subject (and one with no > > real equivilant in MS's command shells.) I think the worst possible > > place to investigate would be in MAN pages, which can even make the > > echo command seem complex.... > > > > On Mar 1, 3:38 pm, Scott Vargovich <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > > > Actually, you can learn quite a bit about links and how to set them up by > > > typing 'man ln' (without the quotes) in a terminal. That should give you > > > some background info until the linux book arrives. > > > > > HTH, > > > Scott > > > > > On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 10:06 PM, Dos-Man 64 <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > I'll have to try it out, thanks. I haven't studied links yet. My > > > > learning unix book doesn't cover them. I'm still waiting for that > > > > linux book I ordered to come in the mail; hopefully, it will cover > > > > them. > > > > > > On Feb 28, 9:05 am, Daniel Eggleston <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > If that's all you're after: > > > > > > > cd /media > > > > > ln -s lsi_bebdeaaidca1 D > > > > > cd D > > > > > *do stuff* > > > > > > > On Sat, Feb 27, 2010 at 11:46 PM, Dos-Man 64 <[email protected]> > > > > > wrote: > > > > > > I don't know; could I? Basically, I'm just looking to avoid having > > > > > > to > > > > > > remember cryptic names like lsi_bebdeaaidca1. What the hell does > > > > > > that > > > > > > stand for anyway? I want to be able to type in commands like > > > > > > > > cd /media/D > > > > > > cp myfile /media/D/myfile > > > > > > > > and not have to remember or type in /media/lsi_bebdeaaidca1. Yeesh. > > > > > > > > On Feb 27, 8:47 pm, Moonchild <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > > On 28-02-2010 02:27, Dos-Man 64 wrote: > > > > > > > > > > I wrote the scripts myself. Don't ask me how. I probably > > > > > > > > couldn't > > > > do > > > > > > > > it again so I burned them onto a CD to be sure I never lose > > > > > > > > them. > > > > > > > > > Maybe a silly question, but if it's just the names/paths you want > > > > > > > to > > > > be a > > > > > > bit > > > > > > > more human-readable/human-usable, couldn't you just make a > > > > > > > symbolic > > > > link > > > > > > > instead with ln? > > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux > > > > > > Users > > > > > > Group. > > > > > > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > > > > > > To unsubscribe, send email to > > > > [email protected] > > > > > > For more options, visit our group at > > > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > > > > > > -- > > > > > > > Daniel- Hide quoted text - > > > > > > > - Show quoted text - > > > > > > -- > > > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users > > > > Group. > > > > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > > > > To unsubscribe, send email to > > > > [email protected] > > > > For more options, visit our group at > > > >http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup > > > > > -- > > > <>< Scott Vargovich <>< > > > ------------------------------------------ > > > OpenPGP Key ID: F8F5DC7E > > > ------------------------------------------- Hide quoted text - > > > > > - Show quoted text -- Hide quoted text - > > > > - Show quoted text - > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Linux Users Group. > To post a message, send email to [email protected] > To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] > For more options, visit our group at > http://groups.google.com/group/linuxusersgroup Those things you're talking about are handled by the window manager (or desktop environment), not X. i.e. fluxbox has you edit ~/.fluxbox/menu, gnome and KDE both have graphical editors for their menus, and so on. There is no registry (programs maintain their own configuration files instead). This is good, because it removes that single point of failure, and makes security administration much easier. Gnome has something that looks an awful lot like a registry editor, called gconf-editor, but it only contains preferences for the desktop environment, and only for the local user (no system settings).
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