On Tue, 27 Sep 2005, Richard Lyman wrote:
1. How do I make KDE my default log-on session?
First you have to have KDE installed. If you already do, try typing:
switchdesk kde
at the command line. If you log out and log back in, KDE should now be
your default desktop environment. If KDE is not already installed,
yum install kdebase
2. How do I get Kwrite?
Again command-line:
yum install kdeutils
If you're not so interested in doing stuff the command-line way, you can:
yum install synaptic
which will install a graphical frontend called "Synaptic" that will allow
you to install programs without (a) having to type "yum install
[packagename]" in a command-line and (b) without having to know what
packagename has the particular program you want.
3. Once I have it, how do I make it the default editor for .cpp and
.java files?
Depends on what you mean by "default editor". If you always use Konqueror
to open your .cpp and .java files, you can right-click on one of the files
in konqueror and select "Open with", select KWrite, and click "Remember
application association for this type of file".
4. How do I install the java jdk onto my linux os?
5. how do I set it up so that the linux terminal recognizes 'javac'
compile commands, and 'java' run commands?
This is a little more complex, because Sun doesn't allow Linux
distributions to distribute Java. The simplest way is to email me
privately since I have Fedora Core 3 RPMs for Java and I can put them
somewhere where you can download and easily install them. If you're
feeling more adventurous you can build the RPMs yourself by following the
instructions here:
http://fedoranews.org/mediawiki/index.php/JPackage_Java_for_FC4
The instructions are for Fedora Core 4, but looking over them I think they
should work similarly on FC3.
6. I forget the name of the menu that comes up when first booting up
(the one to choose between Linux and Windows operating systems). It
doesn't come up all the time (I have to hit 'ENTER' within 2 short
seconds, or it defaults into Linux).
7. How do I make the menu always come up?
8. how can I make it so it allows 10 seconds to choose?
9. how can I make it so the menu shows "Windows XP" instead of "other"
as the alternative option to "Fedora Core"?
Edit a file called /etc/grub.conf. (If you don't know how to edit this
file as root, let me know.) The two lines you're looking for are
"timeout=2" which you should change to the number of seconds you want it
to wait, and another line which starts "title Other" or something along
those lines, which you can change to "title Windows XP".
10. After installations of new kernals, how do I have only the most
recent show in the boot-up menu?
Again in /etc/grub.conf, just remove the lines for the kernels you don't
want to show up. If you're not sure which lines are which, post the
contents of grub.conf here and we'll help you out.
11. how do I have Windows XP the default operating system, not Fedora Core?
Again in /etc/grub.conf, the "default" line selects which operating system
boots by default. (It starts at 0, so 0 means the first one listed, 1
means the second one listed, etc.)
12. my display doesn't fill my whole screen. It's set to the highest
resolution possible (so the font is nice and small), but the GUI
window doesn't quite completely fill the screen.
If you're using a CRT (and I understand your question correctly), it just
means that Windows is using a different resolution (perhaps a different
refresh rate) than Linux, and so you may have extra black space around the
GUI window in either Linux or Windows.
Good luck!
~ Ross
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