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RE: [Wylug-help] Miscellaneous Linux problems

Hi Jonathon,

Below are answers to some of your questions.

Hope they are of help.
Simon Wood

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> -----Original Message-----
> From:	B Seiwarski [SMTP:bunchily [at] hotmail.com]
> Sent:	Thursday, March 30, 2000 2:41 AM
> To:	sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz
> Subject:	[Wylug-help] Miscellaneous Linux problems
> 
> Here be a few queries some of you helpful souls might be able to assist me
> 
> with:
> 
> 1. I use SuSE 6.3.  Whilst creating new users is fairly straightforward, 
> does anyone know why KDE doesn't transfer across desktop settings (or
> video 
> mode settings, whatever) when creating new users, and therefore how to 
> change video mode configuration things so that KDE starts in the correct 
> video mode every time? (at the moment, I have to press CTRL+ALT+MINUS or 
> CTRL+ALT+PLUS every time it loads up)
[<Simon Wood>]  
The default (the one it starts up in) is defined in the XF86Config file, as
generated but SaX, xfconfig or what ever you used.
Change the 'available' resulotions so that the desired one is first in the
list.
For example xfconfig asks which ones are wanted, and assigns a number to
each. The default is 1234 I enter 4321....
If you happy editing the XF86Config file directly. This normally in
/etc/XF86Config, the bit you want to change is in the "screen section"
	Section "Screen"
	    Driver      "svga"
	    # Use Device "Generic VGA" for Standard VGA 320x200x256
	    #Device      "Generic VGA"
	    Device      "My Video Card"
	    Monitor     "My Monitor"
	    Subsection "Display"
	        Depth       8
	        # Omit the Modes line for the "Generic VGA" device
### This is the important line for 8 bpp displays ######
	        Modes       "1024x768" "800x600" "640x480"
	        ViewPort    0 0
	        # Use Virtual 320 200 for Generic VGA
	    EndSubsection

> 2. Does anyone know where the options file for Sokoban hangs out?  See,
> I'm 
> trying to copy this from one user profile to another so that I can play 
> Sokoban on a different log-in with the same level settings and stuff.  Any
> 
> ideas?  Ditto for modem ISP settings, but this is easy to replicate.
[<Simon Wood>]  
I wanted to play at home and work on the same problems, see attached email
from the author...
Oh must have deleted it... basically it has an anti-cheat feature which
could be disabled if you would recompile it.

> 3. The text editor supplied with SuSE 6.3 is not brilliant and so I'm 
> looking for a better one.  I think I've found one on the Internet, but
> does 
> anyone have any opinions/recommendations for a decent text editor?
[<Simon Wood>]  
This is a real can of worms, I like Vim. Many people have very strong
'religous' beliefs. SuSE ships with quite a few - install them and try them
out.

> 4. Graphical, WYSIWYG-style HTML editors - any ideas?  Although I can use
> a 
> text editor to create tables in HTML and Netscape to view them, it's
> hardly 
> ideal.
[<Simon Wood>]  
Text editor IS the best way to generate html, it gives you the ultimate
control. You can try searching on http://www.linuxapps.com for other
suggestions.

> 6. My CD-player hasn't managed to auto-detect the album/track titles for
> any 
> CD's whilst I've been on the Internet (it's the standard CD player
> supplied 
> with SuSE 6.3).  What am I doing wrong?  Oh, and will my machine ever be 
> able to read Apple Mac compatible CD's or will I need a special CD player 
> for that?
[<Simon Wood>]  
Try changing the 'server' that it looks for. I think you might have to
enable an auto look-up function. Look under the Tools button.

I think there is a kernel option/module for MAC filesystems... maybe you
have to load this module by hand. Don't know if this will help you...
	  +------------------------ Apple Macintosh filesystem support
(experimental) ------------------------+
	  ¦ CONFIG_HFS_FS:
¦
	  ¦
¦
	  ¦ If you say Y here, you will be able to mount Macintosh-formatted
¦
	  ¦ floppy disks and hard drive partitions with full read-write
access.                               ¦
	  ¦ Please read fs/hfs/HFS.txt to learn about the available mount
¦
	  ¦ options.

> 7. There might have been two questions contained in that last point, so
> I'm 
> making up by having another point, here, that has no question in it.
> 
> As ever, any help is greatly appreciated.
> 
> Thank you.
> 
> Jonathan (individual replies to jsmachell [at] freeUK.com)
[<Simon Wood>]  
Glad that another person has 'Seen the light', good luck....

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