Re: [Sheflug - Sheffield Linux User's Group] newbie needs help/java

[Craig Andrews <nospam [at] fishbot.free-online.co.uk>]

Rightio then...

StarOffice, you should just be able to select it in yast with an [X] and
press F10 a few times. Then select Start Installation and bobs yer uncle.

When this is done, log in as you and start X, and in an xterm, type
soffice. This will install a local client version of star office for you
to use (about 1.7M). Should take about 2 minutes.


Starting a graphical login is fairly simple. Go into YaST, System
Administration, Login Configuration. Then select Graphical from the drop
down list. Select kdm as the display manager for easy shutdowns, and
select local for the shutdown behaviour.

Onto shutting down... there are three ways to shut down. a) use kdm, which
we have just set up, b) su to root and type 'shutdown -h now' and c) the
three fingered salute (CTRL-ALT-DEL). This will most likely reboot the
machine as opposed to shutting it down, but this can be changed in the
system security bit in YaST. CTRL-ALT-DEL can be done by any user, but not
in X.

My favoured way of shutting down is ensure everything is saved in X, and
press:

CTRL-ALT-F1
CTRL-ALT-DEL

Tada, insta-shutdown! I do have shutdown behaviour set to 'halt' tho'

Let me know how you get on

Craig Andrews
craig@fishbot.free-online.co.uk

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On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Pete Smith wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, you wrote:
> > Why not use the StarOffice RPM in the pay series of the SuSE disks? (Use
> > YaST). Automates everything! Also, when you do a client install to your
> > own home dir, the Java bit is already there.
> > 
> > 
> > Craig Andrews
> > craig [at] fishbot.free-online.co.uk
> 
> Thanks for the reply Craig, but I'm afraid I'm to thick/new to understand what
> you're telling me to do. I have found 5.1 among the pacages but cannot get yast
> to install it for me :((
> 
> So next question. When I installed suse 6.4 I had to do so using (old Yast) as
> my pc will not boot from cd, so I ended up with a text based login (bash??) I
> have to enter "startx" in order to get to KDE. I would prefer a graphical login
> if poss but not too bothered about that, my problem is doing a logout. I logout
> of kde which gets me back to the command line. I have tried "logout/exit" ect
> ect ect  but whenever I reboot I get the message "/dev/hda6 not unmounted
> properly" so how do I shutdown correctly.
> Ta for the help
> Pete.
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