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| Author: | williammanda [ Sun Jan 28, 2007 10:35 am ] |
| Post subject: | Customize knoppmyth |
I'm am fairly new to linux and would like to upgrade the desktop so that I can have more GUI features since i know very little about the command line. I would like to add KDE, systems tools, firefox browser,open office, etc.... I googled and read about the apt-get function but is there a more user friendly GUI program that I can get to add/remove programs. Thanks |
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| Author: | psicard [ Sun Jan 28, 2007 12:15 pm ] |
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Synaptic would probably be your best bet. |
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| Author: | williammanda [ Sun Jan 28, 2007 12:26 pm ] |
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How do I get that program...again I am new to linux. Please be more specific. Thanks |
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| Author: | williammanda [ Sun Jan 28, 2007 1:40 pm ] |
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I got from a page from google apt-get install synaptic Now I'm going to install all the other programs I wanted. |
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| Author: | thornsoft [ Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:25 pm ] |
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williammanda wrote: Now I'm going to install all the other programs I wanted.
Reminds me of that joke: What a Redneck's last words? "Hey Y'all, watch this!" You'll find that the first thing you want to get working well is tjc's backup/restore scripts. 
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| Author: | thornsoft [ Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:33 pm ] |
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Now that you've been warned..... I myself, DO VERY MUCH PREFER FireFox over MythBrowser. It's faster. It's better. It's easier to navigate, especially witih a keyboard. It's not tied to the frontend, so you can pause a show, call it up, then flip back. Alt+tab to switch windows (i.e. mythfrontend and firefox). I have bound the alt+w key (w for www) so that I can call up a new instance of firefox (if it isn't running). Here's how: in this file: /etc/X11/fluxbox/keys add this line: Code: Mod1 w :ExecCommand /myth/firefox/firefox &
Follow the wiki writeup on firefox, for installing. Now you can pause a show, press alt+w and call up FireFox, look up the show in IMDB, and smugly answer "Oh yes that IS the blind guy's partner from 'Blind Justice'". (Bad example - never, ever, pause '24' for anything). BTW, be sure to set a "home page" tab group for your frequent sites. Local weather, IMDB, Wikipedia, Google. Just have 'em all come up. If you're at your TV, and want to browser the web, chances are it's one of those sites that you're looking for. Also, btw, apt-get is probably all you need for installing most packages. |
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| Author: | psicard [ Sun Jan 28, 2007 4:34 pm ] |
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Quote: You'll find that the first thing you want to get working well is tjc's backup/restore scripts.
Indeed. I should probably have warned him instead of just answering the question.... |
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