Linux Questions

[Goober]

Ok, I have just installed Linux! Ubuntu version 4.10, in fact, and I love it! Well, ok, maybe it's because my Windows is not working . . . but anyway, I have questions.

1 - Is that a easy way to minimize everything to my desktop?
2 - How can I make it so when I press down on the scroll button of my mouse, it does that little up/down arrow thingie? Like, when you press down on it, it does to those little up/down arrows, and you can scoll just by moving the mouse up and down. How do I get that to work?
3 - Is there a website with programs that you can download for this, like Realplayer and Abode and such?
4 - How do I change the resolution for my desktop? Currently its at some crazily high resolution, and, well, it kinda hurts to look at it.

Thanks in advance!

 

[Padma]

First, a disclaimer: I use Mandrake/KDE, not Ubuntu/Gnome.

1) There should be a button on your taskbar for that, like Windows. At least, KDE has one.

2) I don't know - that might take mouse-specific drivers,and not be available in free-engineered drivers in Linux.

3) Absolutely! I don't know where it is for Ubuntu, but try ggogling for "apt-get" and "ubuntu", or ask at LinuxQuestions.org.

4) Might depend on your graphics card, but there should be a way. I can do it in Mdk/KDE using an ATI-9000. Seacrh in LinuxQuestions for it, maybe.

 

[Goober]

1 - Ya, I figured that out. Thanks.
2 - Hmm . . . perhaps I need to play around with my settings some more . . . tis not a big deal anyway . . .
3 - I found RealPlayer, and it already came with a program to view .pdf files, but thanks for the link!
4 - Found that as well.

I have more questions!

5 - Can you change the skin?
6 - How do I close a program that is messing up with keyboard commands? I already tried "Ctrl-Esc", didn't work.
7 - How do I find out how much more space I have left on my Linux Partition?

Thanks again!

 

[Padma]

5) Skin? For which program? If you mean the "theme" for your desktop, there should be *some* tool to play with Gnome themes, but I don't know what it is. Sorry.

6) Open a console/terminal window. type "ps -u RealGoober". Find the program that is misbehaving. Type "killall <program-name>" (taking <program-name> from the 'ps' output). If that doesn't work, try "kill -9 <pid>", with <pid> from the 'ps' output.

7) In a console/terminal window, type "df". (Short for "diskspace free". )

 

[Goober]

Thanks again, Padma!

5 - Yes, it is called "Themes". I chose the simplest one with the best performance.
6 - I found another way, there is a Force Quit button. What I want now is a Force Quit keyboard sequence . . .
7 - Thanks!

I'll be back if I have more questions.