Linux Thin Clients - "Office-Worker Linux: It's Here and It Works"

[W. Wayne Liauh]

Sorry for being so lazy, but do you know where <path> is in Red Hat 7.1?
Thanks.


Warren Togami wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "W. Wayne Liauh" <LiauhW001 at Hawaii.rr.com>
> To: "Linux & Unix Advocates & Users" <luau at list.luau.hi.net>
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2001 10:24 PM
> Subject: [luau] Re: Linux Thin Clients - "Office-Worker Linux: It's Here and
> It Works"
>
> > I recently installed RH 7.1 with KDE, and was very impressed as to how
> > things have changed from a year ago.  Before I try to find answers
> > myself, there are a couple of questions:
>
> RH 7.1 is very nice, but you'll be amazed by the improvements coming in 7.2.
> I'm using the beta at the moment, and it is very very cool.  The user
> interface improvements are many, many server software improvements,
> security... and it will be the first Red Hat distribution to support a
> journaling filesystem.  Using ext3 instead of ext2, you will be able to pull
> the plug on your server, turn it back on and be back up and running in less
> than a minute, without a lengthy filesystem integrity check.
>
> >
> > (1)  I don't seem to find a quick and easy way to do power management
> > from KDE.  An "xset +dpms" command from the xterm does not do the
> > trick.  Am I missing something?
>
> Sorry I don't know anything about power management.  I'll ask this on the
> Red Hat mailing list.
>
> >
> > (2) One of the advantages of X 4.0.2 and latter is the anti-alias
> > fonts.  Is there any script to turn this on?
>
> It exists, but it doesn't work so great with the software included in Red
> Hat 7.1.  For best results, you should probably upgrade to KDE 2.2 and
> Microsoft's True Type fonts.  Within a few days Red Hat will release easy to
> install RPM packages to upgrade to KDE 2.2, so wait for that.  You can
> easily install Microsoft's True Type fonts using this package.
> http://freshmeat.net/projects/webfonts4linux/
> Simply use "chkfontpath -a <path>" after you run that script, restart X and
> your fonts will be dramatically nicer.
>
> >
> > (3) Is there any way to defaut into KDE?
> >
> > I have some other issues but they are mainly involving the WordPerfect
> > suite.  Basically I am awaiting a stablized version of WINE, and will
> > discuss this issue later.
> >
>
> There's probably some GUI tool to set it, but I never bothered looking.
> Quicker editing a simple text file anyhow than navigating menus that you'll
> never have to navigate again.
>
> Simply edit:
> /etc/sysconfig/desktop
> And change the contents to
> DESKTOP="KDE"
>
> Warren Togami
> warren at togami.com
>
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