On Sat, Dec 01, 2001 at 08:55:12AM -0800, gong zeng wrote:
| Hi,
| I have the following queries:
No problem, but a more informative subject line is a good idea.
| 1. How do I make the gnome panel startup with X
| windows? I can't seem to find such an option.
How do you start X? Do you use [gxk]dm or login and type startx?
In either case, putting 'gnome-session' into ~/.xsession should
suffice.
| Also, the menu item "log out" in the panel only kills the
| panel. Shouldn't it allow me to exit X?
It should not kill the X server if the X server was started
independently.
The way X starts is it runs ~/.xsession. ~/.xsession is just a shell
script that will run the programs you want run at startup. The last
one (your window manager, or 'gnome-session' in your case) should be
run in the foreground. When that program terminates the X server
terminates (because it sees no reason to run anymore).
When you start X with 'gnome-session' in .xsession, doing a logout
from the panel will actually quit X (because it makes gnome-session
terminate).
| 2. Possible to maximize a window to the edge of the
| panel? Right now, the bottom boundary of the
| maximized window is hidden behind the panel.
In the control center, under "panel" in the "misc" tab there is a
setting for whether you want the panel below, even, or above other
windows. This only works for gnome-compliant window managers though.
(I use sawfish).
| 3. The gnome-terminal prompt shows "bash-2.03#" no
| matter which directory I'm in. How do I make it
| reflect the prompt I use in the bash shell; it shows
| the directory I'm in.
This is a bash issue, not gnome-terminal.
In your ~/.bashrc put
export PS1="
(\w)
`whoami`@$HOST [\!]$ "
you can customize this to be whatever you want.
| 4. How do I allow non-root user to dial to ISP through
| pon? So far, I was only able to dial out as root;
| pppd already setuid; so what am I missing here?
Add the user(s) you want to be able to dial out to the 'dialout'
group.
| I'm using potato 2.2r4. Thanks in advance.
In that case, pick 'sawmill' as the window manager. The name has
since changed due to legal issues.
-D