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Re: More (not so) dummy questions from a new / old user
On Wed, 10 Feb 1999, Daniel Feiglin wrote:
>1. What config file do you edit to install a programme into one of the
>fvwm95 menus? (Specifically, I uninstalled Netscape 4.07 and installed
>4.5; during the process it "dissappeared" from the relevant menu).
>Attempt to RTFM resulted in nothing useful.
fvwm has a system.fvwmrc and a .fvwmrc in your home directory. Both are
text files. Edit at will. Hint: open with favorite text editor and search
for 'PopUp'. Changes take effect upon restarting the program.
>>2. Under Windowmaker, it was quite easy to make Netscape a desktop icon
>a la OS/2. What is the relevant FM for this? For example how do you
>"unglue" the icon from an edge and put it permanently, some place else?
>
>3. Tradition has it that PATH automatically includes your current
>working directory. It seems that RH 5.1 and 5.2 using bash, have gone
>their own way. If you write (for example) hello.c and compile it to
>hello, running hello fails, but running ./hello works! Where is PATH
>actually initialised from scratch? (I finished up adding the . to the
>PATH in one of the profile scripts.) RTFM and 2 Linux kilo-books yielded
>nothing.
Including '.' in the PATH on machines used by not-so experienced users is
bad karma. It only takes so lnog until someone saves a file called 'true'
or 'if' or something wise and useful like that, and the next system script
that runs... you can guess yourself.
>>4. The codepage directories: Are these mere decorations, or can they be
>used? My 2 Linux kilo-books
>don't even have codepage in their indexes!
What is a codepage directory ? ;) POSIX manuals are a more likely place to
look for that info imho.
Peter