From kkeller-mmmspam@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us Mon Aug 18 03:56:39 2003 Path: uni-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!newsfeed.news2me.com!newsfeed2.easynews.com!newsfeed1.easynews.com!easynews.com!easynews!border3.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!intern1.nntp.aus1.giganews.com!nntp.giganews.com!nntp.speakeasy.net!news.speakeasy.net.POSTED!not-for-mail NNTP-Posting-Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 10:36:19 -0500 From: kkeller-mmmspam@wombat.san-francisco.ca.us (alt.os.linux.slackware FAQ-O-Matic) Subject: alt.os.linux.slackware FAQ (posted 2003-7-27) Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.slackware Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 08:40:16 -0700 Message-ID: <0pr0gb.9sh.ln@goaway.wombat.san-francisco.ca.us> Lines: 217 NNTP-Posting-Host: 66.92.2.169 X-Trace: sv3-Qc9vsaaD+Vn33Ry+l7hSixvW8HnH1LYtgOl98Mw+HLM/sim/Uh/IEMlnGuq7yqb2VDGIMQEgBH6XeOV!iP6MgActe46AZH7x9Q9QKSVXp9VAi2n42RcebcVMKGEuRluMwuIS6THT9gdoKa/fMoPG7ZUXYtE0!H/liFG+/+TuHaZ1IDWyqguh9La27lHw= X-Complaints-To: abuse@speakeasy.net X-DMCA-Complaints-To: abuse@speakeasy.net X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Please be sure to forward a copy of ALL headers X-Abuse-and-DMCA-Info: Otherwise we will be unable to process your complaint properly X-Postfilter: 1.1 Xref: uni-berlin.de alt.os.linux.slackware:83862 This is the weekly posting of the questions in the alt.os.linux.slackware FAQ-O-Matic. The full FAQ is available at http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/cgi-bin/fom for your convenience. If you are a new reader of the newsgroup, you are *strongly encouraged* to read the entire FAQ *before* posting a message! The following FAQ items have changed in the past week (this section may be empty): Return to the FAQ http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/1.html ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Below are pointers to each item in the FAQ. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Should I use Slackware? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/5.html What documentation comes with my Slackware installation? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/25.html I still need help! What other docs exist on the internet? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/45.html Posting guidelines for alt.os.linux.slackware http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/46.html Are there other places to discuss Slackware? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/75.html Slack Versions http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/65.html Installing Slack http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/6.html Administration for Slackers http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/7.html User Contributed Questions http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/29.html User-contributed Quick Tutorials http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/61.html Meta-FAQ http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/8.html Retired FAQs http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/44.html alt.os.linux.slackware FAQ http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/1.html When is the next version of Slackware going to be released? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/58.html How do I install Slackware? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/66.html How can I install Slackware via FTP? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/47.html Where can I get a Slackware ISO image? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/10.html Is there a package manager for Slackware? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/11.html Can I use RPMs with Slackware? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/12.html Where can I find packages built specifically for Slackware? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/13.html Which package contains ? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/14.html How much swap space should I use? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/54.html Mirrors for downloading Slackware http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/51.html How should I partition my hard disk? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/57.html How do I find out what updates are available? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/15.html What's the difference between Slackware startup scripts and System V startup scripts? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/37.html Why doesn't my work in Slackware? It worked in ! http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/20.html Why do I get a weird saying (or fortune) whenever I log in? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/16.html How come I get "--MARK--" appearing in my syslogs every few minutes? How can I turn that off? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/17.html How come I can play sound as root, but not as a normal user? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/21.html How can I start up my computer with an X login, rather than a console login? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/39.html I made changes to /etc/issue and/or /etc/motd. Why are they overwritten when I reboot? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/73.html Is there any updating tool in Slackware like Debian's apt-get or RH's up2date? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/87.html How do I uninstall software? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/86.html How do I contribute to this section? (READ ME FIRST!) http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/40.html Since Slackware 8.0, gcc can't find the gnome libraries. http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/36.html My scrollmouse won't work in X http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/38.html How do I get Vmware to work on Slackware? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/42.html Should I use Slackware (addendum)? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/49.html What happened to the forums at the Slackware website? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/50.html Why won't my Slackware 8.1 CD boot? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/62.html Where is "setup" in Slackware 8.1? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/63.html SSL Jabber doesn't work http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/68.html So what makes Slackware different from all the other distros? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/72.html THE BOZO MINI-HOWTO VERSION 0.2 http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/74.html Where can I download the book that's on the Slackware website? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/78.html I did a full install of the Slackware 9.0 ISO and I'm missing the kernel sources/KDEi packages... http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/79.html Where/How do I submit info about a bug in Slackware? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/80.html Why can I only write to my FAT32/NTFS drive as root? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/82.html Are there any guides on compiling a new kernel? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/83.html How do I get my USB mouse working in Slackware? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/84.html What do I do when someone gives me a 'Message-ID:' ? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/88.html I have a question about ... http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/90.html I get a huge font in the console/a blank screen on boot since I've installed a new kernel http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/92.html Slackware is installed. Now what? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/67.html This FAQ sucks. How can I suggest changes? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/24.html Where can I find the FAQ on the internet? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/26.html May I mirror the FAQ? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/27.html I sent you email. How come you [were rude to me | didn't answer my question] ? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/89.html What happened to the old FAQ? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/23.html I compiled OpenSSH, and installed it okay, so why can't I log in? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/18.html How do I upgrade from a previous version? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/9.html Why do I get all these messages "Unresolved symbol" and/or "can't locate module" when I boot my system? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/19.html Why are there so many stories about allocating swap space? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/53.html Why doesn't my my mouse work in X? http://wombat.san-francisco.ca.us/faqomatic/cache/22.html From thover@post2.tele.dk Mon Aug 18 04:29:31 2003 Path: uni-berlin.de!fu-berlin.de!news.tele.dk!not-for-mail Message-ID: From: Thomas Overgaard Subject: Re: Can't add wm's to the list in the login screen Newsgroups: alt.os.linux.slackware Date: Sat, 16 Aug 2003 12:58:20 +0200 References: Organization: Posted through some Jutlandish Outpost of TDC Internet A/S User-Agent: KNode/0.7.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7Bit Lines: 21 NNTP-Posting-Host: 80.63.107.204 X-Trace: 1061031379 dtext02.news.tele.dk 48910 80.63.107.204 X-Complaints-To: abuse@post.tele.dk Xref: uni-berlin.de alt.os.linux.slackware:85138 Miguel De Anda wrote: > Anyway, if somebody could help me out, that'd be great. This is how I did it. I downloaded the precompiled package from the slackware-9.0/extra tree and installed it. Then I added these 3 lines to the WM section of /etc/X11/xdm/Xsession: fluxbox) exec /etc/X11/xinit/xinitrc.fluxbox ;; Last I ran 'kcontrol' and went to "System Administration"|"Login Manager" and changed to "Administrator Mode" and at the "Sessions" pane I added fluxbox as "New type". -- Thomas O. This area is designed to become quite warm during normal operation.