[ale] Misc setup questions

David Hamm dhamm at itserve.com
Tue Jan 21 16:43:53 EST 1997


On 21-Jan-97 Michael Morris wrote:
>I'm configuring my machine with RedHat 4.0 and I have a few
>miscellaneous questions:
>
>(1) If I want to run xautolock to lock my screen, where is the proper
>place to put the execute command so that xautolock starts-up only once
>when I start fvwm95?
>
>(2) I know what a RPM (RedHat Package Manager) is, but what is a SRPM?
Source RPMS.   If you want to edit the source code these are where it is.

>(3) I have Linux and WIN95 loaded on the same machine. Why can't I see
>the WIN95 long file names from Linux?
Edit you'r fstab to so that the Win95 mount looks like this.  

/dev/hda1                 /mnt/w95                  vfat   uid=500,gid=500 1 0

uid and gid are set to 500 so that the files are owned by me.

>(4) If I want to change my windows manager from fvwm95 to AfterStep,
>what is involved?
>
>Thanks for your help
>
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Date: 21-Jan-97
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