That's a good question. Unfortunately, a lot of times you just have to know. But, there are good resources on the Internet, although I don't have any URLs handy. Also, keep in mind that 'man' can help you dig through documentation based on keywords. For example, I may want to know everything that has the term "resolution" in it:
$ man -k resolution clock_getres (2) - Get the resolution of any clock gimpprint-resolutions (7) - Gimp-Print print resolutions --- Puryear Information Technology, LLC Baton Rouge, LA * 225-706-8414 http://www.puryear-it.com Author: "Best Practices for Managing Linux and UNIX Servers" "Spam Fighting and Email Security in the 21st Century" Download your free copies: http://www.puryear-it.com/publications.htm Monday, February 5, 2007, 8:23:48 AM, you wrote: > I have a 900MHz laptop with Fedora 6 installed. Gnome and KDE both > slog it down. Not the the point of unusability, mind you, but I like > things to be zippy. > So I installed fluxbox. > But I lost all my fancy gui-based Gnome config utils. It's okay, > though, because I know those are all just frontends for command line > utils. But how do I learn them?! In Gnome, if I wanted to change > something, I'd go to the system menu and look. But without a visual > reference, how would I know that xrandr changes the resolution? > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net
