I've got to second what Dustin wrote. Really for now, start with google. Just search for anything you need to do, and you will probably find a command line tutorial or set of instructions. In the beginning, I would stay away from man pages. Until you are more familiar with doing things on your own, the man pages might be overwhelming.
On 2/5/07, Dustin Puryear <dustin at puryear-it.com> wrote: > > 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 > > > _______________________________________________ > General mailing list > General at brlug.net > http://mail.brlug.net/mailman/listinfo/general_brlug.net > -- Michael Dolan -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: /pipermail/general_brlug.net/attachments/20070205/7165c31d/attachment.html
