On Tue, 14 Dec 1999, Scott Felton wrote about, Few Questions:
> I've just installed Slackware 7.0 after wiping out my old 3.6 and I'm
> having fun configuring it. I have a few newbie questions I haven't found
> answers to in my reading.
>
> 1: Is there a utility to view all the available colors in Linux. What I
> mean is when I tell an app in a config file to use "DarkSlateGrey" or
> whatever, is there a program I can run to see what DarkSlateGrey
> actually looks like?
I know of no utility for this, you are talkin in X terms here i think, i
will address Slackware in the console mode as i know a little more about
that than i do about X, i am in no way an X-pert. ;-)
Check the file /etc/DIR_COLORS it has a list of colors and which numbers
that color is maped to, + a list of what colores are defined to which type
of file.
You can do all sorts of things on a per user basis with .dir_colors in your
own account.
> 2: Is there a way to open an xterm as root or automagically log in as
> root after it opens (preferably right from .xinitrc). I find I keep
> changing between normal user and su so much, I thought it would be
> easier to have one xterm on my desktop with a -title of "root", so I'd
> remember not to play in there unless I need to and yet I wouldn't have
> to keep doing the su password thing. I sometimes forget "whoami" and I
> thought an xterm dedicated to root on my desktop may help remind me who
> I am!
Some X window managers have an icon or a definition in the menu for a root
console, i have slackware 7 here and i use kde, there is an option in a
xterm for a root console, but i think that is what you do now with su.
You can of course have a permanent window for root, i use window number 8
for a root console, i simply opern a user terminal and then su.
I know its not what you ask, but there is no need to keep logging in and
out.
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Regards Richard
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Merry Xmas.
