I have never used Open Office but here are some basics that it sounds like you need
First I am going to assume that you are using KDE due to the fact that it is very newbie friendly. On the bottom of the screen near the left corner you should see a icon that looks like a monitor with a thing in front of it that looks kind of like a sea shell, click on it . you should now have a black screen covering about 2/3 of the desktop, you are now in a console. anything that you type on the keyboard will appear in the console. the text that appears there is the command line. Not to bad so far? Sooner or latter , probably sooner you will find that you will need to su to root, thats about the most common thing that needs to be done in a console this is how you su to root. After opening the console just type su root and press enter you will be asked for a password, type in your root password. CONGRATULATIONS you have just became a super user IE a regular user with root privileges. You will have root privileges until you close the console. when you close the console you will no longer have those root privileges until the next time you su to root. OK those were the quick console and command line basics. I hope that kind of pointed you in the correct direction for console and command line stuff. The rest otta kind of fall into place as you go but it's a good Idea to keep a reference with basic commands laying around near the computer not that you will need it all that often if you prefer to do most things with a GUI but sooner or latter you will need it. On Tuesday 27 May 2003 05:14 pm, DrewMartin wrote: > Hi all, > Would it be possible for some to tell me how to do this > step by step?I'm a complete newbie,and did not expect to be using > consoles and command lines quite yet. > Thank you all for your time and patience,with some one > who one brain cell is still recovering from the chaos that was > the 80's/early90's rock/metal movement,and who is now killing it > with Single Malt Scotch!!!!!!!!!!!! > > Drew ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Warren Post" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > To: "Newbie list" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Sent: Tuesday, May 27, 2003 3:28 PM > Subject: Re: [newbie] Open Office > > El lun, 26-05-2003 a las 10:41, DrewMartin escribi�: > > When try to use Open Office the splash screen comes up,then > > nothing happens > > If you're using Gnome, perhaps the session manager is timing out > before OO can open. Here's what I posted to the list last year on > the subject: > > ---snip--- > > De: Warren Post <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Responder a: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > A: Newbie list <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Asunto: Re: [newbie] OpenOffice dies upon opening - SOLVED > Fecha: 04 Dec 2002 13:20:57 -0600 > > El dom, 01-12-2002 a las 21:21, Warren Post escribi�: > > OpenOffice.org 1.0 worked fine on my Mandrake 8.1 installation. > > But now > > that I have moved to 8.2 (clean install), OO usually dies while > > opening > > OO is open for perhaps a second and shuts itself down.. > > Thanks to everyone who offered ideas. The solution is to edit the > OOo startup script (/opt/OpenOffice.org1.0/program/soffice) and > add this line: > > unset SESSION_MANAGER > > That fixes it. Gory details at: > > http://www.openoffice.org/issues/show_bug.cgi?id=4494 > http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=81762 -- Composed on a 100% Microsoft and Windows free computer with Mandrake Linux 9.1
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