On Friday 05 October 2001 10:50 pm, you wrote: > Hello, > > I just started getting into Linux and I have two > questions: > > 1) How do I change the screen resolution size? > Right now it is at 640x480 and I would like it at > 800x600. How do I do that?
Go to the Mandrake Control Center. Which should be on your desktop. I'm pretty sure the Control Center is accessable from all window managers. From there go to hardware > display. > 2) I just installed WINE and another program > (FreeAmp), but I don't see any icons for these. Where > does the install normally put these programs? > type in a terminal "which freeamp" which should show you where it is if it was installed in a standard location. I've yet to install a program that will create an icon and stick it somewhere for you. You can do that yourself, but it depends on what window manager you are using. Even if you did have an icon for wine, it probably wouldn't be very helpful. You need to tell wine on the command line what windows program it should attempt to run. Before you do that you need to set up your wine config file. If you're brand new to linux, I'd stay away from wine. Get a feel for the OS, then try it out. It's a somewhat difficult program to use. > Yes, I am a Windows person, but I am looking > forward to using another OS. I highly recommend "Running Linux" by Matt Welsh (and a few other people). Others have recommended "Linux in a Nutshell" but I've never read it. In the areas that Linux is like Windows, it's a lot like Windows. But in the areas that it's different from Windows, it's *very* different from Windows. Matt
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