Flux box isn’t like KDE or Gnome in the sense that there’s a ‘desktop configuration tool’. To change the desktop wallpaper, for example. you’ll have to drop into a terminal window. It’s not hard, just different.
Get the image you’d like to use as your desktop wallpaper downloaded or otherwise saved somewhere on your sytem
Open a […]
This may seem not seem complicated, but if you don’t know, you don’ t know.
When you create a symbolic link, the link file you’ve created just points to the target file. Therefore, the link file has no other purpose in life than that. So, when you want to get rid of it, just delete […]
The magic su command is normally only used to change into the superuser. However, it can be used to change into any user.
In a terminal window, type:
su username
Where username is the name of the user you want to become.
If you’re logged in as the superuser, then you will be able to become any user you […]
I’ll assume you’re in a terminal window because if you’re not, then you can simply look at the left pane of your file manager and see where you are.
In a terminal window, type:
pwd
‘pwd’ stands for ‘print working directory’ (I think).
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Sometimes my referred search strings from Google show me some interesting things. In today’s case, there were some hits for this subject, so I thought I’d address it.
The all powerful, can-do-anything user on a GNU/Linux system is called the superuser. The superuser’s username is root. Therefore, for most conversations, these two names are interchangeable.
To become […]
One of the things that threw me right away with Fluxbox is that some of the shortcuts I had become accustomed to in KDE didn’t work. Most notably, ALT+F4 brought me to the fourth desktop rather than closing the active window and ALT-F2 brought me to the second desktop instead of opening a run dialogue […]
To create user Paul and assign him to the managers group in one fell swoop, open up a terminal window. Become root and type:
useradd -g managers paul
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Ho to add a group to a GNU/Linux system.
To add a group named managers, open up a terminal window. Become root and type:
groupadd managers
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Ho to delete a user from a GNU/Linux system.
To delete user Paul, open up a terminal window. Become root and type:
userdel paul
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How to add users to a GNU/Linux system.
Open up a terminal window. As root, type:
useradd
Follow the prompts.
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