Other Help Topics :: desktop appears different on reboot
1: Ah, ok.. I thought that was used space. My bad.
2: So the little slide bar is the volume?
3: I'm a bit confused on that part.. but I'll mess around and see if I can figure it out.
Thanks again for all the help. 
2. Probably - if your sound is working already.
You didn't get to type (or it looked like that) 'cause that's how password boxes are on Linux; you don't get stars, like *cough* win *cough* that would let someone see how many keys are there... Be sure to change your root pass to something you remember...
With that mount app in lower left corner, you can, well, mount stuff..
Nano is an easy editor: click Aterm, type "nano /home/dsl/.xinitrc" and you're editing it. When done, control and x exits...
Prepend means like this:
this is a line before editing
#this is da line after prepending a # to it
original here.