KeatonTech
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Posted: April 20 2007,02:54 |
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Ok, so I have an old Toshiba Portege 3020ct laptop running DSL that i'm giving to my tech-illiterate mom. I have dsl up and running just fine (I use linux a lot, i'm not really a noob), but there's a few things that I just can't figure out how to do.
1. I basically just want the machine to be firefox, I don't even need fluxbox. In the xinitrc file I took out the fluxbox stuff and replaced it with 'firefox -height 800 -width 600 www.gmail.com'. That is all well and good except for one problem, there are about 50 lines at the bottom of the screen that still show the dotted pattern that you see when dsl starts up. I tried changing the height to 850 and that didn't work. Pressing F11 helps, but that makes all of the buttons smaller and harder to click.
2. This was formerly my backup laptop, but now I got another old DSL laptop. The problem is that it has my username and password. Is there a way to change the root username and password without losing all of my settings? I do not currently have access to a pendrive to re-install DSL (long story short, i'm supposedly on vacation).
3. Without fluxbox, i need an easy way to shut the computer off. I tried the acpid mydsl extension, but that didn't seem to do anything. I'm using DSL 3.2 so there's no apt-get, and synaptic isn't working. I do have ACPI on (or forced rather) so that's not the problem. There aren't any errors, it just doesn't do anything.
Other than that DSL seems to be a great linux distro for this kinda thing because of it's customizability and ability to run almost anywhere. I actually went crazy and bough 5 toshiba portege 3010ct laptops on eBay to put DSL on and give to people (keeping one for myself of course) and i'm loving it!
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