cbagger01
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Posted: Jan. 14 2005,06:48 |
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Command prompt:
You can either boot into text mode with "dsl 2" boot command
or you can exit the windowmanager while in xwindows.
Or you can choose Xshells -> Rxvt dark from the fluxbox menu (Right click menu).
The black box is called a Pager.
To understand how a pager works, you need to understand the concept of a "workspace".
In MS Windows, your entire workspace is displayed on your computer screen. It is your desktop.
In many Linux Window managers, like the Fluxbox one that comes with DSL, you are defaulted to 3 (or sometimes even more than 3) workspaces.
This means that you can have 3 screenfuls of "stuff" that is displayed on your computer screen. So, for example, you can load up a web browser on one workspace and have the window fill up the entire screen. You can then move over to workspace #2 and load up an e-mail program and have it take over the entire screen. And you can load up a game on workspace #3.
The little arrows on the left side of your bottom taskbar allow you to toggle back and forth between workspace #1, #2, and #3.
Now how does this relate to the black pager window in the lower left corner?
The pager window lets you see a tiny screencapture of each workspace. This is why it appears like it is divided into thirds.
So in my example above, a tiny picture of your web browser would appear in the lefthand pager window, a tiny picture of your email program would appear inside the middle pager window and a tiny picture of your game would appear inside the righ hand window.
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