zentara wrote:

Juergen Braukmann wrote:

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zentara wrote:

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Hi, I'm trying to move from Caldera to Suse. All is going fairly well , except for a few things.

1. Where is my .bashrc file ? There isn't one in the root directory? Why does Suse do it different? Do I just create my own?

a .bashrc file should be in your home directory. if it is not there create it.

Hi, thanks guys for the tips. I did get the widgets out by edit the.fvwm2rc file. But I guess I should use KDE for "drag and drop". Although the empty fvwm2 desktop sure is nice; I'll just have to figure out how to add my programs to the menus.

just read the configuration file. after a while it gets clear how to do things. I added a few features myself, but as I pointed out earlier, as soon as I regenerate a .fvwm*rc all is gone and has to be replaced again by hand.

I still have one problem which perplexes me. I have the .bashrc files in my root and user directories, but it dosn't affect the root bash.

hmmm. I have seen that on our SINIX system at work. root is trated differently. maybe there is some file in /etc that contains info about this, what I did on SINIX was quite obvious: I added an other entry in /etc/profile that is (hopefully) run for every terminal login. disadvantage: this sets the editor for everyone.

Let me clarify. Being a beginner, I prefer to use Joe as my editor, instead of the default vi. I basically use Midnight Commander for everything. If I put the line "export EDITOR= /usr/bin/joe" in the .bashrc file, Joe will open up my files in MC when I hit the F4 button. This works fine for my user's home directories. However, when I put it in the root's .bashrc ; vi still comes up when root hits MC's F4 button. What am I missing? I know it pays to know vi, but I prefer joe.

it realy pays. i prefer asedit from X. my knowledge of vi -although I use it much- is almost zero. Jürgen -- ========================================== __ _ Jürgen Braukmann e-mail: brauki@cww.de | / / (_)__ __ ____ __ Tel: 0201-743648 dk4jb@db0qs.#nrw.deu.eu | / /__/ / _ \/ // /\ \/ / ========================================== /____/_/_//_/\_,_/ /_/\_\ -- To get out of this list, please send email to majordomo@suse.com with this text in its body: unsubscribe suse-linux-e