Peter Hunter wrote:
On Thu, 2005-07-07 at 22:05 +0100, Peter Onion wrote:
"ls -al" is what you need when looking for things in a directory, not some browser thing-a-ma-bob ! Next you'll be telling us you used to use windows ! ;-)
As a 'novice' I have no idea what 'ls -al' is all about, but I certainly would like to know, maybe you would explain it for me. Whilst on the subject of command line instructions, a little while ago I picked up a book "UNIX The Complete Reference". Knowing that Linux is based on UNIX, can I assume that this book will help me with Linux, or are the two separate?
You should be OK with it. Looking at the table of contents on Amazon (assuming it's the same book), it has a chapter on Linux, so hopefully it will point out any differences between linux and other unices in the rest of the book.
One major problem though, and one miner 'niggle'.
The big problem first: When I boot the system (or re-boot), once it's all loaded I get an error box on the screen that says: "Failed to load image ximian - openoffice - writer.png" Details: icon not found. I click ok and the box goes and never comes back. Open Office loads okay (it's OO02) and everything about it 'seems' to be working. So what do I need to do to stop that error message, and, HOW do I do it?
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Try deleting the icons for Open Office and Evolution on the desktop and adding them again. I've gotten similar errors after an upgrade changed the name of the executable program or when I reinstalled the OS whilst keeping my old config files.
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