Re: Beginners Linux Questions

On 25 Jan 2006 14:51:37 -0800, bobrics wrote:

> Hi,
> I have several beginners linux questions. I've tried searching the
> group for the answers, but didn't find exactly what I wanted. I am
> using Fedora Core 4.
>
> 1. I would like to save the way I set up my folder view and apply it to
> all folders. I am using Nautilius. What I want is to always see files
> in a list. I want to have an address bar where I can manually
> type/modify the directory path as in Windows. Is there an option to
> have a tree-view on the side to quickly find the directory like in
> Windows Explorer? Maybe I should use another utility intstead of
> Nautilius to achieve what I want?
>
> 2. What is the shortcut to call the terminal window?
> 3. In terminal, when I've typed in a line and would like to erase it
> completely, what is the shortcut for that? (similar to ESC in DOS)
> 4. Is there a Task Manager equivalent in Fedora? Is there a shortcut to
> call for it like CTRL-SHIFT-ESC (Windows XP)?
>
> I'll add more questions as I go on. These are the ones bug me the most
> at the moment.
>
> Thank you

1) Nautilus can do all of this. In Nautilus go to Edit then Preferences. In
the Views tab select the view you'd like. In Tree View Defaults, deselect
Show Only Folders. In the Behavior tab, select the Always open in Browser
Windows option. The rest is to your preferences. Once you have it set,
close Nautilus and restart it. It should look close to what you want now.
You should have a pane on the right. If it's something other than Tree,
like Information or something ike that, just click on word "Information" or
whatever it is and select Tree from the list. You should be close now.

2) Depends on what your terminal prog is, mine starts with "gnome-terminal"
no quotes. I'm on Ubuntu though.

3) CTRL-W erases the linne before the cursor, CTRL-C just kills the command
and starts over at a new prompt.

4) AFAIK, there are some out there that can be installed, but GNOME doesn't
come with one. The task switcher works the same though ALT-TAB

Hope this helps

--
HK
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