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Using this site

To use this site in the best way possible, you will need to understand how to use it properly.

Finding the Terminal

When I say run a command, I mean to use the command line interface. You can use a terminal emulator to run commands in X. To get to the terminal you will need to:

In KDE

K Menu >> System >> Konsole (Terminal Program)

In Gnome

Applications >> Accessories >> Terminal

In Xfce

Xfce menu >> Accessories >> Terminal

I'm sure that if you're using a window manager like Openbox/Fluxbox that you'll be clever enough to find the terminal for yourselves Wink

Commands

This website makes it very easy to understand whether to run a command as root or as a regular user. A command to be run as root will look similar to: nano /etc/rc.conf tips, extra information will look like (and it is relevant to what you will read): Note
If you are using sudo, add sudo before every command like the above e.g. sudo nano /etc/rc.conf a command to be run as a regular user will look like this: man pacman and a command relating to Pacman, Arch Linux's package manager, it will look like this: pacman -S somepackage

Other elements

Quoting a file will look like

DAEMONS=(syslog-ng sensors net-profiles alsa hal cups cpufreq)

If you need to add/remove something, it will be in bold like this:

DAEMONS=(sensors net-profiles alsa hal cups cpufreq)

Screen Resolution Compatibility

This site looks best in a resolution at 1024x768 or higher. Does anyone actually use 800x600 anymore?

Web Browser Compatibility

I have tested this website in Konqueror, Opera and Firefox, and should work in your browser. If it doesn't, send me an email via the contact page. The site is 100% XHTML 1.0 strict standards compliant, so if it doesn't work, or there are weird bugs, you should either get a new browser, or tell me and I'll try and fix it. Browsers with compatibility with the CSS3 tag "text-shadow" (namely Webkit based browsers, Opera and Konqueror) will get some nice glow effects and shadows Smile Also web browers with support for "border-radius" will get rounded corners on boxes. This is only available on Webkit based browers (like Safari, Google Chrome, Arora, Midori etc.) and Firefox/Gecko based browsers.