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voidmain:
For all of those who are using RedHat and for those who are thinking about using RedHat I *highly* recommend browsing through the online documentation. I haven't done it in quite some time but there are some exellent resources there. Here is the list of RedHat 8.0 manuals:

http://www.redhat.com/docs/manuals/linux/RHL-8.0-Manual/

There are manuals for all of the other versions as well. But for those that are already using RedHat I would highly recommend at least browsing and getting familiar with the "Customization Guide", the "Security Guide", and the "System Administrator Primer", and the "Reference Guide". For those who are thinking about installing RedHat start out with the "Installation Guide". I found them chock full of answers to questions I have seen on this forum many many times. At least get familiar with what is there so you'll know where to go when you need it. Enjoy!

voidmain:
Hey, even the "Getting Started Guide" looks useful to both new and old, especially for all the changes with RedHat 8.0.

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Now I have a question. Everything seems to have gotten so GUI in RH8. I used to use KDE and it was easy to right click on a desktop shortcut ICON and view/change the properties. It seems in Gnome/BlueCurve I can not do this. It's no problem because I can go into ~/.gnome-desktop and "vim" them. There has to be a nice graphical way to do this doesn't there? What am I missing? I didn't see it anywhere in the Getting Started guide so I assume the ability does not exist.

The only way I have been able to do it graphically was to drag the desktop ICON to the panel, right click the ICON in the panel which does allow you to change the properities, then drag it back to the desktop, then delete the old desktop ICON and the panel ICON. Pretty ugly, there *must* be an easier way... Be damned if I can figure it out. Damn GUIs.    
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I've come to the conclusion that they just don't want you putting ICONs on the desktop. Fortunately it's easy to add panels (I set them to autohide and shrink them down). I will start putting all my shortcut ICONs on these panels.
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[ November 22, 2002: Message edited by: void main ]

Master of Reality:
use KDE!!

voidmain:
Actually I like the panels more and more now that I use them. I never click on Desktop ICONS anyway because I have to move stuff out of the way in order to do that. The autohiding panels are perfect! But I would consider going back to KDE if you can tell me how to fix the Konqueror fonts that RedHat has screwed up so nicely. And I don't want to have to uninstall the BlueCurve version and install a stock KDE.

Master of Reality:
you must mean this problem??? I dont see anything wrong, but i prefer Mozilla anyway.

[ November 22, 2002: Message edited by: The Master of Reality / B0B ]

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