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Quote:>I have just installed RH 5.2 with no problems.I just have three
>questions.

>I installed the HOWTO documents from the RPM,but every time I try to
>access them using the /usr/doc/HOWTO path I get "permission denied".
>What am I doing wrong?

        Check the permissions on the HOWTO directory. In order to see
anything below that level, the "x" permission has to be set.  Unix-like
systems use the x-bit on directories to control "search" permission.
And this is seperated from the simple "read" permission.  Read permission
alone will not allow one to move down into the directory.

        I suspect that somehow the umask used at install time was set
to something like 023 instead of the more usual 022.

Quote:>I have got X running with no major problems except that I dislike the
>way the desktop is so large.How can I configure the X desktop to just
>fill up one screen.

        Scan through the XF86Config file (usually in /etc/X11) and
look for a lines that say
                "Virtual    NNN MMM"
change these to the actual size of the desktop in the mode they
appear in.

Quote:>Also,when windows 95 jams up you have the "ctrl" "alt" "delete" thing
>to bail you >out,is there an equivelent of this for X?

        Most of the X servers recognize "ctrl-alt-backspace" as a command
to kill the server and dump you back to the text consoles.  Also, you can
use "ctrl-alt-FkeyN" to switch back to the text consoles while X is running.

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I have just installed RH 5.2 with no problems.I just have three
questions.

I installed the HOWTO documents from the RPM,but every time I try to
access them using the /usr/doc/HOWTO path I get "permission denied".
What am I doing wrong?

I have got X running with no major problems except that I dislike the
way
the desktop is so large.How can I configure the X desktop to just fill
up
one screen.
Also,when windows 95 jams up you have the "ctrl" "alt" "delete" thing to
bail you
out,is there an equivelent of this for X?

Thanks,
Klea