DNAR, Help with Red Hat

[pinman]

Hey Dnar, or anyone else. I'm a self admitted Linux idiot, but I've got one machine running anyway. I've got two problems:

1. Someone was messing with my Red Hat 7.1 box and now all my desktop icons are gone. How can I get them back?

2. How the h*ll do I edit my ghclient.cfg file on my Red Hat machine?

Thanks to anyone for any suggestions.

Pinman

[MechCD]

You could use gedit or emacs also.

gedit is for gnome, while emacs works anywhere :)

[MechCD]

Der, mine opens up emacs..... They are both easy to use

ugh, pinman, don't use vi. Its just hard. like that old MSDOS (before edit was a app) editor that was 1 line at a time

[pinman]

Thanks for the tips, I'll try them and let you know what happens.

pinman

[X-Calibur]

Originally posted by MechCD
Der, mine opens up emacs..... They are both easy to use

ugh, pinman, don't use vi. Its just hard. like that old MSDOS (before edit was a app) editor that was 1 line at a time
But vi is way more powerfull when you master it. your hands never have to leave the keyboard to touch that hairy rat.

:D

[Rick_Deadly]

Colon - Doubleyou - Cue :)

[pinman]

Thanks Dnar. The "gmc" command did the trick, then once I could browse to the ghclient.cfg file, editing it was a snap. Kudos.

pinman:D

[Jodie]

REAL unix hacks use vi... 'Nuff Said.
Agreed, I lurve my vi :D

For newbies, its easier to get them editing files with GUI text editors though.

[MechCD]

Urgh...... vi requires too much thinking about how to do what you want to do than doing what you actually want to do :D

[Rick_Deadly]

Originally posted by Linux
Actually to use vi, one requires much practice. It must be impregnated into the mind. Once mastered, vi is a wonderfull tool.

I agree, I find it a quick and dirty tool. Much better than Edlin :)

[Jodie]

or ed.

I've been using vi for 20+ years... At this point, I think I often dream in vi..:D

[wbierman]

thats scarry

[Jodie]

not really, I need multi-file find and replace with regular expression parsing in my dreams...

[wbierman]

that means no color....borring

[Jodie]

nope, I get color in my dreams as well as in vi under linux... I upgraded both the one in my head as well as under linux to vim!

[wbierman]

How did you manage the one in your head? Do tell!

[Jodie]

Just imagine you're upgrading, and VOILA! You're upgraded!:D

[Rick_Deadly]

I try not to upgrade in my dreams... I'm scared of a core dump. :D

[dnar]

I just hate getting dependancy problems in my dreams.... Nothing worse than getting stuck in a recursive dep prob...

[Jodie]

I NEVER do a 'make clean dep all' in my dreams... Good way to have nightmares!

[wbierman]

I prefer not to dream if I can help it.