Linux for your taste (sorry Naw :D) (17 Viewers)

[Martin]

Cool, it's working. I put the binaries I needed to usr/local/bin. the other way is I append directory I mentioned before to the PATH variable.

You can do that, yes.

export PATH=/newpath:$PATH

But the advantage of putting it in a place that's already on the PATH is that next time you log in it will just work, without having to redefine the variable again. It's a 'cleaner' way.

 

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[Alucard Belmont]

yeah, I'll follow the convention.
btw in case I want to set the path everytime I start the terminal. where to define this?

 

[Martin]

yeah, I'll follow the convention.
btw in case I want to set the path everytime I start the terminal. where to define this?

~/.bashrc and ~/.bash_profile are sourced when you log in (one or both of them) so you can declare any commands that you want to be available to you in there.

 

[Alucard Belmont]

strange, I don't find any file you mentioned there in my home directory. could it be because I'm using gnome-terminal? (preinstalled with ubuntu).

 

[Martin]

If it's not there you can create it.

 

[Alucard Belmont]

correction, it exists. but it is a hidden file. ^^

 

[Martin]

Yeah, dotfiles are.

 

[Lawnchair Bes]

whats Wine about?

can i run windows programs on it?

 

[Martin]

whats Wine about?

can i run windows programs on it?

Yes, some, not all work.

 

[Lawnchair Bes]

i believe i installed it but i cant seem to find it on the list of programs. you know how would i work with it?

 

[Martin]

Some demos: http://www.winehq.com/site?ss=10

Basically you have to install the Windows app in the same way you do on Windows and then run it, both with wine.

So:

wine setup.exe

Then

wine application.exe

 

[Lawnchair Bes]

care to explain me what happened.

bes@bes-desktop:~$ wine setup.exe
wine: creating configuration directory '/home/bes/.wine'...
Failed to open the service control manager.
wine: '/home/bes/.wine' created successfully.
wine: could not load L"c:\\windows\\system32\\setup.exe": Module not found
bes@bes-desktop:~$

 

[Martin]

Did you run this from the path where you have the setup.exe file?

 

[V]

Did you run winecfg first?

 

[Lawnchair Bes]

Did you run this from the path where you have the setup.exe file?

the setup for wine?

Did you run winecfg first?

no. how?

 

[Martin]

the setup for wine?

No, setup.exe (as an example) pertains to the Windows app you want to run. It assumes wine is already installed.

 

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[Alucard Belmont]

The xgl looks good. however too much eyecandy will decrease productivity. I mean when you're doing serious stuffs, why waste your computer resources and your eyes concentration on display effect.

 

[Martin]

Okay eyecandy addicts, here's my new desktop, it's totally bitchin:

The application is called xplanet, it renders pictures of the earth (or some other planet) every x minutes. What I also have is real time cloud cover from a meteorological site.

 

[Alucard Belmont]

Martin, what's that program to see current running process and resource usages? looks convenient.