LINUX : A Desktop Quick Reference
LINUX : A Desktop Quick Reference
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Author(s): Figgins, Stephen
Hekman, Jessica P.
Siever, Ellen
Spainhour, Stephen
ISBN No.: 9780596000257
Pages: 816
Year: 200008
Format: Trade Paper
Price: $ 49.18
Status: Out Of Print

Preface; Other Resources; Conventions; We'd Like to Hear from You; Acknowledgments;Chapter 1: Introduction; 1.1 The Excitement of Linux; 1.2 Distribution and Support; 1.3 Commands on Linux; 1.4 What This Book Offers; 1.5 Sources and Licenses; 1.6 Beginner's Guide;Chapter 2: System and Network Administration Overview; 2.1 Common Commands; 2.


2 Overview of Networking; 2.3 Overview of TCP/IP; 2.4 Overview of Firewalls and Masquerading; 2.5 Overview of NFS; 2.6 Overview of NIS; 2.7 Administering NIS; 2.8 RPC and XDR;Chapter 3: Linux Commands; 3.1 Alphabetical Summary of Commands;Chapter 4: Boot Methods; 4.


1 The Boot Process; 4.2 LILO: The Linux Loader; 4.3 Loadlin: Booting from MS-DOS; 4.4 Dual Booting Linux and Windows NT/2000; 4.5 Boot-time Kernel Options; 4.6 initrd: Using a RAM Disk;Chapter 5: Red Hat and Debian Package Managers; 5.1 The Red Hat Package Manager; 5.2 The Debian Package Manager;Chapter 6: The Linux Shells: An Overview; 6.


1 Purpose of the Shell; 6.2 Shell Flavors; 6.3 Common Features; 6.4 Differing Features;Chapter 7: bash: The Bourne-Again Shell; 7.1 Overview of Features; 7.2 Invoking the Shell; 7.3 Syntax; 7.4 Variables; 7.


5 Arithmetic Expressions; 7.6 Command History; 7.7 Built-in Commands; 7.8 Job Control;Chapter 8: csh and tcsh; 8.1 Overview of Features; 8.2 Invoking the Shell; 8.3 Syntax; 8.4 Variables; 8.


5 Expressions; 8.6 Command History; 8.7 Command-Line Manipulation; 8.8 Job Control; 8.9 Built-in csh and tcsh Commands;Chapter 9: Pattern Matching; 9.1 Filenames Versus Patterns; 9.2 Metacharacters, Listed by Linux Program; 9.3 Metacharacters; 9.


4 Examples of Searching;Chapter 10: The Emacs Editor; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Typical Problems; 10.3 Summary of Commands by Group; 10.4 Summary of Commands by Key; 10.5 Summary of Commands by Name;Chapter 11: The vi Editor; 11.1 Review of vi Operations; 11.2 vi Command-Line Options; 11.


3 ex Command-Line Options; 11.4 Movement Commands; 11.5 Edit Commands; 11.6 Saving and Exiting; 11.7 Accessing Multiple Files; 11.8 Interacting with the Shell; 11.9 Macros; 11.10 Miscellaneous Commands; 11.


11 Alphabetical List of Keys in Command Mode; 11.12 Syntax of ex Commands; 11.13 Alphabetical Summary of ex Commands; 11.14 vi Configuration;Chapter 12: The sed Editor; 12.1 Conceptual Overview; 12.2 Command-Line Syntax; 12.3 Syntax of sed Commands; 12.4 Group Summary of sed Commands; 12.


5 Alphabetical Summary of sed Commands;Chapter 13: The gawk Scripting Language; 13.1 Conceptual Overview; 13.2 Command-Line Syntax; 13.3 Patterns and Procedures; 13.4 gawk System Variables; 13.5 Operators; 13.6 Variable and Array Assignments; 13.7 Group Listing of gawk Commands; 13.


8 Alphabetical Summary of Commands;Chapter 14: CVS and RCS; 14.1 Basic Concepts; 14.2 The CVS Utility; 14.3 CVS Administrator Reference; 14.4 CVS User Reference; 14.5 The RCS Utility; 14.6 Overview of RCS Commands; 14.7 Basic RCS Operations; 14.


8 General RCS Specifications; 14.9 Alphabetical Summary of RCS Commands;Chapter 15: GNOME; 15.1 Desktop Overview; 15.2 The Panel; 15.3 The Main Menu; 15.4 The GNOME Control Center;Chapter 16: KDE; 16.1 Desktop Overview; 16.2 The Panel and Taskbar; 16.


3 The KDE Control Center;Chapter 17: An Alternative Window Manager: fvwm2; 17.1 Running fvwm2; 17.2 Configuration Files; 17.3 A Modular Approach; 17.4 How to Implement Window Manager Customizations; 17.5 A Quick Tour of the fvwm Environment; 17.6 Specifying Click-to-Type Focus; 17.7 Raising the Focus Window Automatically; 17.


8 Changing the Size of the Desktop; 17.9 Having Multiple Desktops; 17.10 Making the Same Window Appear on Every Page; 17.11 Starting Windows on Different Desktops and Pages; 17.12 If It's Too Hard (or Easy) to Move the Pointer Between Pages; 17.13 Adding Keyboard Shortcuts; 17.14 Customizing Menus; 17.15 The FvwmWinList: Switching the Focus;Colophon;.



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