Forum: Tips and Tricks

Hi Everyone LibreOffice crashed one too many times yesterday and i decided to try OpenOffice instead. I was using LibreOffice 3.3.3 and i've...

. Optional tweaks appropriate to Knoppix 6.7.1 LiveUSB that I've found useful. Summary: OS-related Minor Changes--located in usr, etc, root &...

I didn't like my 6.4.3 digital clock reading in 24hr utc, so I edited, as root, /etc/init.d/knoppix-autoconfig on the first line which...

. I posted a simple backup program on this forum a while back at:...

. I'm looking for a spell-checker for Leafpad or an equivalent choice in another small text editor that has a built-in spell-checker. I found...

This has been broken for a while, maybe nobody has reported it? When you go to Menu>Preferences>Install Components and try to install something,...

I am a complete Linux rookie, but I did manage to set up Knoppix 6.7 on my HDD along with XP. When I start up my PC, however I get a screen telling...

Seems like my post count never changes. I'm not complaining, since I have more than Klaus as it is.

. 1. LXterminal & root terminal may not retain config changes. I installed LXDE package, configured these, then deleted the LXDE package. 2....

. Here's a PCLinuxOS forum concerning LXDE: http://www.pclinuxos.com/forum/index.php?PHPSESSID=fm9qqjd22a77ctdjdbh2h8unk5&board=76.0 For...

Some One-Liners for Knoppix 6.4.4 LiveUSB made from LiveCD: /etc/X11/Xsession, change line 77 to read exec >"$ERRFILE" 2>&1 # was...

USB remastering traditionally requires lots of temporary file space. More than most people have spare on their USB sticks leading to the temptation...

. I have an occasional crash on saving a LibreOffice spreadsheet file, working with Knoppix 6.4.4. Such crashes are hard to anticipate for a...

. PCLinuxOS magazine has some exceptionally fine offerings available for free download at http://pclosmag.com/index.php/latest-mag/ This site...

If you are having some problems with lxpanel hiding not working right, you may want to see if this bug report suggests you try something else. ...

check out these little gems I stumpled upon: http://portablelinuxapps.org/ It's like a better substitute for klik :) only tested one so far and...

Attached are patches to /init that implement cheatcodes to backup and restore the Knoppix persistent store image inspired by ideas from utu. ...

For Knoppix 6, the initialisation script (init) and others were rewritten and several cheatcodes folks used under Knoppix 5 disappeared. Among these...