-
Junior Member
registered user
A simple problem eluding me
OK, A very simple problem is eluding me that I could sure use your help with.
I put Knoppix on an 8GB USB flash drive. I was playing around with the desktop settings (right click on desktop for the menu). I turned off some option that allowed the menu for right clicking on the desktop. Now when I right click on the desktop, nothing comes up. So, I need to know where I can turn that option back on, so that right click on the desktop brinks up that menu.
Also, how can I add menu items to the application menu?
Also, how can I make a new Link to another file or directory on the desktop.
Also, where can I change default paper size to "letter size" in LibreOffice? The printer is already set, but every new document I create, defaults to A4. Very annoying.
Thanks for your time.
Edit: Oh, I'm on version 6.7.0.
-
Senior Member
registered user
Greetings, Bothersome.
It would be helpful & preferable in the future if you'd not try to cover so many topics all in one post.
In regards the lxmenu, there's no current easy way to edit menus. There is a later version of lxde that has that feature, but Debian is about a year behind in getting it out to us.
Link question is unclear what you want.
LibreOffice answer is simple enough Format/Page.../Format; yup, A4 is default;
so change it.
The right-click problem is a classic, and someone has posted the solution.
Use the forum search function.
And good luck.
Last edited by utu; 08-24-2011 at 12:24 AM.
-
Senior Member
registered user
Originally Posted by
utu
LibreOffice answer is simple enough Format/Page.../Format; yup, A4 is default;
so change it.
In Writer, that is.
-
Junior Member
registered user
The link question might be a symlink question.
I'll give up on the idea of adding menu items at the moment.
Comment:
It's strange that the people that develop Linux/KDE/Gnome want users to use their systems. They make the systems look like windows and copy layouts and whatnot to help make things easier to the Windows users for transition. Yet, they don't include the simple things that make the system a bit more intuitive. This is exactly what frustrates the Windows user. Making the user think it all a big waste of time and that the systems the developers have put together is just not ready yet. Do you want the system to look and feel like Windows or not? If so, then get the interface to feel like it too. If not, tell us now so we can quit wasting our time on it.
I take it, re-enabling that context menu for the desktop is a difficult thing to do, else someone would have just posted the quick solution. The option of turning it off should have never been put in the system in first place.
Oh and I just tried that layout > Page and put it to letter size, yet when I close LibreOffice and start it up again, it is again on A4. It does not change the default to letter size. Or did miss something?
Last edited by Bothersome; 08-24-2011 at 01:50 PM.
-
Senior Member
registered user
Originally Posted by
Bothersome
Oh and I just tried that layout > Page and put it to letter size, yet when I close LibreOffice and start it up again, it is again on A4. It does not change the default to letter size. Or did miss something?
There are, I thought, three places to go wrong here:
ok your choice; save your document; and persistent store.
I understand your annoyance a little better now.
I'll see if 6.4.4 offers any clue.
-
It's strange that the people that develop Linux/KDE/Gnome want users to use their systems. They make the systems look like windows and copy layouts and whatnot to help make things easier to the Windows users for transition. Yet, they don't include the simple things that make the system a bit more intuitive.
... you did a look at Knoppix and you damn Linux.Knoppix is a "collection" of hundreds of tools and programs from KDE, Gnome, LXDE and so on. It isn't designed as a distribution with a uniform look and feel as perhaps Debian, openSUSE or (especially for newcomers from Windows) Ubuntu. If you for example have a look at Ubuntu, you will find all the "simple things that make the system a bit more intuitive".
Greetings Werner * http://www.wp-schulz.de/knoppix/summary.html
Own Rescue-CD with Knoppix (Knoppix V6.7.0 remaster)
-
Also, where can I change default paper size to "letter size" in LibreOffice? The printer is already set, but every new document I create, defaults to A4. Very annoying.
... change the entry of '/etc/papersize/' (as root) from "a4" to "letter".
Last edited by Werner P. Schulz; 08-24-2011 at 03:55 PM.
-
Also, how can I add menu items to the application menu?
... what a menu item do you need. Most of the installed programs have a entry in '/usr/share/applications/'.
But you can edit existing entries or add new entries: http://wiki.lxde.org/en/Main_Menu
The mentioned LXDE-menu-editor I've never tried.
-
Senior Member
registered user
There does seem to be some kind of first-time-use stickiness with my 6.7 LiveUSB.
If you save as 'untitled 2' there's no problem; moreover 'untitled 1' will also hold changes after
doing the 'untitled 2' thing. No such first-time-use thing with either 6.4.4 or 6.7 LiveCD's.
As Werner says, you probably want to change the DEFAULT anway.
That would have been the next question.
-
I was playing around with the desktop settings (right click on desktop for the menu). I turned off some option that allowed the menu for right clicking on the desktop. Now when I right click on the desktop, nothing comes up.
... oh, this old error!
Try this.
Posting Permissions
- You may not post new threads
- You may not post replies
- You may not post attachments
- You may not edit your posts
-
Forum Rules
IBM 8203 E4A p520 Server 8203-E4A 4.2GHz 2-Core POWER6 32GB RAM / NO HDD USED
$99.99
IBM Power S822 12-Bay Server System Power8 Core 3.42Ghz DVD-Rom Drive 64GB No HD
$399.99
ibm server z series
$16000.00
IBM System x3250 M4 Server Intel Xeon E3-1220 3.10GHz 8GB RAM No HDDs
$49.74
IBM Power 720 POWER7 00E6516 3.6GHz CPU 64GB RAM Server
$209.98
IBM Power 740 8205-E6C Express 8-SFF Power7 3.55GHz CPU 64GB RAM *No HDD* Server
$191.99
IBM 7944AC1 System x3550 M3 Server 1*Intel Xeon X5650 2.67GHz 4GB SEE NOTES
$26.97
IBM System x3550 M4 Server 2 x Intel Xeon E5-2609 36GB RAM No HDDs
$68.84
IBM Power S822 8284-22A 2.5" 12-Bay 64GB 2X 00ND478 2X 00E2865 *READ*
$599.99
IBM Lenovo X3650 M5 2U 8x 2.5” CTO Rack Server – 2x HS, 2x 750W
$199.00