[brlug-general] Learning the command line

[Dustin Puryear]

That's a good question. Unfortunately, a lot of times you just have to
know. But, there are good resources on the Internet, although I don't
have any URLs handy. Also, keep in mind that 'man' can help you dig
through documentation based on keywords. For example, I may want to
know everything that has the term "resolution" in it:

$ man -k resolution
clock_getres         (2)  - Get the resolution of any clock
gimpprint-resolutions (7)  - Gimp-Print print resolutions

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Monday, February 5, 2007, 8:23:48 AM, you wrote:

> I have a 900MHz laptop with Fedora 6 installed. Gnome and KDE both
> slog it down. Not the the point of unusability, mind you, but I like
> things to be zippy.

> So I installed fluxbox.

> But I lost all my fancy gui-based Gnome config utils. It's okay,
> though, because I know those are all just frontends for command line
> utils. But how do I learn them?! In Gnome, if I wanted to change
> something, I'd go to the system menu and look. But without a visual
> reference, how would I know that xrandr changes the resolution?

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