[brlug-general] Learning the command line

[Tim Fournet]

On a Fedora box also, just about all the configuration commands start 
with 'system-config-' so on a bash prompt you could type: 
system-config<tab><tab> and it will show you what commands you could 
auto-complete.

On another note, I hear that XFCE is a really good middle-weight desktop 
environment. Not as heavy as GNOME and KDE, but a lot more features than 
something like fluxbox. You might want to give that a try. It's 
available via the 'yum' interface for installing.

-Tim

Joe Fruchey 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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