Slackware 13.37

Unclassified

* Boot-up process
Run level 3 is multi-user mode. To determine what processes to start, slackware runs
   /etc/rc.d/rc.M
This is where you should set up the privoxy daemon, for example.

* Ctl-Alt-Del disabling

Pressing Ctl-Alt-Del will cause a reboot. If you want to alter or disable this behaviour, edit /etc/inittab and search for shutdown.

* firefox
Doesn't work:
ln -s "/mnt/shared/Users/mcarter/Local Settings/Application Data/Mozilla/Firefox/Profiles/zl648qvt.default" ~/.mozilla/firefox/

* keyboard

http://blog.tpa.me.uk/2011/03/29/slackware-13-37-xorg-hal/

cp /{usr/share,etc}/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-keyboard-layout.conf
vi /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/90-keyboard-layout.conf
Change
   Option "XkbLayout" "us" 
to
   Option "XkbLayout" "gb" 
Come out of X-Windows by pressing Ctl-Al-Backspace
Restart X-Windows using startx. The changes should now work

* lilo

Set the active partition::
	parted
	set 3 boot on
	quit

Reinstall lilo to the active partition::
	lilo

This should now work. To recover, reboot from the slackware DVD and type::
	boot: hugesmp.s root=/dev/sda3 rdinit= ro
This is working as at 07-Feb-2010.

* lang/locale

echo "LANG=en_GB" >> /etc/profile.d/lang.sh 
Reboot is sufficient to activate the change.

You can check the available locales by typing
  locale -a

* network

You can reconfigure the network using
    netconfig

http://alien.slackbook.org/dokuwiki/doku.php?id=slackware:network


* sound
vim ~/.soundrc :
pcm.!default {
type hw
card 1
device 0
}
ctl.!default {
type hw
card 1
device 0
}

* swap
dd if=/dev/zero of=/swap-mc bs=1k count=3000000 # 3GB
mkswap -c -L swap-mc /swap-mc
swapon -a
echo "/swap-mc     swap     swap   defaults   0   0" >>/etc/fstab

To see if it's been activated:
   free -m
You can run an infinite loop to try to gobble up cache by typing
   python -m inf
Don't forget to kill it after awhile!
* webcam

mplayer tv:// -tv driver=v4l2:width=640:height=480:device=/dev/video1

Check out
  https://help.ubuntu.com/community/Webcam
which contains tips on recording videos, too.

* virtualbox

This section describes how to set up a Slackware guest system.

As root:
  useradd -u 215 -d /var/run/vboxadd -g 1 -s /bin/sh vboxadd

From sbopkg, install the following guest additions:
virtualbox-addons
#virtualbox-ose-addons
virtualbox-kernel-addons
If you don't add them, then you will have problems with X Windows, and more.

From VirtualBox, create a shared folder.
Suppose you created a shared name $sharename as vbshare and path
c:\Users\mcarter\vbshare

In Slackware, you need a mount point e.g. $mountpoint as /mnt/shared
which you can create from root using:
   mkdir /mnt/shared
You mount it by:
   mount -t vboxsf vbshare /mnt/shared

To mount at boot, add the following line to /etc/fstab:
   vbshare	/mnt/shared	vboxsf	defaults	0 	0

Add following line to /etc/rc.d/rc.local:
   mount /mnt/shared


* Miscellaneous software

ktorrent - bittorrent with Qt interface

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Author:  Mark Carter
Created: 23-Dec-2011
Updated: 24-Dec-2011