Mate, gnome 2 fork

Started by Perburus this gnome2 fork: https://bbs.archlinux.org/viewtopic.php?pid=950350#p950350
Very laudable enterprise.

How to edit xinitrc:
http://matsusoft.com.ar/redmine/projects/mate/wiki/Session_Mate

exec ck-launch-session mate-session

Setting time in Arch

pacman -Qo /usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Amsterdam
/usr/share/zoneinfo/Europe/Amsterdam is owned by tzdata 2011g-1

And set date and time in terminal:
date 07081306
Fri Jul 8 13:06:00 CEST 2011

Start time service:# ntpd -s -d
Hardware clock is set in etc/rc.conf

HARDWARECLOCK="UTC" TIMEZONE="Europe/Amsterdam"

Some basic concepts

Kernel: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linux_kernel
User space: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/User_space
Input/Output (I/O): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Input/output
Udev: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Udev
Devicekit: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DeviceKit

more to follow

pstree

pstree - Shows the process tree for the current user.

source:http://kbhaskar.in/10-linux-commands-you-probably-not-know-about/

“pstree” can be used for system administration tasks. Like, if you wish to see which process was started by what program, then this command will be useful.

Syntax: pstree [OPTIONS] [PID] [USER]

Example:

2 3 4

$ pstree # Shows all running processes for the current user $ pstree 2747 # Shows the process tree for the pid specified

Another reason for the init: Id "x" respawning too fast-error

A user in the AB forum noted this solution for this problem:chmod /tmp to 1777 and reinstall xkbcomp.
So no write permissions to the /tmp and no setup file for his keyboard, probably a non-US layout. But how can it be that you have no write permissions to your /tmp file?

Autologin in Aptosid

What I really find difficult to get used to in Aptosid that you can't find easily text files in which you can change things easily: in arch you change the # for two lines *delete one and add one) in etc/inittab and you are done.
In Aptosid you have to use gdemsetup as root; go to login window preferences, tab security and check the box automatic login and choose the user.

Change computer name in Arch

Change computer name: got as root to etc/rc.conf
Edit it with your fav text editor:
HOSTNAME="archbang" to
HOSTNAME="preferred_name"

If you have configured your hosts file (also in /etc) and it is different from the default:
127.0.0.1 localhost.localdomain localhost

you might to have to adapt that to the new settings.

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