[plug] Redhat 9.0

Luke Dudney dex at wn.com.au
Wed Apr 9 14:11:54 WST 2003



On 09/04/03 14:01, Ben Jensz wrote:

> My first impressions (clean install - Workstation) were one minor bug 
> in the install when setting the root password.  The box came up but I 
> couldn't click into it to type anything, clicked back and then next 
> again and it worked.  One other problem was I browsed our Samba server 
> fine from the desktop and accessed my home directory, but OpenOffice 
> locked up badly when trying to double click on an Excel file to open.  
> I kill -9'ed it and opened OpenOffice and did a file>open on the same 
> file and it opened fine.
>
> One thing I'm curious about, is there a task manager type application 
> for X?  As that would help a hell of a lot for newbies when they had a 
> program stuff up, because opening up an xterm and doing a ps and kill 
> -9 isn't something a newbie would exactly be capable of.  I didn't see 
> anything from my brief look at the standard RH desktop.
>
>
> / Ben
>
'gnome-system-monitor', which is a clone of the windows NT task manager.

Cheers
Luke




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