Advanced Exercises


12.

What change does the mouse pointer undergo when you move it to the edge of a window? What happens when you right-click and drag the mouse pointer when it looks like this? Repeat this experiment with the mouse pointer at the corner of a window.

13.

Try the experiment described in "Using a Window Manager Without a Desktop Manager" on page 122. What is missing from the screen? Based only on what you see, describe what a window manager does. How does a desktop manager make it easier to work with a GUI?

14.

When the characters you type do not appear on the screen, what might be wrong? How can you fix this problem?

15.

What happens when you run vim from the Run Command window without specifying that it be run in a terminal? Where does the output go?

16.

The example on page 105 shows that the man pages for write appear in sections 1 and 2 of the system manual. Explain how you can use man to determine which sections of the system manual contain a manual page with a given name.

17.

How many man pages are in the Devices subsection of the system manual? (Hint: Devices is a subsection of Special Files.)




A Practical Guide to Red Hat Linux
A Practical Guide to Red HatВ® LinuxВ®: Fedoraв„ў Core and Red Hat Enterprise Linux (3rd Edition)
ISBN: 0132280272
EAN: 2147483647
Year: 2006
Pages: 383

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