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sindi keesan wrote:
>
> Why don't the aliases in /etc/profile work in X?  

They work for me.

> How would I write a 1-letter script for Ctrl-Alt-Del?  

reboot

> I will look for the little box.  I dialed in BL2 X and 
> then exited X to use ssh, and went back into X but don't 
> see such a box.

You need to be running icewm.

> My friend knows how to watch the pink and green moving 'charts' 
> in the lower right to know that a website is downloading.  
> Maybe something happens there during dialing too.  

Not during dialing.  But the 'charts' box appears when the
connection is made (and disappears when the connection is
terminated).

> Why do I get messages during dial in BL2 but not BL3 X, and 
> in console BL3 I also get them, and can I change BL3 to see 
> them in X?

The messages are in tty1 (assuming you ran startx from tty1).
You can see them if you do CTRL-ALT-F1

> If I make a script 'o' to do this, it has to be called as '. o' 
> (to avoid opening another shell, I am told).  

I don't understand why this is a problem.  Can't you call
opera (inside o) using . ?

> How do I put '. o' into .xinitrc?

I don't think that will be necessary (assuming your o script
is right).

> If Opera can be made to work with BL3.40-glibc, it would be 
> ideal for setting up people who only want computers for browsing.  
>  - there was a $20 486 which would have been ideal (with external 
> modem and power supply) with either swap file or PCMCIA memory added.

Sorry, that 486 is probably too slow for Opera.  I would't try 
Opera with anything less than a DX4-100 (and even then only if 
it had 32mb RAM).  With a 486 DX-66, I'd use links2.  With a 
486 SX-25, links (non-graphical).  With a Pentium 133, Opera.  
With a Pentium II, Firefox.

Cheers,
Steven

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