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Sindi Keesan wrote:


> "Restart" in the JWM stands for "refresh". It refreshes the JWM menu
> settings.
> Very useful when we make new settings.
Thank you.  What settings do you mean?

> But when JWM itself is modified we have to "exit"  and do "startx" again.
I have done that a lot recently after editing the menu.

> I created or moved items and sub items like:
>
> Internet:
>        Connect (ppp-on)
>        Disconnect (ppp-off)

People might think they are connecting to broadband here.
Dial/hangup don't have the second meaning.

> Games
>        xFreecell
>        xDigger
>        LinCity
> Utilities
>        Clock
>        Calculator
>
> And added a final item called "Exit Basic Linux" which is presently "halt"
> but I think "shutdown -h now" would be the right thing.

What does halt do?  (I don't want to check it right now and the --help 
result is most unhelpful).

I copied shutdown from BL2 and the above tells me something like.
'You can't do that.  Go away'.
How can I change this to actually shut down?

I put as the top three things on the menu:

dial
hangup
reboot (and turn off computer when you see SONY)

With a lilo boot it will otherwise go back into linux.

> And I changed JWM menu colors  and placed a picture as a wallpaper.
> Large images use to slow down the startup proccess, so one has to be careful
> and use simpler pictures.

The user only wants to read Russian news in this case, not decorate.

> I also replaced the most of links in hotlinks.html.
I added lots of Russian news sites, my site (in case she loses my phone 
number), and a guitar midi site.  The Russian radio was mostly junk 
American stuff.

> Now that page links to both Basic Linux sites and a lot of Brazilian ones. I
> translated all the titles (captions) to Portuguese. All this stuff is quite
> easy to be done.
Do you read Portugues with links and use the Portuguese menu?  Have you 
loaded a Portuguese console font?
>

> And I created a few aliases to mount/read/umount  floppy and CDrom.
The user probably won't do any mounting.  Just read news and write email 
and play solitaire.

> Cheers,
> Teixeira