Tuesday, May 20, 2008
Mouse scroll thingy...
Well, I had to edit a file... I don't know why the option wasn't available from any tool, but I had to add a line in Xorg.conf. Now, with ubuntu, you don't get to edit system file easily. I had to find the name of the editor, open a terminal, sudo the editor and edit the file. Now, the forum are great to tell which file to edit and what line to add. but they don't tell us where the file are. Finnaly, I found the file, added the line, and what, restart X? well, I logged out and back in and the mouse was working... This wasn't hard, but it was not easy either. Now, I'll look into that grub thing. I can't boot my physical linux partition anymore. But I "unhided" a partition that the install program hid... Maybe I'll have to move a partition somewhere else...
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I'm not sure I get you...
Did you have problem locating the file on the disk or finding a text editor to edit it?
The proper command-line command to locate a file is "locate {partial-file-name}".
To edit the file (once found), I use nano a lot. It is a command line editor (à la vi) that is very easy to use (took me 5 minutes to master).
Both.
I could have used VI to edit the file, as it's the only editor I know the name. But I wanted to use a modern editor, so I had to copy the shortcut on the desktop to edit it to learn the name of the editor.
And luckily, I knew about sudo, because the insctructions on the forum didn't tell anything about that. Neither did they tell the readers about the location of the file. It's easy to find it using the graphical interface or that fancy command of yours, but a control panel interface would have been way easier.
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