There is a 'konsole' terminal located on the far right taskbar just left of the 'time'. This may work for you. Hope this helps. --- Victor Odhner wrote: > I'm trying to break back into the Linux world > after shuffling my hard disks all around, but > I'm doing it slowly and trying a wide range of > distros. For starters, I'm playing with live CDs. > > I brought up Simply Mepis today and tried to do > an FTP transfer, but could not find a command > shell window except by breaking out to the > Console (Ctrl-Alt-F1), and could not find an > Xterm except "as root". > > I know they are partly trying to make Windows > users feel comfortable, but they did too good > a job of disguising Linux as Free Windows. > This is the first Linux distro I've ever > seen that didn't have an Xterm launcher on the > taskbar. > > I thought the overall interface was nice, but > how do you go about lifting the hood on this > thing? > > Also, when I couldn't find a command line, I > tried bringing up Gftp and was unable to find a > "connect" button ... never got online with it. > I tried "transfer" but it said no transfers were > requested. It would not bring up my Cox "personal > web" directory, never tried to make an FTP > connection at all. I'm used to FileZilla on > Windows for example. It did OK browsing the > local filesystems. > > Another Mepis comment: I find their designation > of filesystems to be very confusing, because they > seem to be calling their ramdisk /dev/hda1. > Took me a minute to find /mnt/hda1. (It had no > problem browsing my NTFS volume.) > > Thanks, > > Vic > > P.S. Incidentally, I was unable to get Cox to > hold an FTP connection last night ... turned out > to be a Cox problem. I let Mepis sit overnight > and Cox was ready to do a transfer this morning. > I've never had this problem with Cox before. > > > --------------------------------------------------- > PLUG-discuss mailing list - > PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us > To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail > settings: > http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss > ===== Cyclists should expect and demand safe accommodation on our public roads, just as does every other user. Nothing more is expected. Nothing less is acceptable! Long live Knoppix!! __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? The all-new My Yahoo! - Get yours free! http://my.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------- PLUG-discuss mailing list - PLUG-discuss@lists.plug.phoenix.az.us To subscribe, unsubscribe, or to change you mail settings: http://lists.PLUG.phoenix.az.us/mailman/listinfo/plug-discuss