Re: Simply Mepis navigation problem

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 <vodhner@cox.net> 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.
>
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