Chapter 11. Mandrake specific graphic user tools

Table of Contents
11.1. Xdrakres: Change the resolution of your display
11.2. XFDrake: Modify your hardware settings for the display
11.3. DrakBoot: change your boot-up settings
11.3.1. Formatting a floppy disk: drakfloppy
11.3.2. Create a boot disk
11.3.3. Configure LILO/GRUB
11.4. DrakFont: manage the fonts available on your system
11.5. draksec: Setting your security level
11.6. MouseDrake: Change your mouse
11.7. KeyboardDrake: change your keyboard layout
11.8. Userdrake: Manage users on your system
11.8.1. The interface
11.8.2. Let's add a new user
11.8.3. Other features
11.9. DrakXServices: configure startup services
11.10. menudrake: customize your menus
11.10.1. Add a new menu entry
11.10.2. Advanced features
11.11. DiskDrake: manage your partitions
11.11.1. The interface
11.11.2. In practice: resize an old partition and create a new one
11.11.3. A note about the expert mode: save the partition table
11.12. DrakGW: configure your machine as a gateway
11.13. PrinterDrake: configure a printer

This chapter describes the tools specific to the Linux-Mandrake distribution that greatly simplifies the use of the system, notably avoiding the use of the evil command line. :-)

Not all tools are described in this chapter, some of them are documented in specific chapters: "HardDrake: Configure your hardware", Updating installed packages, General packages management.

Figure 11-1. The DrakConf icon

The following image shows you the window that pops-up when you click on the DrakConf icon on the desktop (figure 11-1).

Figure 11-2. The DrakConf main window

Then in order to help you identifying the tools, here is a table, following the same geometry as the main DrakConf window with each associated tool and references to the corresponding manual sections.

Table 11-1. A fast review of Mandrake graphical tools

XFDrake: Modify your hardware settings for the displayXdrakres: Change the resolution of your displayUserdrake: Manage users on your systemDrakBoot: change your boot-up settings
DrakFont: manage the fonts available on your systemDrakGW: configure your machine as a gateway"Configuring Internet connections with DrakNet"draksec: Setting your security level
DrakXServices: configure startup services"HardDrake: Configure your hardware"KeyboardDrake: change your keyboard layoutUpdating installed packages
MouseDrake: Change your mousePrinterDrake: configure a printerGeneral packages management 

11.1. Xdrakres: Change the resolution of your display

This little tool allows you to change the video resolution of your screen, if the one you configured at install time does not fit your needs. The first window (figure 11-3) asks you to choose between the various video modes (resolutions) and depth (number of colors) available on your system. Simply choose the one you wish and click the OK button.

Figure 11-3. Choosing a new video resolution

Then a new dialog will ask you whether you wish to test the new choices or not(figure 11-4). It is highly recommended to do so, because if it doesn't work it will be harder later to recover a working graphical environment.

Figure 11-4. Test the new video mode?

At the end of the reconfiguration, a dialog may warn you that you need to restart Kwm to activate the changes. If you wish so, click on the OK, otherwise click on Cancel, the changes will then be active after you quit and reenter KDE.

 

 

 

 


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