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How to make your Linux use more like Windows

Many Linux beginners have just come from Windows “immigrants”. They are new and strange to the Linux environment and operation. How can we let beginners quickly find the feeling and enter the Linux hall as soon as possible? Of course, we start with the operating environment and usage habits. The familiar environment and the habitual operation can make beginners get started quickly. The author takes the Red Flag Linux environment as an example to DIY a familiar environment, making Linux more like Windows. There

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Linux desktop themes, and Windows XP kde_xp most resemble, following the author to Red Flag Linux 4.1 installation Kde_xp style, for example, describes how Install the desktop theme on Red Flag Linux.

First, go to http://zhaoLinux.com/kdexp
to download the kde_xp_full-0.9.tar.gz file to the /opt directory, right click on the file and select "Extract". Or enter the following command in the terminal:

#tar zxvf kde_xp_full-0.9.tar.gz

After decompression, enter the kde_xp_full-0.9 directory, there are three subdirectories kde_xpStyle, kde_xpTheme,

icons , corresponding to style, theme, icon. Enter the following command in the terminal:

#cd kde_xpTheme
#chmod 777 theme-install-kde.sh
#./theme-install-kde.sh

Install the Ked_xp desktop theme, and the rest of the cucurbits, enter the following command:

#cd /opt/kde_xp_full-0.9/kde_xpStyle
#chmod 777 style-install.sh
# ./style-install.sh
#cd /opt/kde_xp_full-0.9/icons
#chmod 777 icons-install-kde.sh
#./icons-install-kde.sh
< BR> If everything is ok, kde_xp Theme for KDE installed will be displayed in the terminal. Next, start to configure the desktop theme, click "Start → Settings → Control Panel → Look and Feel Configuration", which has the functions of "icon", "window decoration" and "style".

After that, double-click "Window Decoration", select "IceWM" in the window decoration, select kde_xp in the decoration options, and see if the window has become Windows XP style. Next, double-click on “Style” and select “kde_xp” in the drop-down list of “Style → Part Style”.

Finally, double-click on the "icon", you can see that there is a "KDE-XP" in the "subject", select this option and click OK. In this way, most of the icons on the desktop become Windows XP style. The remaining few icons that have not changed can be modified by right-clicking the icon, selecting "Properties", and clicking under "General". The big icon, you can choose the icon you like. (The "My Computer" icon needs to be modified in the root directory.) At this point, Windows XP's default desktop Bliss is also installed under /root/.kde/share/wallpapers/. After some setup, the desktop looks It should be very similar to Windows XP.

use Windows shortcut keys program

I just started using Red Flag Linux, found a charm in Windows shortcuts, but failed under Linux, even the "Show Desktop" this The most commonly used shortcuts are "strike". The original Linux system has many sets of shortcuts, but the default is not Windows.

know the reason after, it is quite simple to solve. Click "Start" - "Settings" - "Control Panel", then double-click "Shortcuts", select "Windows Solution" in the "Current Plan" drop-down menu (according to your own keyboard, optional with Win and without Win key two ways), press OK to exit and the "strike" shortcut button is back.

"My Documents" grand unified

under normal circumstances, the author of Windows + Red Flag Linux computer is dual system. Out of habit, often put some commonly used files in "My Documents", but the "My Documents" directory under Red Flag Linux and Windows is not uniform, and Windows can not directly access the Linux partition, which brings some operations. inconvenient.

You can share the same "My Documents" perfectly by the following methods. First, drag the "My Documents" icon under Windows to /root/Desktop and release the left button. In the menu that appears, select "Link to current location (L)" and rename the document to "mydocument". " (without quotes; if the system prompts that the folder already exists, please rename mydocument in the Desktop directory first). In this way, you can implement the "My Documents" in the desktop and the "My Computer" left menu to point to the same folder. Ark support for RAR

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Red Flag Linux has a graphical Linux, the best use of compression and decompression software Ark, but in today across such a RAR archive online world of the document, not the default Ark It is really regrettable to support the RAR format.

But it doesn't matter, you can go to http://www.rarsoft.com/download.htm
to download the latest version of RAR for Linux, unzip the downloaded compression package and enter the terminal. Enter the "make" command to complete the installation. In this way, RAR for Linux is automatically integrated in Ark, and then double-clicking the RAR archive will directly call Ark for processing, which is very convenient.

Linux virtual one-stop

often heard friends complain that is not so easy as the Windows graphical virtual drives and virtual floppy tool, a virtual hardware but also under Linux Entering a long list of command characters is really troublesome. In fact, this problem can be easily done with "virtual one-stop". "Virtual One-stop" is a comprehensive virtual tool software developed by an open source enthusiast that integrates virtual optical drive, virtual floppy drive and virtual drive disk.

below, to introduce the "virtual one-stop" to install and use. First, go to

http://www.Linuxeden.com/download/softdetail.PHP?softid=1151
Download VirtualDra

gon-1.0-1.i386. Rpm, after downloading, double-click the RPM package to complete the installation. Then open the main software interface by clicking "Start → Programs → Virtual Virtual One-stop". The main interface has three tabs: “virtual optical drive”, “virtual floppy drive” and “virtual drive disk”. The interface is shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2 Running a virtual one-stop
Take a virtual optical drive as an example. First select the "Virtual CD-ROM" tab on the main interface, click "Open" to set the location of the ISO image file on your computer, press "Open" to confirm. When using the virtual CD-ROM drive, click "mount" in the action box, the system will automatically pop up the contents of the virtual post-image.
At this time, open "My Computer", you will find that there is a "virtual optical drive" on the computer, and then you can operate like a normal optical drive. If you look closely, you will find a vcd folder in the /mnt/directory, which is the real directory of the virtual drive. When not in use, click "Uninstall" on the main interface of the software.

virtual floppy drive virtual drive with similar methods of operation, it will also appear "Virtual Floppy" item in the "My Computer" in the virtual completion of its true path is /mnt /vfb. The "virtual floppy drive" item also has the function of writing a floppy disk from a floppy disk image/making an image file from a floppy disk as shown in FIG.

Figure 3 Virtual floppy drive operation
The specific operation is as follows: first insert an empty floppy disk into the floppy drive and click "Open" to set the location of the IMG image file on your computer, press " Open "confirm", then click "Write floppy disk" in the action box to write the floppy disk from the floppy disk image. Similarly, insert a floppy disk drive with the contents into the floppy disk drive and create an image file from the floppy disk (please enter save Enter the save path under the path) box (default is /root/demo.img), and then click Make to complete the image file from the floppy disk.

last feature a virtual one-stop "virtual disk drive." This feature is the same as Vfloopy under Windows. The difference is that the former is a Windows-based OS Loader, and there is a limit on the size of the image (1.44M/2.88M), and the program is based on Linux GRUB, can use any size image file, or even compressed into .gz Mirror.

The method of use is to click “Open” to set the location of the IMG image file on your computer, and press “Open” to confirm. Then enter the title in the space below "Please enter the startup item title (will be displayed in the GRUB menu)" (default is "boot from virtual floppy") and click "Add", then a prompt box will pop up, prompting to restart Effective, successful operation is shown in Figure 4.

Figure 4 Successfully create a virtual disk

After restarting, there will be a “boot from virtual floppy” option at the bottom of the GRUB menu, select and press Enter. After that, you will enter the virtual boot disk directly. Today, the floppy drive gradually fades out of the standard installation, "virtual drive disk" often plays unexpected functions, I recommend everyone to use.

in practice, they also found some shortcomings. For example, you must log in to the system as root to use the software. The current software can only simulate ISO and IMG files. But in general, "virtual one-stop" is simple to operate, easy to use, and reflects the human side of Linux. It is very suitable for beginners and too lazy to input a long list of command characters for Linux users.