by the time they finished! - not to mention seriously sore fingers and a
     sleep debt the size of the US national one. -- Ben
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GUIs don't fill up the whole screen

   Kapil Hari Paranjape ([48]The LG Answer Gang)
   Question by JKC (anonymous)

   [49]KDE and [50]GNOME on Linux (Topologilinux3.1.0)doesn't take up the whole
   display of my Toshiba 2400 laptop. Linux in text mode does take up the whole
   screen. How do I get the GUIs to do the same? With thanks, JKC. 

   [Please don't give deatils of my email address or full name but otherwise
   I'm very happy for this rather lame question to be posted. Thanks. JKC] 

     As a gentle reminder, yes gentle readers, if you want to be anonymous
     either as someone asking a question or offering good answers, we're fine
     by that - just let us know! -- Heather

     [Kapil] Have a look at: [51]http://www.thorstenhaas.de/toshiba2410

     While this is for Toshiba 2410, it should also work for 2400.

   Thank you Kapil. 

     [Kapil] You're welcome. However, ...

     Please send your replies to the list rather than the person who responded
     to your question so that other people with similar questions can benefit
     from your experience.

   I've had a look at the site and it has some good ideas. 

     [Kapil] Thorsten Hass has created this very useful site for Toshiba Laptop
     (Satellite) info for Linux --- perhaps this should be in LG Tips.

     Ok, so we took a while getting it into the mix, but done! -- Heather

   I  did,  however,  find  that  the  XF86Config-vesa worked (renamed to
   XF86Config). Seems the Toshiba 2400 likes this Vesa configuration. This
   config doesn't seem to have any other unwanted side effects; I copied it
   from the default and there doesn't seem to be any localisation issues -
   we'll see. 

     [Kapil] It is nice that "vesa" does what you want. However, note that the
     "vesa"  configuration  is not "accelerated" which means that window
     movement/mapping and animations will seem sluggish. Perhaps you could try
     one of the other XF86config files at the site and tell us (on this list)
     what happened.

     The problem may also be with the "nv" driver and you could try out the
     drivers from nVidia as explained at the site.

     In any case, now that XFree86 supports generic "vesa" it is certainly much
     easier to get a basic working GUI under Linux than it used to be---at
     least for newer machines.

     Regards.
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Equivalents

   Valery V. Kachurov ([52]xoid26 from linux-online.ru)

     This refers back to the [53]article idea in issue 93's mailbag. -- Heather

   The section should specifically address the typical daily activities of the
   Windows user and how to configure Linux to operate like Windows. 

   I have a little and uncompleted table (but this is the most completed list
   of that kind in Internet...), with nearly the same purpose :) . First column
   - the activity, second column - Windows way, third column - Linux way :D.

   URL:    [54]http://linuxshop.ru/linuxbegin/win-lin-soft-en/table.shtml
   Descripton: The table of equivalents / replacements / analogs of Windows
   software in Linux.

   P.S. What do you think about this project? Can anyone help to convert this
   page from HTML to MySQL (to put all information from table to DB)? Thanks :)
   .
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create new lilo boot loader - on 2nd drive

   Hans van Buitenen ([55]jvbuiten from wanadoo.nl)

     This offers help to Geraldine Koh from [56]LG 93, help wanted #8 --
     Heather

     Hi, you don't really describe how you boot from the second disk. Do you
     switch this in the bios?

     I will just give you two hints.

     In my case I use to power down and use the removable drive switch to
     disable the disk in the primary bay. Then the secondary starts up. I can
     imagine that this dous not work in all systems.

     If you use lilo on the first disk to startup lilo in the mbr of the second