Re: General desktop questions

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On Mon, Aug 30, 2010 at 4:01 PM, Alex <mysqlstudent@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Thanks for your input. I'm very surprised my questions were such that
> you believed pointing me to the CATB doc was necessary; I'm not new at
> this.

I'm a greybeard, too, but it doesn't hurt to consider many tactics to
get the answers you want. And if your question and its answer(s)
contribute back to the community pool of knowledge, all the better. No
offense was meant.

Well, some questions were related to "I'm trying to learn this darned
GNOME desktop thing." and some were Thunderbird and some are probably
related to the GNOME VFS thing I know little about and some are
related to the Nautilus UI. All related, but perhaps more or less so.
I guess I missed the common thread.

> Perhaps "General Desktop Questions" is a bit too broad, but creating
> five different posts for basic questions about the desktop that I
> wasn't sure were my usability difficulties or otherwise.

It's a fair argument, I agree. I was just suggesting how you might get
broader response. I could be wrong. It wouldn't be my first time ;)

> For example, in Windows Firefox I can type a Google search term in the location bar, but not in FC13. Is this configurable?

I'll betcha it is. What have you tried? Where have you looked?

I typed "configure Firefox address bar for Google search" into my
address bar, as apparently I've already done the thing you're looking
for. The first link,
http://www.techzilo.com/search-google-address-bar-firefox-google-chrome/,
which brought me an alternate suggestion to what suvaya ali suggests.

My about:config setting for keyword.URL is set to:

http://www.google.com/search?ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&sourceid=navclient&gfns=1&q=

and that works for me.

> I've got a basic font question, but will open a new thread for that :-)

Great idea! Good luck with that!

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