Raul Acevedo wrote: > Mythical Proportions wrote: > > > 2 GNOME questions for you... > > 1) I want to 're-organize' some of the items in the GNOME menu. In M$ > > you can click and drag items around the start menu, but it doesn't > > appear to work like that in GNOME. What conf file controls the gnome > > menu (both per user and globally)? > > YES!!! How do you do this? The menu editor from GNOME 1.4 is gone... This question has come up over and over in the forum - the best answer I have seen is that the menu configuration is stored in: /etc/X11/desktop-menus/application.menu It is in XML and the format is not documented but it can be figured out with a bit of study. Would be nice to have the menu editor back though. > > > 1 just general query for good measure: > > 3) I want to start tarring my home folders for backup. I know you can > > tell tar to exclude certain files/folders, but I can't seem to get the > > syntax write based on the man and --help stuff. I want to exclude one > > folder within /home/user1 that has music files. > > So... #: tar -cvz archive.tar /home/user1 > > doesn't cut it. Anyone have any advice? > > tar -cvz archive.tar --exclude=/home/user1/DirToExclude2 > --exclude=/home/user1/DirToExclude2 /home/user1 > > Raul > Lou -- Psyche-list mailing list Psyche-list@redhat.com https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/psyche-list
