Tips and Tricks

Killing a misbehaving x-application:
You can kill/terminate an x-application that's frozen and refuse close. Issue the command: xkill and left click on the application you wish to terminate. Be careful not to accidentally click the desktop. If you don't want to terminate anything, right click anywhere to make the "kill cursor" go away.

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Killing the X server:
You can terminate the entire X server (the graphical environment) and get back to the command line with the key combination: Ctrl+Alt+Backspace. Be careful though, this will terminate all running x-applications and you will loose your unsaved work.

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Running Wolvix from ISO:
If you want to speed up Wolvix, but don't have enough RAM to load it all to memory, or you want to free up your CD/DVD-ROM drive, but don't want to install Wolvix to your hard drive you can run it from an ISO file.

Copy one of the Wolvix ISO files to your hard drive, preferably the root of the drive and give it a short name like cub.iso or hunter.iso. Then boot Wolvix from the CD in your CD/DVD-ROM drive with like this: wolvix from=/dev/hdxy/name_of_file.iso where 'hdxy' is your drive+partition and 'name_of_file.iso' is the name you gave the ISO file.

Example: I place a copy of Wolvix Hunter ISO on my third partition on my only hard drive and rename it to hunter.iso.
I can then Boot Wolvix with this cheatcode: wolvix from=/dev/hda3/hunter.iso. Once Wolvix is loaded you can remove the CD from your CD/DVD-ROM drive since Wolvix will be running from the ISO on the hard drive.

• You need to boot Wolvix from a CD first to get the system started, but once you issued the cheatcode the system doesn't need the CD anymore.

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Reboot/Shut Down from SLiM
It is possible to reboot and shut down the computer from SLiM. Simply type reboot or shutdown as username and type the root password when prompted.

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Adding NFS shares to /etc/fstab
If you want to automatically mount NFS shares at boot (and you are using a wired network connection with DHCP) , just adding the shares to /etc/fstab won't work. By default, Wolvix depends on WiCD to manage the network connection. At boot, WiCD isn't running yet (its GUI based and runs after login) when /etc/fstab is parsed.

You can revert to using the default Slackware method of starting the network, by editing /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1.conf and adding "yes" in the DHCP setting. You will need to uninstall WiCD or disable it at boot by making the start up script for Wicd non executable: chmod -x /etc/rc.d/rc.wicd .

The network will now be up BEFORE /etc/fstab is parsed, and the NFS shares in /etc/fstab will be automatically mounted at boot.

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