where did server settings go in FC6?

Ric Moore wayward4now at gmail.com
Mon Jan 29 17:19:32 UTC 2007


On Mon, 2007-01-29 at 07:53 -0500, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> On Sun, 28 Jan 2007, Claude Jones wrote:
> 
> > On Sun January 28 2007, Matthew Saltzman wrote:
> >> Oh, right.  Now I recall later RHL or early FC releases had a "Start Here"
> >> icon on the desktop.  Opening it opened a window with the system-config-*
> >> menu entries.  There was a corresponding menu entry that would open the
> >> same window.
> >>
> >> I guess Rahul has explained where it went and what its possible future is.
> >>
> >> Apparently, I'm not the only one who misunderstood what you were looking
> >> for, though.
> >
> > Actually, Matthew, you're still not getting the right item. I have it right
> > here on my desktop, recommended to me by Rahul many months ago. It's a single
> > click menu-item, "System Control Center" it's called in the version I've got.
> > It does just what Ric has been describing - it doesn't open a window with
> > menu entries. It opens a GUI with icons and tabs; each tab window has a
> > subset of buttons with icons and text for each of the system-config utilities
> > you have installed. I thought it was broken on this box but it turns out it's
> > not - I have it open here as I'm typing. The seven tabs are
> > labelled 'Software' 'Hardware' 'System' 'Network' 'Server' 'Securities and
> > Users' and 'Misc' - there are a total of 31 buttons on the various tab pages
> > corresponding to the system-config and some other utilities installed on my
> > system - clicking on a button opens a separate GUI corresponding to the
> > function you selected.
> 
> Actually, I have the right item, but unclear description.  Should have 
> written "...opeened a window with icons representing the menu entries...". 
> I didn't remember the tabs, but then, they say the memory is the second 
> thing to go...
Join the club! I'm not only the Founder of "First thing to go", I am a
client. :) RIc

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