Configuring my Debian GNU/Linux
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Configuring my Debian GNU/Linux

Sven Krahn

Release 2005-07-29

Table of Contents

1. Disclaimer
1.1. Purpose of this document
1.2. Disclaimer
1.3. Further documents
2. Installation of the base system
2.1. Investigating the hardware
2.2. Partitions
2.3. Installing Linux from another system
2.4. Installing Linux with debootstrap
2.5. Configuring the bootloader (GRUB)
2.6. Lessons learned
2.7. Further ressources
3. Personal settings
3.1. .bashrc and .profile for root
3.2. Post-installation
3.3. Aliases
3.4. Xmodmap
3.5. Autologin
3.6. Halt, reboot, and poweroff
3.7. Hard drive tuning
3.8. Laptop startx
3.9. Locales
3.10. USB memory stick
3.11. udev, hal, and hotplugging
3.12. Modification of standard configuration
3.13. Lessons learned
4. Configuring XFree86 and KDE
4.1. Installation
4.2. Display resolution
4.3. Truetype fonts
4.4. KDE font shadowing
4.5. KDE theme and style
4.6. Tuning the desktop
4.7. Mouse speed
4.8. Lessons learned
4.9. Further ressources
5. Sound
5.1. ALSA configuration
5.2. OSS configuration
6. Printing with CUPS
7. Sensors
8. DVD and DVD ripping
9. Other applications
9.1. Citrix ICA client
9.2. Cygwin
9.3. GIMP
9.4. Mozilla Firefox
9.5. Mozilla Thunderbird
9.6. Netenv
9.7. Java
9.8. OpenOffice
9.9. Skype
9.10. XMLmind XML editor
10. More useful things
10.1. apt-get gpg-key issues
10.2. Remote access with X11 tunneling
10.3. Partition images
10.4. Reinstallation of all installed packages
10.5. Tidying up the directories
10.6. Concatenating PDF and PS files
10.7. Xsession warning
10.8. Mount a ramdisk
10.9. Building a customized kernel
10.10. MP3 tagging
10.11. Ext2 driver for Windows
11. Changelog
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