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| author | Paul Issott <paul@slitaz.org> |
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| date | Mon Jul 28 22:05:36 2008 +0000 (2008-07-28) |
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31 <h2><font color="#DF8F06">System Tools</font></h2>
33 <ul>
34 <li><a href="#clex">Clex</a> - Command line File Manager.</li>
35 <li><a href="#emelfm2">emelFM2</a> - File Manager.</li>
36 <li><a href="#htop">Htop</a> - View system processes.</li>
37 <li><a href="#mountbox">Mountbox</a> - Mount devices.</li>
38 <li><a href="#gparted">Gparted</a> - Partition a hard drive.</li>
39 <li><a href="network-config.html#netbox">Netbox</a> - Configure network.</li>
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43 <h3>Clex - Command line File Manager</h3>
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45 To navigate through your folders and directories you can use <code>cd</code> on the command line or
46 launch the 'Clex File Manager'. Using ncurses, clex is fast and easy to use and can be configured through
47 the files ~/.clexrc and ~/.clexbm (bookmarks) or via the panel (ctrl -g). To start clex from a terminal or
48 console:
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51 $ clex
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54 <a name="emelfm2"></a>
55 <h3>emelFM2 - File Manager</h3>
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57 EmelFM2 is a file manager providing many useful functions for daily tasks such as managing devices, opening
58 a terminal in the current directory, drag and drop, creating directories, key bindings or managing file
59 permissions. It contains bookmarks to allow you to browse faster, a text editor/viewer and much more.
60 EmelFM2 can be launched with some command line options - you can specify the dustbin directory or set the
61 start directory to display. For a full list of options:
62 <code>$ emelfm2 --help</code>.
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65 The context menu (right click on file/directory) makes it easy to unpack <code>.taz .gz</code> archives,
66 compress and create archives or compare files. You can also create symbolic links via 'Create a link...'.
67 Once learned, emelFM2 will allow you to work quickly and effectively.
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70 <a name="htop"></a>
71 <h3>Htop - View system processes</h3>
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73 Htop is a system process viewer that displays cpu load, memory state (RAM) and swap used. It can also
74 display the number of tasks, uptime and PIDs of active processes. Htop can be used with the keyboard in
75 console mode, the mouse with a X terminal (xterm) and provides configuration options (F2). Htop can also
76 kill processes and you can select items with the up/down arrows or a mouse click. Note htop also functions
77 via SSH and can be used to monitor a remote server:
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79 <pre>
80 $ htop
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83 <a name="mountbox"></a>
84 <h3>Mountbox - Mount devices</h3>
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86 Mountbox is a small GTK+ application to quickly mount media
87 such as a USB drive, hard drive or cdrom. Mountbox can be launched from a terminal or via the Tools menu
88 (System Tools). Simply specify the peripheral (Device) and the mount point, ie the directory where you want
89 to access the media in question. Typically a CD is mounted on /media/cdrom, a USB key on /media/flash and
90 disk drives on the local machine on /mnt. Note the <a href="system-admin.html#devices">handbook</a> also
91 contains some information.
92 </p>
94 <a name="gparted"></a>
95 <h3>Gparted - Partition a hard drive</h3>
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97 Gparted is a graphical application making it possible to manage the partitions of a local hard drive or USB media.
98 It allows you to reformat, resize or check a partition on a hard drive and is the tool of choice if you need
99 to prepare a partition to install SliTaz. Gparted supports proper GNU/Linux filesystems (ext2 and ext3)
100 via mkfs and Parted automatically handles dependancies.
101 </p>
103 <h4>Support FAT and NTFS filesystems</h4>
104 <p>
105 To have the support of FAT16 or Windows FAT32 filesystems, you must install the package
106 <code>dosfstools</code>. To support NTFS partitions you need to install: <code>fuse</code>,
107 <code>ntfs-3g</code> and <code>ntfprogs</code>.
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