Re: cannot get into gnome. do I need a screen anyway?

Joel Roth <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.redhat.blinux.general
Message-ID <20150811231503.GA31826@sprite>
On Wed, Aug 12, 2015 at 12:27:39AM +0200, Kristoffer Gustafsson wrote:
> Hi.
> How do I do if I want to look for an application then?
> For example, I've got games, firefox, and something else installed.
> Isn't there any menu for this?

Oh, like a Windows start menu?
I guess that would come from a desktop manager.

Otherwise, perhaps  you could find apps from 
the package manager

I would suggest you look for what you want,
then install it.

How you do that depends on the distribution.  If you're
looking for games on a Debian-based system, I would suggest
at the command line you type:

apt-cache search game 

This returns over 1500 results. 

apt-cache search application

returns over 9000 results.

Then 

apt-get install <packagename> 

for what interests you. 

Other package managers are yum (Suse?) and rpm (Red Hat).

Otherwise, perhaps a desktop environment will give you some
ready-to-use applications, in that case, installing Gnome or
KDE, and all that comes with them.

Hope that helps,

Joel

> I tried allt +f1, but I didn't saw anything there.
> 
> 
> 2015-08-11 21:16 GMT+02:00, Joel Roth <[email protected]>:
> > Janina Sajka wrote:
> >> It's important to know your alsa card
> >> number. Then you can do commands like:
> >>
> >> amixer -c4 controls
> >>
> >
> > You can address ALSA devices by name as well,
> > in that case you don't need to worry about the card
> > number.
> >
> > For example, you can look at the output of
> >
> > aplay -L
> >
> > and for amixer use the device names with the -D option
> > instead of card number with -c option. Longer to type,
> > but more stable for use in scripts.
> >
> > Here are some references:
> >
> > http://james.ahlstrom.name/alsa_names.html
> >
> > http://www.alsa-project.org/main/index.php/DeviceNames
> >
> > https://penguinlinguist.wordpress.com/2012/02/05/selecting-audio-output-devices-in-alsa/
> >
> > Have fun (and unambiguous audio device references)
> >
> > Joel
> >
> >
> > --
> > Joel Roth
> >
> >
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> >
> 
> 
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> Kristoffer Gustafsson
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