Hey everyone,
I am learning Linux in depth. As a complete noob, I was instructed to switch to a Debian-based or Fedora to continue my learning but I like Porteus, know nothing of Slackware, but am dedicated to learning.
I found it difficult to get started since I have not found a good tutorial for newbies. For instance, in a terminal, I just cannot seem to make "shutdown", "halt" or such command work.
Also, the right-click on the mouse does not bring up sub-menu. Where can I find or how to right a driver that would support 2-finger scrolling and such things?
Porteus: Enabling right-click on Laptops [solved]
Porteus: Enabling right-click on Laptops [solved]
Last edited by igreka on 24 Jul 2016, 13:05, edited 1 time in total.
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Re: First steps with Porteus
Welcome to porteus igreka.
In terminal try instead poweroff and reboot.
Depending on you what you want to do you can have a look at my favorite links. Should be good for a newbie:
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=3318
There is also the porteus faq:
http://www.porteus.org/faq.html

In terminal try instead poweroff and reboot.
Depending on you what you want to do you can have a look at my favorite links. Should be good for a newbie:
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=81&t=3318
There is also the porteus faq:
http://www.porteus.org/faq.html
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Re: First steps with Porteus
Another bunch of links:
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=59
command line:
http://www.linuxcommand.org/index.php
http://forum.porteus.org/viewtopic.php?f=39&t=59
command line:
http://www.linuxcommand.org/index.php
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Re: First steps with Porteus
Welcome igeka,
Firstly if you are wanting to learn the roots of linux I would certainly recommend Porteus/Slackware. If you learn via this distro you learn how to do things manually and then learning any other distro becomes much easier.
Secondly when in a terminal you may need to elevate your rights in order to run some of the above commands. To do this type: su followed by the default password: toor
Once you have the red root terminal you can issue these shutdown/reboot commands. The shutdown/logout buttons in the desktop environment use a different method to shutdown.
Good luck.
Firstly if you are wanting to learn the roots of linux I would certainly recommend Porteus/Slackware. If you learn via this distro you learn how to do things manually and then learning any other distro becomes much easier.
Secondly when in a terminal you may need to elevate your rights in order to run some of the above commands. To do this type: su followed by the default password: toor
Once you have the red root terminal you can issue these shutdown/reboot commands. The shutdown/logout buttons in the desktop environment use a different method to shutdown.
Good luck.
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Re: First steps with Porteus
Thanks everyone for your replies and sorry for the delay. I am a Sunday Porteus explorer
I am
for forgetting that some critical commands like halt and shutdown require super user privileges.
My second question would be to know how to bring up right-click menu when the mouse right-click is not functioning? I am using the LX desktop.

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My second question would be to know how to bring up right-click menu when the mouse right-click is not functioning? I am using the LX desktop.
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Re: First steps with Porteus
I'm not quite sure what you mean,but in most applications you can press
Shift + F10 to achieve this ‘right-click‘ effect.
Shift + F10 to achieve this ‘right-click‘ effect.
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Re: First steps with Porteus
Hi igreka,
I'm assuming you are using a laptop. As I have experience with my Lenovo laptop, I need to change the 50-synaptics.conf to enable right-click menu by tapping the touchpad using 2 fingers at the same time.
Change your /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf to this:-
and then restart X. You can do that by
1. Pressing Ctrl-Alt-Bksp
2. Login as guest. Password is guest
I'm assuming you are using a laptop. As I have experience with my Lenovo laptop, I need to change the 50-synaptics.conf to enable right-click menu by tapping the touchpad using 2 fingers at the same time.
Change your /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf to this:-
Code: Select all
# DO NOT EDIT THIS FILE - IT WILL BE OVERWRITTEN ON UPGRADES
# Copy this file to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d/ and edit the copy
#
# Use "synclient -l" to see all available options
# Use "man synaptics" for details about what the options do
#
Section "InputClass"
Identifier "touchpad"
Driver "synaptics"
MatchDevicePath "/dev/input/event*"
MatchIsTouchpad "on"
Option "TapButton1" "1"
Option "TapButton2" "3"
EndSection
1. Pressing Ctrl-Alt-Bksp
2. Login as guest. Password is guest
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Re: First steps with Porteus
If it is a laptop then this may help. This is a script that I run to allow 'two finger right click' and also right click by tapping the top right corner of the pad.
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# Right click top right corner
synclient TapButton3=3 RTCornerButton=3
synclient FingerHigh=42
# Two finger tap right click
synclient TapButton2=3
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