A few Post Install Questions

[Samuel Clough]

Thanks.  I see where to pick the window manager now.

On 9/15/2003, "Michael Molino" <michaelmolino@ydl.net> wrote:

>> 1. Firewall.  During the install I set the security level to high and
>> opened up ports for HTTP, DHCP, and SSH.  Now, when I go into the GUI
>> security level it shows the system as high security and default with
>> none of those ports opened.  If I try to change it, it let's me save
>> changes, but when I go back into the security level GUI, it shows high
>> level and default.
>
>You know, I never noticed there was a GUI for that.  I set up my firewall by
>hand with iptables.  This is how I learned to use it:
>http://www.justlinux.com/nhf/Security/IPtables_Basics.html
>
>Now that I know there is a GUI interface for it, I tried using it.  When eve=
r
>I make a change the whole program just shuts down.  It seems to me that this
>is a bug as I can't imagine it's supposed to just shutdown anytime you make =
a
>change :)
>
>> 2. WindowManagers.  I thought it was supposed to prompt you for your
>> window manager when you logged in, but maybe that was an older version.
>
>KDE is the most versatile I think.  When you first log in, there should be a
>button at the bottom of the screen that lets you select the window manager t=
o
>use.  By default, it picks one - you aren't prompted everytime.  If you have
>KDE installed use that.  You can change everything from the control center
>(fonts, icons, double click behaviour, etc...).
>
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