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the Black Sun and said:
Open an xterm or konsole, type "ps auxw" or "pstree" or "top". Or use K
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Horacio Maple can do this. In fact I have done it with Maple. IIRC you have to usepackage{maple2e} and then you have something...
? The KDE taskbar provides roughly equivalent functionality to the Windows "system tray" in its default configuration. KDE System Guard is a GUI on top on the information provided by ps (an old-school Unix utility) or top (which displays roughly the same info, updated every ~2 seconds). KDE System Guard is roughly equivalent to the Windows Task Mangler, but IMHO, the command-line tools are preferable in many situations.
What do you mean by "the apps themselves"? Many of the processes first process started) doesn't, f'rexample. GUI applications like Firefox can have multiple processes as well.
Updating software is usually done through distro-specific tools (YaST in your case.) Configuring software is done through text config files in There are a *lot* of programs out there, so if you're having problems with one's configuration, ask, and tell us its name.
"Yer in it." If you're looking for an explanation of Unix concepts, Google "rute user tutorial". If you have specific questions like "how do I get a Foobar 9000 to work with Linux?" or "How do I do NNN with Linux?", ask them here or in another part of the comp.os.linux.* newsfroup hierarchy, depending on what exactly a Foobar 9000 does or the value of NNN.
If you post to the wrong group, someone will probably tell you, "This question is better suited for comp.os.linux.NNN," and set the Bavarian Illuminati Guinea Pig Conspiracy to lead the mbuttes astray. Or not. HTH,
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