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NOTE: For more hardware information and how to set up particular hardwares/drivers/etc., Please refer to the Hardware section of the wiki. Alternatively, list of all the HOWTO can be viewed by Categories.

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[edit] Installing/Setting Up Zenwalk

[edit] Installation

• How to Fresh Install ZenWalk
• Install ZenWalk from USB flash drive
• Prepare USB/sd-card flash drive for zenwalk install
• Hard disk install (no CD-ROM) with GRUB or LILO
• Install a minimal GUI on top of Zenwalk Core
• Installation troubleshootings (From Zenwalk CD)
• How to Partition your HD with gparted when you have only one HD and one Partition
• How to install Zenwalk to a USB flash drive

[edit] Upgrading

• How to upgrade Zenwalk 6.0 to 6.2
• How to upgrade Zenwalk 5.2 to 6.0
• How to upgrade Zenwalk 5.0 to 5.2
• How to upgrade xorg from 7.2 to 7.3 (Zenwalk 4.8 to 5.0)

[edit] Booting/Multiboot (Windows, MacOSX, ...)

• Disable the bios check (i.e. the dots that make you hang on boot)
• Configuring your system to use a fancy bootsplash
• Boot straight into Zenwalk if you don't dual boot and want to speed it up a bit
• How to boot in single user mode/run level 1
• Configuring your system to use verbose output (i.e. no bootsplash so you can see the text)

LILO

• Multiboot with LILO
• Repairing LILO

GRUB

• Multiboot with grub instead of LILO
• Installing Zenwalk when you already have another OS installed, and using GRUB
• Welcome to GRUB2--replacing Grub legacy or LILO with GRUB2

[edit] Login/out

• Adding a Window Manager to the GDM menu
• lost root password

[edit] File Systems

• Software RAID
• NTFS write with ntfs-3g
• Using TrueCypt
• Ffperms.sh - A script to find files & directories with unusual permissions
• Mount samba shares automatically
• Mount ftp, sftp, samba, webdav as non-root (no /etc/fstab)
• Enable hfsplus/GPT for Macintosh drives

[edit] Kernel & Hardware

For more hardware information and how to set up particular hardwares/drivers/etc., Please refer to the Hardware section of the wiki. Alternatively, list of all the HOWTO can be viewed by Categories.

ACPI & APM

• How to stop cpu fan working all the time
• Switch off older computer
• Suspend (standby) when laptop lid is closed

Graphics

• ATI Driver Installation
• Monitor refresh rate autodetect fail

Hardware Discovery (PCI, Disks, USB, Graphics, Sound)

• How to do hardware discovery (detection)

Kernel

• Compile a Kernel Manually
• Upgrade Kernel with netpkg

Keyboard Settings

• Enabling the Multimedia Keys on your Keyboard

Setting up Printers

• Setting up parallel port printers

Sound

• Alsa Setup

USB Devices

• USB Drives
• Setting up HAL

Bluetooth Devices

• Bluetooth adaptor setup
• Bluetooth mouse
• Bluetooth headset

[edit] Internationalisation

• Internationalisation
• Cyrillic characters
• Japanese Language Input under Zenwalk
• Multilingual_Input_with_SCIM
• How to install Zenwalk using a Greek keyboard
• How to fix the Greek flag in the keyboard applet of the XFCE panel

[edit] Networks & Services

For more hardware information and how to set up particular hardwares/drivers/etc., Please refer to the Hardware section of the wiki. Alternatively, list of all the HOWTO can be viewed by Network Device Categories.

[edit] File Sharing

• Managing Users on a Small Network using NFS and Rsync
• Nfs and Netfilter
• Setting Up Samba CIFS/SMB File Server
• Simple File and Folder Sharing

[edit] Connectivity

• Using PPPoE in general
• Using BSNL Broadband Connection
• Using USB Modem Connection / pppsetup 1.98 (slackware)
• Configuring wpa_supplicant
• Using Reliance CDMA mobile phone as modem

[edit] Other

• Connecting to a VPN Network
• Changing Your MAC Address (Wired & Wireless)
• Make your server relay emails
• Cracking Wireless Encryption with the Intel iwl3945 Driver

[edit] Software

[edit] Desktop Environments

• Beryl: Beryl on Nvidia Card
• Compiz Fusion
• Enlightenment DR17
• How to install Enlightenment DR17
• How to install fluxbox
• How to install GNOME
• KDE Installation
• Metisse

[edit] Remote Desktop

• How to install FreeNX
• How to install NoMachine NX Server
• How to use x11vnc to connect to an existing X session

[edit] Graphics

• Batch resize images

[edit] Multimedia

• Totem - solving a video display problem with the XFCE4 compositor on
• Burning with the Command Line Interface
• How to check md5sum
• Mplayer Screenshot
• Watching a DVD
• Simple script to burn audio CDs
• HTPC
  • How to install VDR

[edit] Other Applications

• Howto compile an application from source
• Crypt and decrypt with GnuPG
• Set up a Windows/Linux Compatible encrypted USB drive
• Howto create a google forum search engine for IceWeasel
• IceWeasel troubleshootings
• Terminal Problems
• Terminal Tips
• how to convert xml to pdf
• Installing Wine
• Installing Texlive
• Installing Apache, PHP, MySQL
• Installing Apache, PHP, MySQL & phpMyAdmin with Virtual Hosts
• Installing Moodle
• Synbak - the universal backup solution
• Xarchiver troubleshooting
• Data Recovery
• HOWTO Get Adobe Air and Apps to work on Zenwalk
• Dropbox

[edit] Plugins

• Installing the Firefox/Konqueror/opera flash plugin
• Gxine plugin setup

[edit] Virtualization

• Installing VMWare Workstation on Zenwalk
• Running Zenwalk as a linux guest on Virtualbox
• Setting up Virtualbox on Zenwalk

[edit] Xfce4

• How to hide the trash icon
• Thunar: Enable video thumbnails in thunar
• Thunar: Enable pdf thumbnails in thunar
• Thunar file order case insensitive
• Xfce: delete files without using the trash
• Xfce: Zenwalk Help in the Desktop menu
• Xfce: Mail Watcher Applet: Red Icon
• Xfce: Enable transparent windows and other effects
• Auto Start programs
• How to fix the Greek flag in the keyboard applet of the XFCE panel
• Multilevel Xfce Menu Categories
• Thunar custom action - Depcheck
• Thunar custom action - Makepkg
• Thunar custom action - 'Open/Run as root'
• Thunar custom action - Create/Extract Archives (.zip, .tar.gz, .tar.bz2, .7z)
• Thunar custom action - Calculate and show MD5 sum(s)
• Thunar custom action - Resize Image(s)

[edit] Zenwalk Specific Programs

• How to use netpkg
• How to use zenrmpkg
• How to stay updated
• How to use Zendo (package manager)

[edit] Package Management

[edit] For Zenwalkers

• Package Management
• Running a snapshot Zenwalk
• Installing a "Snapshot" system to test the new toolchain (Zenwalk 4.4 - 4.6)
• Downloading the complete repository through http

[edit] For Packagers

• Buildpkg: Easy package creation
• Compiling from sources
• How to create a package using cvs/svn sources
• How to create a build log
• Deb2tgz
• Scrollkeeper and Packaging
• Gconf schemas and packaging
• Building Qt3 and Qt4 applications
• Zenwalk User Repository
• How to use translate GUI interface

[edit] Misc

• How to create a google forum search engine for IceWeasel
• How to create a partition image

[edit] OS interoperability

• How to print on a linux shared printer from windows using IPP

[edit] Other Languages