n00b slack questions

[Jammin1984]

Hello.

I have just got slack 10 installed using XFCE4. I like this GUI and am going to try sticking with it.

I have a few questions:

1)I dont like the terminal. Is it possible to change the background to black and give different colours for dir`s etc? Also, maybe this is showing my n00bness but when in the terminal it gives:

bash-2.05b# (at root).

Im used to it giving me like Saturn#home/jammin:

Can i change this? is this because this is console and not terminal (yeah, im a n00b)

2)How can i change my keyboard mapping in XFCE to uk mapping?

3)I installed opera using install.sh. If at terminal i enter "opera" it doesnot recgonise the command, but if i go to the directory i decompresed opera to and type "opera" it loads??

4)How can i get slack to boot straight into XFCE, and then ask me to log in?? Or am i too used to Gnome?

5)I have to keep hitting the arrow or delete buttons, i cant hold em down. Can i change this??

I know this is asking a lot. Sorry all.

Thanks much

[Jammin1984]

With a bit of reading (maybe i should have done this first.. ) I have changed the background and foreground colours of my terminal using -bg -fg.

I have opera up and running using installpkg and am going to read more about the choices of pacakge managers.

I still cant get UK key mapping (i could during installation). When I do xorgconfig i get these options:

1. US English
2. US English w/ ISO 9995-3
3. US English w/ Deadkeys

Will option 2 give me a UK key map? Im still clueless about somehow setting something so that i can hold keys for them to repeat.

I dont mind not booting straight into XFCE, infact i like it but i can get my system to shutdown completly. When i quit xfce i get to the bash terminal but it doesnot recognise reboot or shutdown now meaning i have to maunally power off, which worries me slightly. What can i do about this??

Thanks again

[LinuxBox420]

bash-2.05b# (at root).

Create a ~/.bashrc script, make it executable and add the lines...

PS1="\u\[@\H\w\[#"

it's supposed to be the letter "u" not \you don't know why it's doing that?

[Jammin1984]

Thanks.

Im confused tho, what will this do? And instead of "you" should i be using my name?

Thanks

[LinuxBox420]

And instead of "you" should i be using my name?

No, it should be the lower case letter yo"U" i don't know why its spelling the word "you" out when I summited the letter "U". Anyway, it'll give you an output like this everytime you launch a terminel...

box@LinuxBox420~$

minus the "box" and "LinuxBox420" of course.

Must be an auto spelling thing or something? I don't know?