SliTaz Doc - en:handbook

accessibility

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 14 Aug 2012 20:28:16 +0000

Accessibility About SliTaz aims to provide some Assistive Technology (AT) tools. Screen magnifier SliTaz supplies a screen magnifier whose edges can be resized and that can magnify up to 16x. It also provides graphical tools that enable a crosshair, pixel positions and RGB values. It can be found in the Menu

chroot

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 03 May 2011 20:47:17 +0000

Chroot environment This document describes the necessary steps to create a chrooted environment, in order to change the root of the system so that you can work. This makes it possible to compile, test and develop SliTaz without any risk to the host system you're working on. The host system can be SliTaz installed to a hard drive or any other GNU/Linux system such as Debian, Fedora, PCLinuxOS and so on. You can also create a chrooted environment in LiveCD mode associated with USB media. The only…

commands

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 01 Oct 2016 05:30:37 +0000

Command Line Reference Introduction to the commands This document is intended as a quick reference for using commands on SliTaz via a Linux terminal or a graphical terminal (xterm). There are many GNU/Linux commands for file handling, system maintenance or network management. You can also browse the web, chat on

desktop

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 23 Sep 2020 16:29:44 +0000

Desktop Introduction The default SliTaz desktop is brought to you using different components of the LXDE project. Openbox, PCmanFM and LXPanel combine to implement a Desktop providing simplicity and functionality. Openbox Openbox is a fast, lightweight, simple, themeable window manager, it is the window manager by default on SliTaz. A window manager is an application that runs on top of the X server to control the appearance of windows. It can then place, cut and re-size windows at will.

development

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 14:24:43 +0000

Development About Development SliTaz provides development tools for web design, editing scripts and source code. On the website, the Development page will give you general information about the developers and opportunities for involvement. SHell scripts

genlivecd

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 05 Jan 2017 16:32:45 +0000

Generating a Customised LiveCD or LiveUSB Tazlito can create your own, personalised version of SliTaz in very little time. It allows you to choose precisely the software packages that you want and make a flavor file (.flavor) with it. You can choose to make your own file starting from a general slitaz flavor (such as base, justx or core), or make it based on an already customised flavor supplied by the SliTaz community.

graphics

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 24 Oct 2016 12:26:14 +0000

Graphics Gcolor2 - Select and manage colors Gcolor2 is a tool to select and retain palette colors. It can be useful for the creation of SliTaz themes, for example. It can be found in the Graphics category or run from the command line: $ gcolor2 &

hacklivecd

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 17 Nov 2014 09:32:17 +0000

Hacking SliTaz LiveCD Introduction Hacking SliTaz LiveCD or how to have fun with the LiveCD ISO image. Note that you can also create a custom flavor with Tazlito. Creating your own bootable ISO image is easily achievable and the steps are carefully described here. The manipulation of a personal ISO image can add new files or modify existing ones found on the SliTaz Live CD. The SliTaz ISO image is less than 30

installation

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 16 Apr 2015 14:22:50 +0000

Hard Disk Installation Introduction This document gives information and necessary instructions on how to install SliTaz on a hard disk. This should take about 10 minutes, SliTaz core LiveCD expands to 80 MB, so we suggest a minimum of 120 MB of free space. This way you will be able to install a few more packages. If you can use the LiveCD, you should be able to install SliTaz. You may also do a

internet

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 14:46:26 +0000

Internet Midori - Lightweight web browser Midori is a lightweight web browser with very fast page rendering through the rendering engine Webkit. This is a serious alternative to Firefox for systems with low resources or those seeking a fast and sleek alternative. It supports most web standards,

livecd

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 11 Dec 2015 20:15:31 +0000

Using the LiveCD SliTaz can be used straight from a CD-ROM or USB memory stick, without being installed to a hard drive. There are a number of ways to use the Live media, with options to customise how it starts. SliTaz runs entirely in memory (RAM), independently of the installed host system. It will not damage your other operating system(s) in any way, so you are perfectly safe to try out SliTaz.

liveusb

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sun, 16 Nov 2014 09:35:43 +0000

LiveUSB media Tazusb - Live USB Tool Tazusb is a tool that can create bootable usb media with a few simple commands. It can also compress and backup the entire current filesystem to the media, thus preserving all modifications for future use. Type

multimedia

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 24 Dec 2015 16:16:24 +0000

Multimedia SliTaz sound and video SliTaz LiveCD mode provides sound support, but no video player, however you can watch YouTube by installing the get-flash-plugin package. To watch videos you can use Xine, it supports most formats such as avi, mov, mpeg, etc. Note Xine can also act as an audio player. At the sound level, you have a mixer (alsamixer) and audio player (alsaplayer), both installed by default on the standard LiveCD. SliTaz also provides tools to configure your sound card.

netstart

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:14:22 +0000

Web start and possible immediate installation Special figure in Slitaz ! Slitaz is one of the extremely rare OS's available fully prepared for the web start in live mode using a very small starting program. The starting program can be saved on a old floppy disk or very little special ISO burned on a CD-ROM.

networkconf

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 16 Oct 2019 17:11:24 +0000

Network Configuration About the Network By default SliTaz starts a DHCP client (udhcpc) on eth0 at boot time. If your network card has been identified as an eth0 interface and you use a router, your connection should already be working. DHCP is dynamically configured, on each boot the client asks for a new IP address from the DHCP server which is integrated into the router, or on another computer. If you need a static IP, you can directly edit config files or use the

office

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Wed, 19 Aug 2015 11:56:26 +0000

Office Abiword - Word Processor Abiword is a word processor application rich in features. It contains fast, simple, intuitive lightweight tools and proposes the proper format (.abw), supporting Open Office and Microsoft Word documents, it can also export to PDF or

packages

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 15:12:33 +0000

Packages Tazpkg - Package manager SliTaz provides a tiny package manager which can easily install more software on the system. Tazpkg is a lightweight package manager for .tazpkg files. Completely written in SHell script, it works well with Busybox ash shell and bash. Tazpkg lets you list, install, remove, download, extract, pack, search, or get information about available or installed packages. You can also repack an installed package and automatically upgrade all installed packages. With

pstn

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 03 Apr 2012 22:11:01 +0000

Introduction Dial-up connections use analog modems to transmit digital signals over traditional copper phone lines. These connections require no infrastructure other than the telephone network. * Dial-up is often the only choice available for rural or remote areas where broadband installations do not exist.

security

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Tue, 17 Aug 2010 20:00:54 +0000

SliTaz and System Security Security Policy SliTaz has given a lot of consideration to system security. Applications are tested for many months before being included in the distribution. At boot time, a minimum of services are launched by the rc scripts. For a complete lists of daemons enabled, you can look at the

server-apps

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 15:14:24 +0000

Server applications Dokuwiki Dokuwiki () is a light and powerful Wiki engine using PHP and flat files as a backend; so no database server is needed. To use Dokuwiki you just need to install a web server (lighttpd or apache) and PHP. Drupal Drupal is a powerful

ssh

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 12 Nov 2015 18:45:47 +0000

Secure SHell (SSH) About Dropbear Control and administer remotely with the Dropbear SSH secure server. Dropbear is a small SSH client/server supporting SSH 2. It's compatible with OpenSSH and uses ~/.ssh/authorized_keys for the management of public keys. Dropbear also provides its own version of

start

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Thu, 01 Jan 2015 13:22:14 +0000

Handbook General * LiveCD usage - How to boot and set options at the command prompt. * Desktop - Configure the Desktop and Window Managers. * Commands - List of useful commands. * Installation - HD install instructions. * Accessibility - Assistive technologies. Desktop Applications *

systemtools

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 28 Dec 2015 16:58:11 +0000

System Tools Clex - Command line File Manager To navigate through your folders and directories you can use cd on the command line or install the Clex File Manager: # tazpkg get-install clex Using ncurses, clex is fast and easy to use and can be configured through the files ~/.clexrc and

systemutils

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 15:26:17 +0000

System Administration Devices and disk access With Linux disks and USB media are seen as devices. To access data on them, a device first must be mounted on a mount point (directory). On SliTaz devices can be mounted using a program with a graphical user interface, like

utilities

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 13 Sep 2010 17:23:36 +0000

Utilities Galculator Galculator is a simple GTK 2 based calculator that features basic, paper (cmdline) and scientific modes. You can easily switch number bases between decimal, hexadecimal, binary, etc and it supports ordinary notation/reverse polish notation. To locate from the menu, select

webserver

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Mon, 24 Dec 2012 16:52:56 +0000

LightTPD Web Server About LightTPD This chapter describes the configuration and use of the LightTPD web server. It's a fast, secure, flexible HTTP server, using a small memory footprint. It enables intelligent management of the cpu load and offers FastCGI support, CGI, Auth, Output compression and the rewriting of URLs, etc. LightTPD is a cheap way to host your own site on an old machine.

wm

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Sat, 13 Aug 2022 15:03:05 +0000

Window Managers For every user, the default window manager can be defined by assigning an appropriate value to the WINDOW_MANAGER variable in $HOME/.config/slitaz/applications.conf Default in SliTaz 5.0 is WINDOW_MANAGER=lxde-session On how to configure

xwindow

anonymous@undisclosed.example.com (Anonymous) — Fri, 29 Jul 2022 09:59:59 +0000

X Window System X11 - X Window System The X Window System or X11 provides a window manager running on top of a X server. SliTaz 1.0 and 2.0 by default use the lightweight X server called Xvesa from the Xorg project (www.x.org). Slitaz 3.0 by default uses the Xorg server, there is however a Xvesa flavor.