Beartooth wrote:
On Mon, 30 Jun 2008 14:13:41 -0400, William Case wrote:
> Hi Beartooth;
>
> I am answering this at the risk of offending you.
>
On the contrary! Many thanks!
When in doubt, assume I *have* missed something; as the Boomers
retire and escape the Gates of Hell, there will be accelerating numbers
of people needing the same things -- even when I do know or have seen, as
was not the case here. You're a great help!
> Because of the advice given in response to your original post and
> wanting a hardware browser myself, I downloaded and installed lshw-gui.
> A little confusing at first, the display needs to be better configured.
>
> Are you clicking on each of the components to get the details ?
>
> (i.e. It's parts tree is horizontal rather than vertical)
>
No, in fact I hadn't. I certainly wondered why the display was so
sparse, but a horizontal tree is new to me (at least if it's an
electronic tree).
So I tried lshw, lshw-gui, and lshw-gui &; but no combination of
left clicks, right clicks, and hitting enter with either of the latter
two got me any more than a tiny yellow box saying "This pane
displays .... <whatever>" (I have all machines set to single-click, in
case that matters.) And I get that much (more than I had before) just by
hovering the cursor.
Mine is set to single-click as well but, in this gui, I had to
double-click the *bold* entries to get down into the meat of the
information.
Pretty cool tool.
K