Comments on: Fedora 15: Post Installation Tasks

By: E3D3

E3D3 — Tue, 08 Nov 2011 22:21:21 +0000

Thank you very much for this nice help that made me very happy. Great !

By: Sean

Sean — Mon, 31 Oct 2011 00:34:16 +0000

Dude,
It’s freaking FREE. If you actually use it for a while it is quite useful. Oh sure it is new and has to be polished, but I like it (unlike your comment).

By: JenniW

JenniW — Tue, 11 Oct 2011 23:37:44 +0000

One thing you cannot do without: A Taskbar
Install and run: “gnome-panel –replace”.
This will give you a top and a bottom panel; the top one covered over by the default panel.
Install and run: “dconf-editor”
Edit: org -> gnome -> gnome-panel -> layout -> toplevels -> top-panel
Set option to auto-hide the top panel, and that gets it out of the way at the top.
Alt/right-click on the bottom panel and choose the Options;
set Background to “Solid Color”; choose black (rgb:000); set Style to 60% transparant.
Alt/right-click and choose ‘Add to panel’; search for ‘Main Menu’ and ‘Add’;
Alt/right-clock on the new ‘Main Menu’ icon, and select ‘Move’, than drag the icon to the leftmost corner on the taskbar.
Add other items as needed.
To startup the newly configured taskbar upon login:
run ‘gnome-session-properties’ and Add ‘gnome-panel –replace’

By: Abhishek Singh

Abhishek Singh — Mon, 26 Sep 2011 04:24:04 +0000

Hi Toto,
Your way works too. But if you extract the “libflashplayer.so” in ~/.mozilla/plugins, then it will work only for the current user. If you have only one user on the system then whichever way you choose does not matter. But if you have multiple users, you’ll have to install it system-wide so that other users can use the flash plugin.

By: toto

toto — Sun, 25 Sep 2011 16:08:15 +0000

when i install flash i just do this:
1) download the tar.gz file from adobe

2) extract the file that ends with .so

copy to ~username/.mozilla/plugins

thats it

By: SquiDUT

SquiDUT — Tue, 16 Aug 2011 18:08:30 +0000

Excellent tutorial for Fedora-Newbies like myself!

Thank You Sir.
My opinion on gnomeshell:
It’s green; not such a mature system as many may think, compared the flexibility of use of compiz (the abiliy to bind virtually ANYTHING to a keypress or corner+mouse-event is the reason it sits on top of any other window manager, Even kde lags behind in bind-o-rama since you can’t combine mouse & keyboard events or edge+mouse event. That’s why even GNOME3 & KDE4 have got great desktop expereinces it’s freedom of choice that give birth to open source. compiz has found way to squeeze out the unused Teraflops of those modern GPUs and lave all window management workload for them to carry. and through painstaking twitchy tweaking yo may someday achieve intuitive & simple desktop switching at the press of a mouse button; can you see!! it’s a twitchy-tweaker-painstaking-wonder to get it done, instead of havin a bind-any-mouse&keyboard-combination-you want button. This would allow maximum accesibility options since most devies designed to aid the physically-challenged members of our society are designed around three basic input-methods: emulate a standard keyboard press, emulate a standard mouse-event and/or mousebutton (scroll, press&hold), or a combination of both.

Now I’m not saying hey! look at omiz is the way to go! All I’m saying is take it and improve it, add the BIND-ANY-F-ING-THING-BUTTON for every window management function as a standard feature for any window manager that has the pride of calling itself as such.

I’ve used & tweaked them all: dos: win 3.1, 95, 98 , ME, Nextart, geoshell, gnome 1 2 3, Avant window navigator, 3d sphere, object-dock, cairo-dock, beryl, emerald, compiz fusion, compiz, ked2 3 4 glx-dock, etc. my current choice is gnome2.latest compiz 9.latest heavily tweaked cairo-dock with opengl. any comuter with 128+MB on video can use it Flexible & easy to use but it’s still a pain in the ass to configure. Now I’ testing gnome3 but it appears nowhere near polished.

By: Abhishek Singh

Abhishek Singh — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 05:04:40 +0000

Hi Cedric,
Thanks for pointing out the issue with the “ln -s” command, I’ve corrected that (by adding a “sudo” at the start of the command).

If you want to install other themes the way I’ve instructed in this tutorial, you do not need to uninstall. Just download the theme, extract it (if it is a compressed archive), and copy it to the ~/.themes/ directory. Then use the gnome-tweak-tool to select which theme you want to apply.

By: Cedric Godmer

Cedric Godmer — Tue, 12 Jul 2011 04:46:53 +0000

Im not really use to linux and gnome…
Maybe it is a good thing since I do not have to “unlearn” gnome 2

Any how I feel better navigating around the system with those little UI tweak that you provided in your post-installation guide.

Did not have any issue with those console commands.. excep this one ln -s /usr/lib64/mozilla/plugins/libflashplayer.so … but no big deal it only required the administratr privilege.

What if I decide to install a complete new theme that I could get from deviant art… should I uninstall those gnome shell prior ??

anyway Thanks … Lot s of fun incoming for me

By: Abhishek Singh

Abhishek Singh — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 07:19:13 +0000

Dear Tuomas,
If you clearly read my statement, it says – “There was a lot of fuss and discussions about the usability of GNOME 3 ranging for people calling it a crap in usability design to the best ever interface ever seen. My personal thought is that GNOME 3 might not appeal for GNOME 2.x users as it’s a complete shift from the previous UI, but gradually you’ll get around it.”

I’m not taking any sides. I just stated that there some people who claim GNOME 3 as the worst interface ever (in regard to usability), and a few people claiming that is is one of the best ever polished interface. It is difficult for me as well to unlearn the GNOME 2.x experience/learning and switch to GNOME 3. What I stated was that gradually you get around it, and it is going to be the default GNOME in the days to come. Besides, GNOME 3 is at its early stage, and there are more bug-fixes and modifications to come. Let’s see how GNOME 3 is going to be in future.

By: Tuomas

Tuomas — Fri, 01 Jul 2011 00:54:07 +0000

“in usability design to the best ever interface ever seen.”

It’s the opposite: Remove all functionality and you have a nice and clean desktop. Which is totally useless. But ooh, it’s so shiny and clean. Just like a smart phone without a single application.

Fastest way to use anything is direct access, with keyboard. Second fastest is with mouse. This desktop hasn’t either and you claim it’s “best ever”?

Could you be so kind that you’ll define exact details that make it even as usable as previous version with icons on the desktop and menus (which this one don’t have).