Post-Install Solutions

Additional HDD via Terminal — by opsec — last modified Jun 13, 2008 05:32 PM

This is a simple howto designed to show you the basics of adding a new hard disk to an existing system using fdisk and mkfs.

Compiz-Fusion with Fusion Icon — by scott_glaser — last modified Mar 20, 2009 08:03 AM

Compiz Fusion is the "cool desktop effects" most notably the Cube that most of you have seen in a screenshot or videos all over the Internet. Fedora comes with a version called Desktop Effects, simply compiz, however is does not have all the features of compiz-fusion. You can take a look at it under System -> Preferences -> Look and Feel -> Desktop Effects. Now if you want to use all the effects, plugins, etc . . . this is the post for you to follow.

Configuring SUDO — by Richard June — last modified Jan 30, 2008 03:46 AM

It is a known fact that operating a computer as administrator (or root in linux) is very bad. This How-To covers how to configure and use sudo to perform commands as root, allowing you to do what you need to do, and still behaving like a moderately responsible person. There are two parts: part one is configuring sudo to allow users in the group "wheel" to run commands as root. Part two is adding users to the "wheel" group. Allowing users to run commands as root without first requiring a password is a potentially dangerous thing. Extra care should be taken if you choose to let sudo run without a password.

Converting an ext3 root partition to ext4 in Fedora 10 — by Rehan Khan — last modified Jan 21, 2009 06:58 AM

This how-to describes a method to migrate an ext3 partition to ext4. There are two variations, 1) with backward compatibility to ext3 or 2) without backward compatibility to ext3 and describes the pro/cons of each.

Customizing the Grub system bootloader — by opsec — last modified Jun 16, 2008 08:00 PM

This howto will describe how you can change the background image/color, make a new background/splash image from your existing image, rename the menu, reorder the position of menu items, add extra boot arguments to the kernel, change the default menu item, change the default timeout before the system loads the default menu item, add another operating system to the menu.

Dual Boot with Windows — by daMaestro — last modified Apr 27, 2009 06:51 PM

Some people still have a use to dual boot to windows. An example, playing video games or running other software that wont run using something like wine. This brief howto illustrates how to configure the grub boot loader to also be able to boot windows.

Fedora Unity Paste Tool — by Walter Francis — last modified Jun 08, 2009 08:51 AM

It is often useful to be able to easily paste text to our Fedora Pastebin at http://fpaste.org and this simple script will do that and return the resulting URL so that people may examine the output. This can hopefully help folks who are for some reason stuck without X, working remotely, or any other reason they may be unable to paste something into the pastebin.

Firefox and Thunderbird — by scott_glaser — last modified Mar 24, 2008 01:27 AM

Firefox is now the default web browser in Fedora Linux. The award-winning Web browser is better than ever. Browse the Web with confidence - Firefox protects you from viruses, spyware and pop-ups. Enjoy improvements to performance, ease of use and privacy. It's easy to import your favorites and settings and get started. Thunderbird is not yet installed by default, but that is what this procedure is about. Thunderbird delivers. Enjoy safe, fast, and easy e-mail, with intelligent spam filters, quick message search, and customizable views. Brought to you by the makers of Firefox, Thunderbird makes email better.

Gnome-keyring automatic opened when login with pam keyring — by Thomas Janssen — last modified Apr 07, 2008 02:40 PM

How to get the gnome-keyring automatic opened for, example Wlan, when you login into Gnome.

Hardware Monitoring with GKrellM — by Re Alvarez — last modified Apr 16, 2008 10:15 AM

GKrellM is a single process stack of system monitors which supports applying themes to match its appearance to your window manager, Gtk, or any other theme. You can monitor things like hardware temperature, wifi signal strength, mailbox, weather, moon calendar, sun clock, RAM usage, hard disk I/O, etc., etc. using GKrellM

How to Change Runlevels — by bobjensen — last modified Apr 22, 2009 06:55 AM

Many people get confused when trying to boot in to a runlevel other than runlevel 5, for example runlevel 3, disabiling the GUI front end with which most users are familiar. Hopefully this howto will help answer the questions "How do I disable X" or "How do I boot without X" or even "How do I get to single user mode."

How to reset forgotten root password — by Re Alvarez — last modified Mar 11, 2008 11:44 AM

You can reset the root password in case you have forgotten it. For this we use boot options in grub. We will boot in runlevel 1 for this purpose. Runlevel 1 is Single User mode.

How to to remove Icons from the Desktop in Gnome — by Re Alvarez — last modified Feb 29, 2008 05:25 PM

GConf-Editor is a tool used for editing the GConf configuration database. It might be useful when the proper configuration utility for some software provides no way of changing some option.

Improve Fonts in Fedora — by Walter Francis — last modified Jun 17, 2009 09:58 PM

Fedora ships with a reasonable configuration for most users, however, some tweaks can be applied if you're using an LCD. Additional improvements to font rendering can also be applied if you wish to enable a patent encumbered font renderer. The method to do each of these, separately, are outlined below. I suggest doing both to maximize your font appearance! In addition to these font rendering changes, there is also information for adding additional fonts to Fedora in the sections following. Please note that some suggested changes in this document can be very subjective based on individual preferences, hardware used, etc. The Troubleshooting section goes into some more detail in this regard and should be considered before making changes.

Installing and using Smart Package Manager — by Rehan Khan — last modified Jan 30, 2009 07:23 AM

Smart Package Manager (aka Smart) is a utility similar to Yum or Yumex. It can be used to install software and upgrade your system. This how-to will cover installing Smart and give a brief introduction to get you going.

Installing Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Client on Fedora 8 — by Ihab Al Merhebi — last modified Jan 30, 2008 02:35 AM

The Citrix MetaFrame Presentation Client is a remote access client that allows people to connect to applications available on central servers. The purpose of this how-to is to resolve the "missing dependency : libXm.so.3" problem that you face when attempting to install it on Fedora 8.

Java IcedTea (OpenJDK) — by jpmahowald — last modified May 07, 2008 03:38 AM

Previously to get a Sun JDK for Java required additional steps as it was not redistributable. With IcedTea, based on OpenJDK, there is a Fedora package of the Java 1.7 preview.

Open terminal with Gnome right click — by Southern_Gentleman — last modified Mar 24, 2008 12:11 AM

In up-stream Gnome Wisdom, the right click open terminal option was removed in version 2.14 + the following will show how to get this fantastic feature back

PPTP client config — by strikeforce — last modified Mar 24, 2008 12:08 AM

PPTP Client is a Linux, FreeBSD, NetBSD and OpenBSD client for the proprietary Microsoft Point-to-Point Tunneling Protocol, PPTP. Allows connection to a PPTP based Virtual Private Network (VPN) as used by employers and some cable and ADSL internet service providers.

Registering your hardware with Hardware4Linux to help other members of the community — by Rehan Khan — last modified Jan 21, 2009 07:00 AM

Hardware4Linux is a tool and a website to register your hardware with an easy facility to make your installation notes public to help others installing that hardware. It is complimentary to Smolt hardware registry but is somewhat easier to use and user friendly. You can quickly and easily upload your machines configuration and append notes to hardware you had problemns with or had to to manually configure.