extremely satisfied with fedora 10 xfce spin

hey people ... mmm how about installing open office ... does any one have a detailed guide ? or it doesn't need a guide just a simple installation

 

It is as easy as open a Terminal, and then

Code:

wget "http://openoffice.bouncer.osuosl.org/?product=OpenOffice.org&os=linuxintel&lang=en-US&version=3.0.0"

then

Code:

tar -zvxf OOo*

and then

Code:

sudo rpm -i OOO*/RPMS/o*

finally

Code:

sudo rpm -i OOO*/RPMS/desktop-integration/openoffice.org3.0-redhat*

That will install OpenOffice3.

 

i said in a previous post that the cpu was not scaling. I was wrong it is. I installed open office writer and cale (word and excel). The easy way...

# yum install openoffice.org-writer
# yum install openoffice.org-calc

Another thing I hae noticed is I followed the guide but the solar boot screen does not work and my volume always starts at 0%, not that this really bothers me as it saves battery and i just turn it up when I need it.

Mine boots alot slower than claimed in the guide around a minute id say.

 

hey people the new kernel just works fine ( no need to make an intrid file to cancel the additional 10 seconds on the boot )

mmm i mean 2.6.27.9-159 just got a clean install yesterday and found it by chance + kmod-madwifi is already out for it

 

both card readers only work is there is a card in at boot.

 

Add the following to rc.local to get both card readers working even if they're empty at boot

Code:

# to get sd card readers to respond to cards inserted after boot:
/sbin/modprobe pciehp pciehp_force=1

 

thanks.. you dont know how to enable automatic login do you?

 

Does sleep work if /home is on an SDHC in left slot?

 

You can set it to auto-login by using a timed login. Edit (as root) /etc/gdm/custom.conf to add these lines:

Code:

   [daemon]
    TimedLoginEnable=true
    TimedLogin=yourusername
    TimedLoginDelay=1

The TimedLoginDelay is the number of seconds the GDM login screen is shown before "yourusername" is automatically logged in. It can be set to zero if you don't want to see the login screen at all.

 

Well I've just followed the guide mentioned earlier and I'm really pleased

Now a noob type of question - under Limpus we could 'right click' by tapping the corner of the touchpad. I can't seem to do this with Fedora. There doesn't seem to be any way to configure this under mouse settings so I'm guessing that I need to edit a file somewhere.

Can someone help?

 

you the kiddie. All working perfectly now. I am definately getting more than 2:30 hours on fc10. Not timed it yet but id say its closer to 2:45. It does boot alot slower though no way near the claimed 25 secs on the guide. Id say at least a minute maybe more. I am very happy with this spin though everything works yet I have the power and flexibility of a full distro at my finger tips. I have not booted up my dell laptop since xmas eve lol!!

 

Hi all,

The right hand sd slot still only works for me if I have a card plugged in at boot - no problems with the left one however. Tried adding the line to rc.local - no effect. So deleted that and tried the suggestion on Jorge's site (post 79) about creating an additional file in /etc/modprobe.d ended up with neither card slot working.

So now back to square one left card slot fine, right hand slot only working if card in at boot. I could live with it because I'm really pleased with how this distro runs on my one - but if it can be fixed...

Any other ideas?

 

OK I am still having card reader troubles. They still only work if the card is in at boot!

 

Works for me. I googled some instructions on seems that the SD-card doesn't lose it's files if it's formatted as XFS.

 

aaaaaaaaaaah at last something i can answer i am a noob by the way

okik first you need to enable SMHconfigure by the way in this forum
http://forums.fedoraforum.org/showthread.php?t=206814

after the restart to make sure open a terminal and type
synclient -l
( you should see a list of your touchpad settings and amoung the list there should be two items called RTCornerButton & RBCornerButton )
the next command is to assign the cornor buttons for the clicks so

synclient RTCornerButton=2 ; synclient RBCornerButton=3

while 2 = middle button and 3 = right click

the problem is that i couldn't find a way to make synclient remmber this after a restart so i just added the last line
synclient RTCornerButton=2 ; synclient RBCornerButton=3
to the auto start commands in the settings tap


i hope i did well in my explanation

 

hey people i don't know why ( maybe because of linpus ) but i do prefare kpowersave a lot more than gnome-power-manager

it gives you more details and more control

so simply to get it

install kpowersave and remove gnome-power-manager


<<< i was afraid uninstalling gnome-power-manager would mess up my system ... but Fedora accepts it really nicely

 

Yes you did good and all works perfectly after reboot by adding that line to the autostarted apps. Speaking of which, presumably they all add a little time to the boot process, so how many can I safely 'untick'?

I'm guessing the Print Queue Applet would be alright to untick and what about the SELinux Trouble shooter thing - didn't we disable SELinux in Jorge's guide :?:

Cheers

 

mmm hey people i need help

mmm after installing kpowersave i noticed that my boot time is kinda longer ( splash screen ) is taking longer

any suggestion for that ?

 

Really? Mind posting the exact link on where you have read about that?

 

It is bound to happen, because kpowesave is not native in xfce and is intended for kde. mine is a lot faster now after removing a lot of unwanted apps and some gnome apps which tends to slow my aao. keeping it simple with as much native xfce apps i could find to use and removing the gnome ones lol.