conky is a good way to enliven your desktop alongside with saving lots of resources. Configuring conky is not very much tricky, especially if you would want to use magic command: man conky. You should have probably read my previous…
I have recently updated my second laptop, DELL D820, to Fedora 13 using a live KDE CD. This was a clean install because, actually, I did not use the upgrade mechanism and formatted the root partition. The overall impression of…
Kernel parameters Add kernel parameters acpi_osi=”!Windows 2009″ and acpi_backlight=vendor. There is an interesting article at http://www.cnpbagwell.com/linux/fedora-13-and-asus-eee-pc-1005peb but the scripts will not work in Fedora 12 with the Eee PC 1001HA model. The newest 2.6.32.13-120 Fedora kernel optimized for netbooks is…
The below describes how to install Conky-colors Plus on Fedora 11. You can have a look how it generally looks like at its original web site. Prepare for the installation: cd ~/software/ sudo yum install pystatgrab statgrab-tools
There is a known dysfunction of a keyboard layout switcher in GNOME – a habit of not showing a country flag. It is so much well-known that soon it is going to be even more well-known than GNOME. UPDATED
Installing true type fonts for system-wide use in Gnome, KDE, etc.: Become root: su – As root, create the fonts directory: mkdir /usr/share/fonts/ttf Copy the font files in, cd into the fonts directory: cp [fontfiles] /usr/share/fonts/ttf cd /usr/share/fonts/ttf Make fonts.dir:…
