Sep 9, 2011
Include Power Off button in Menu (Fedora+Gnome)
By default, the Power Off button is not included in the Menu. Here's the command to make the Power Button appear on the menu:
yum install gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status-menu
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Include Power Off button in Menu (Fedora+Gnome)
By default, the Power Off button is not included in the Menu. Here's the command to make the Power Button appear on the menu:
yum install gnome-shell-extensions-alternative-status-menu
Prevent Laptop From Sleeping When Closing the Lid in Fedora
Coming from a background of Windows, it's quite easy to tell your laptop not to sleep when the lid is closed. Linux is another matter though. Although it's not that hard, it's not a piece of cake however. Here's how:
Open Terminal. Make sure you are not logged in as root. Don't use sudo either.
Type gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.power lid-close-ac-action "blank" . This command simply tells the laptop not to sleep when the lid is closed and the laptop is plugged in.
Minimize,Maximize, and Close in Fedora 15 and Gnome 3
The first weird thing I noticed in my Fedora installation is the missing buttons for Minimize and Maximize. If you want to see those familiar buttons again, follow the steps below.
Go to Activities>Applications and click on Add/Remove software.
Search for gconf-editor and then install it.
Once the application has been installed, open it. In the interface click on desktop>gnome>shell>windows.
Modify the field button_layout to contain the value :minimize,maximize,close.
Logout to apply the changes or press Alt+F2, type r, press ENTER.
When Firefox Doesn't Play Fair
Since I installed Fedora 15 on my laptop, using Firefox while surfing became very problematic. First, https sites (e.g Facebook, Gmail) fail to load. A friend (Mapy Sebastian) was able to introduce a temporary fix enabling me to surf once again. The following night however, Firefox was rendering pages slowly. I blamed the Internet connection but then I realized my housemates who were running Windows had no problems. I only realized it a while ago that Firefox with IPv6 enabled causes slowness and even failure to render pages.To cut the story short, here's the fix:
Type about:config on Firefox address bar. A page containing a warning is shown but just continue.
Type network.dns.disableIPv6 on the filter bar. Click on the entry to toggle the value to true.
Restart browser.
After this, Firefox should run faster and bugless (hopefully).
Reference: http://thedaneshproject.com/posts/disable-ipv6-in-firefox-3/
Dropbox on Fedora 15 installation + fix for not syncing
Just tried to install Dropbox on my Fedora 15 box. Installation was fine however syncing didn't want to come right, typing in 'dropbox fedora 15 does not sync' into Google just gave me a bunch of links to be with the same problem, so here's how to install and quickly sort the sync issue.
Go to https://www.dropbox.com/downloading?os=lnx download your Dropbox release, run the package and complete installation.
After you complete the installation link your account and all you'll end up with an empty Dropbox folder, which won't sync at all to your Dropbox account
Open Terminal and type the following;
dropbox stop dropbox start -i
Do not run the above as root, unless you plan to only access your Dropbox as root
Rerun through the installation and it should work
Hope this helps a few people
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