For starters, you can do a full-on plugins and codecs installation from the guide below. So I won't be telling that.
*www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f9.html
I will be sharing some other stuff here, which I normally tend to do on my Fedora box and hope it will benefit the others.
1) Service Configuration:
You can customize what services you want to run and what to run at startup and then some more. Notice there is a difference here, by run I mean in all the runlevels and by startup, I mean only in the graphical login or runlevel 5.
Startup
Here's what my startup looks like
You can comfortable disable(uncheck) the things like I have done here. You will find the launcher at System Main Menu > Preferences > Personal > Sessions.
Services
The services which I have left ON are NetworkManager, anacron, auditd, crond, iptables, messagebus, microcode_ctl, qemu, restorecond, rsyslog and wine. You can disable others except the ones with the controller like icons., see image below
Those are required by the system on different run levels, so you can leave it as it is. You will find the launcher at System Main Menu > Administration > Services.
2) Sudo :
This is for the die-hard users of sudo. To be able to do so, you have to add your username with privileges to the sudoers file, which is read by the system for granting access as per the defined objectives.
To edit this file, you have to do as follows in the terminal
$su
Enter root pass:
root$/usr/sbin/visudo
This will open a file in the terminal and you have to use the vi" commands to add the entry. It's pretty easy actually...
a> Use the cursor keys to move the in the file, in this case, keeping pressed the <down> cursor key will scroll the file downwards.
b> Look for a entry like root ALL=(ALL) ALL
c> That is the entry for the root, ALL implies total control over the system.
d> Now you have to add your username to reflect that, go to end of the file, hit the 'insert' key once to get into entry mode and type, i.,e like this
Look at the image below
A word of caution, adding like me will give you total control as in root, so use it wisely. When the entry is added, hit 'Escape' once, then the ':' key, then type 'wq' and hit 'enter'.
wq - is used to save the file
q - quit
q! - quit without saving
If you think you botched up the file, then please stop and use 'q!' immediately. Then you can start afresh again. For more information on visudo, read it's documentation.
Now can immediately check if it's working fine, using the rugular method of sudo'ing i.e., $sudo <somecommand>
3) Adding nifty packages
Apart from the plugins, the applications and all, there are some really nifty utilities available from the repo. Some of them are..
nautilus-open-terminal : As the name says, it adds an entry to the right click menu to open the location in a terminal wherever applicable. A very handy app if you ask me. Install it by..
$yum install nautilus-open-terminal
yumex : A graphical frontend for the yum installer, very neat and very good.
$yum install yumex
nautilus-scripts : A neat set of scripts for the Nautilus file manager accessed by the right click menu like image conversion, batch rename, sound conversion etc. Just put it in search box in Yumex and you will find them.
gprename, krename : A must have if you plan on batch renaming files.
$yum install krename
soundconverter : Again a nifty app for quick conversions of audio files.
$yum install soundconverter
gconf-editor : As known by all it's to control the various aspects of the GNOME desktop, if still not installed by the distro, then
$yum install gconf-editor
DONE. That's all I can remember for now. I will keep updating as I find more.
OTHERS, please add your tips of the same in this thread.
*www.mjmwired.net/resources/mjm-fedora-f9.html
I will be sharing some other stuff here, which I normally tend to do on my Fedora box and hope it will benefit the others.
1) Service Configuration:
You can customize what services you want to run and what to run at startup and then some more. Notice there is a difference here, by run I mean in all the runlevels and by startup, I mean only in the graphical login or runlevel 5.
Startup
Here's what my startup looks like
*www.imgx.org/files/17059_eo4kx/starrtup.png
You can comfortable disable(uncheck) the things like I have done here. You will find the launcher at System Main Menu > Preferences > Personal > Sessions.
Services
The services which I have left ON are NetworkManager, anacron, auditd, crond, iptables, messagebus, microcode_ctl, qemu, restorecond, rsyslog and wine. You can disable others except the ones with the controller like icons., see image below
*www.imgx.org/files/17057_zgdec/services.png
Those are required by the system on different run levels, so you can leave it as it is. You will find the launcher at System Main Menu > Administration > Services.
2) Sudo :
This is for the die-hard users of sudo. To be able to do so, you have to add your username with privileges to the sudoers file, which is read by the system for granting access as per the defined objectives.
To edit this file, you have to do as follows in the terminal
$su
Enter root pass:
root$/usr/sbin/visudo
This will open a file in the terminal and you have to use the vi" commands to add the entry. It's pretty easy actually...
a> Use the cursor keys to move the in the file, in this case, keeping pressed the <down> cursor key will scroll the file downwards.
b> Look for a entry like root ALL=(ALL) ALL
c> That is the entry for the root, ALL implies total control over the system.
d> Now you have to add your username to reflect that, go to end of the file, hit the 'insert' key once to get into entry mode and type, i.,e like this
Code:
username ALL=(root) ALL*www.imgx.org/files/17058_etorf/visudo.png
A word of caution, adding like me will give you total control as in root, so use it wisely. When the entry is added, hit 'Escape' once, then the ':' key, then type 'wq' and hit 'enter'.
wq - is used to save the file
q - quit
q! - quit without saving
If you think you botched up the file, then please stop and use 'q!' immediately. Then you can start afresh again. For more information on visudo, read it's documentation.
Now can immediately check if it's working fine, using the rugular method of sudo'ing i.e., $sudo <somecommand>
3) Adding nifty packages
Apart from the plugins, the applications and all, there are some really nifty utilities available from the repo. Some of them are..
nautilus-open-terminal : As the name says, it adds an entry to the right click menu to open the location in a terminal wherever applicable. A very handy app if you ask me. Install it by..
$yum install nautilus-open-terminal
yumex : A graphical frontend for the yum installer, very neat and very good.
$yum install yumex
nautilus-scripts : A neat set of scripts for the Nautilus file manager accessed by the right click menu like image conversion, batch rename, sound conversion etc. Just put it in search box in Yumex and you will find them.
gprename, krename : A must have if you plan on batch renaming files.
$yum install krename
soundconverter : Again a nifty app for quick conversions of audio files.
$yum install soundconverter
gconf-editor : As known by all it's to control the various aspects of the GNOME desktop, if still not installed by the distro, then
$yum install gconf-editor
DONE. That's all I can remember for now. I will keep updating as I find more.
OTHERS, please add your tips of the same in this thread.
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