I was getting really bad battery life on my Fedora 19 system, and did not find much on how to tune it. Finally I found something that just does not need much configuration but works pretty well. So, here is what you need to do:
sudo yum install tuned tuned-adm
The second package, tuned-adm installs additional themes for power saving. It is optional and not mandatory. Once you have installed these, you can do the following:
Continue readingIf you like the kind of effects in those photobooths then here is something that will get you some pretty good time.
http://fedoraproject.org/en/using/tutorials/cheese.html
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On Fedora with Gnome-shell 3, its been long time that I was not able to get transparent window. So, finally I thought to spend some time to try to fix that. Finally got that fixed with all the configurations below in the conkyrc. Here the default color is set to LightSkyBlue but feel free to change that.
I hope this helps fedora community who is struggling to get transparent window. And here is the code :
Continue readingIn Fedora, ramdisks are not created by default as is the case with RHEL. So, if you need to get Ramdisks on Fedora, then you can do this:
sudo yum install MAKEDEV
This will create some default Ramdisk’s in the “/dev” directory. Now, if you need to change anything then feel free to go to “/etc/makedev.d” and feel free to change these files.
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ss is :
ss is used to dump socket statistics. It allows showing information similar to netstat. It can display more TCP and state informationsthan other tools.
This comes in iproute package in Fedora. So, to install this you would need to install “iproute” if not installed already.
sudo yum install iproute
Now, once you have done that you can look at the man page to check what all you can see with ss. but here are some examples:
Continue readingFirst off, install using the command
sudo yum install dwb
Now for the description:
dwb is small webkit-based web-browser in the spirit of tiling window managers,that aims to be mostly keyboard-driven.
I liked the fact that it does well what it tries to do and pretty good at being fast.
I was trying to get steam on linux on my Fedora box. Headed over to steam website, but was astonished to find only Ubuntu client over there. A little googling presented me with the developer website blog of valvesoftware.com. So, here is the link for you, just in case you are searching for the same:
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