steam on Linux – for Fedora

2013-02-22 1 min read Fedora
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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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Gnome Tips

2011-02-25 3 min read Fedora GNOME

Add/Edit GDM Sessions

Each session is a *.desktop file located at /usr/share/xsessions.

GDM appearance

You can change background image, gtk/icon theme by hands (as described at Gnome_2.28_Changes#Configuring_gdm_2.28), or you can use gdm2setup from the AUR.

Tweaking

If your gnome applications seem sluggish and gnome hangs at start-up after killing the previous session, it’s likely you haven’t set your /etc/hosts file correctly and your /etc/hosts file includes:

127.0.0.1       localhost.localdomain     localhost      YOURHOSTNAME

Then run “/bin/hostname YOURHOSTNAME” and “/sbin/ifconfig lo up” as root.

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