Fedora

GNOME Legacy and GNOME 3

For anyone who prefers to stick with “GNOME Legacy” (Fallback mode) rather than GNOME 3 with GNOME Shell, you can configure your default session by running: cd /usr/share/gnome-session/sessions sudo mv gnome.session gnome-new.session sudo mv gnome-fallback.session gnome.session

Fedora 13 with Xorg 1.8.x, GNOME 2.30, and "Fixed" Nautilus

With the release of GNOME 2.30, Nautilus has reverted to browser mode as the default. So long, spatial mode! In Fedora 13, Xorg now relies on udev rather than hal for automatic hardware detection. Bonus note: I noticed Totem now remembers the last-played playback position. Fedora and GNOME keep getting better with time.

Receiving Files from Phone to Computer

Duh! To receive files from a phone or other Bluetooth-enabled device to a laptop running Linux, make sure to enable the “Receive files in Downloads folder over Bluetooth” option in GNOME File Sharing Preferences. Notes: Bluetooth on Fedora

rt2860 on Fedora 11

For anyone missing the wireless driver on the Asus Eee PC 1000H: rt2860 has made it into kernel staging and is not yet part of Fedora 11. To build it yourself, download the latest snapshot from the Linux kernel git staging tree using the “snapshot” link. Once downloaded, extract the archive and append the following line to the Makefile: obj-m := rt2860sta.o Then run the command below to compile and install the module: ...