Comments on: Top 18 Things to do after installing Fedora 20, the Xfce spin

By: Patrick Matthew Barahona

Patrick Matthew Barahona — Wed, 24 Jun 2015 23:54:00 +0000

In reply to Bob. But Korora is very bloated. Some of us like to build our distros, not having stuff we won't ever use. Even base Fedora XFCE, I delete quite a few packages to replace them or just don't need them.

By: Riya

Riya — Thu, 16 Oct 2014 06:59:00 +0000

Hi,

In Fedora 17 64bit I got a feature from settings->details->graphics. But in fedora 20 there is no graphics option in settings->details section. Can any body help me?

Thanks

By: Bagus Aji Santoso

Bagus Aji Santoso — Wed, 03 Sep 2014 13:19:00 +0000

In reply to Johnny. No, you can access Appearance setting without root. Check under Settings menu

By: Johnny

Johnny — Sat, 30 Aug 2014 01:14:00 +0000

4. Select the Greybird theme and a splash screen
Go to Settings > Appearance and select the Greybird theme.

APPEARANCE ??? WHAT APPEARANCE ?
I dont have that one my F20
Is it only in the ROOT login ?

By: Mike Simms

Mike Simms — Tue, 24 Jun 2014 19:57:00 +0000

In reply to Mike Simms. An update on the above to say I've applied the same font tweaks to MATE on another of my systems. Screenshot attached FYI. The GTK Theme is Blue-Submarine. The mintmenu (available from Fedora repos) is using the DeLorean-Dark Theme. Both themes are included in mate-themes-extras package from the Fedora repos.

By: Mike Simms

Mike Simms — Mon, 23 Jun 2014 17:07:00 +0000

A nice guide and thanks for sharing. Especially the font info. It looks a heck of a lot better than the vanilla install did. I use Google Chrome so already had the repo file to copy across to the fresh install of xcfe.

By: ivo

ivo — Sun, 06 Apr 2014 19:32:00 +0000

In reply to Silver Moon. yeah m8, great guide ,but i choose xfce cause of simple and elegant settings available....cairo dock is heavy on my hp i7 laptop haha and is toooooo mcosx looking and i prefer fedora :)

By: Israel Torres

Israel Torres — Fri, 21 Mar 2014 07:30:00 +0000

How to configure the clock, please!

By: Bob

Bob — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 21:39:00 +0000

You know that the Korora remix does most of those out of the box….

By: Shred

Shred — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 11:30:00 +0000

After the Gnome team finally p*ssed me off because of their arrogance and ignorance, I’m now back to Cinnamon. They did a great job with version 2.0. I use Docky as dock, which could need some more love on Fedora (the extensions are missing), but is a little more lightweight than Cairo-Dock. It’s the right mix of a modern, but usable (and configurable!) DE.

By: Adam Williamson

Adam Williamson — Sun, 26 Jan 2014 05:54:00 +0000

Nice article, but some notes on fonts:

Fedora actually has all the Google and Noto fonts packaged, you don’t have to go outside the repos to install them. Look for the google-droid-* and google-noto-* packages.

Hinting level preference tends to be a personal thing – some people might like Slight or Full more than medium, and it’ll depend on display quality and fonts selected and stuff too.

subpixel order is a setting that is either correct or not, and depends on your display and how it’s oriented. RGB is the correct setting for *most* LCDs in their stock orientation (landscape, with the logo at the bottom). If you orient your displays vertically, you’ll want either vRGB or vBGR. If you have your display upside down for some reason, you’ll probably want BGR. For a few annoying displays, you’ll want BGR for the stock orientation. Happily, this is one where you can usually see the correct setting quite easily just by checking each one and looking at your fonts carefully.

By: Albin

Albin — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 15:10:00 +0000

XFCE is also my favorite environment. But a heck of a lot of work here when Mint 16 XFCE has most of the above pre-installed.

By: Silver Moon

Silver Moon — Fri, 24 Jan 2014 05:13:00 +0000

In reply to Shadow. Things like Cairo dock and conky are much of a user preference. Cairo dock is resource intensive too.

By: Shadow

Shadow — Thu, 23 Jan 2014 19:28:00 +0000

You forgot Cairo Dock from RPMFusion