Adjust your fedora system after installed it(安裝之後的調校)

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After a while, I figure out that I cannot install Fedora from the minimum installation. I will spend a lot of time on adjustment of the system, and the result of the operation system is pretty bad(crack a lots!!!!) In the final installation of the laptop OS, I just install the standard Fedora workstation.

Installation Setup

partition of the disk

Actually, t he automatic choosen for the partition disk is enought for the daily usage. I use the ASUS laptop UX32L with 500GB HDD and 12GB RAM.

Packages that installed from dnf

  • vim
    The most common editor of the file. I added additional plugin manager called Vundle. About more detail, you can check csie@ncku(成大資工) and 凍仁筆記

  • ibus-chewing

    input chinese

  • conky & conky-manager

    I like this fancy desktop things. Plz don't judge me about this.

  • Stellarium

    If you like the star, you should download this software! This is one of the most powerful tool during the observation of the star.

  • Hexo

    I just want to share what I learn and establish an blog.

  • MPV

    If you want to watch movies or videos, you should install simplest interface software! Multiple video can be played in a pretty good performance.

  • speedtest => A great cli tool testing the internet speed from Speedtest.net.

  • Solaar => If you want to use Logitech Unifying Receiver on your linux system, this software is the best option.

  • TLP

    This can improve the power performance at laptop, but according to OMG Ubuntu, Fedora 28 will set the same settings as TLP do. I do not know if this information is correct or just a gossip.

  • [redshift]('sudo dnf install gnome-shell-extension-redshift') => save your eyes(I no longer use this at all)

  • Kodi[^1]

    A great Media center software with lots of add-ons. I do not install this but I think this will be useful if I need this someday in the future.

Software download directly from website

Internet Surfer - Google Chrome

Originaly, I use Firefox, but i need some function that firefox doesn't provide. You should know how to install this. If you don't, google it.

Picture/Photo viewer - XnViewMP

Last vertified version & date (F27; v.0.89-2, x86_64; 2018.2.28)
There are two things that should be notice when you try to install this program. First, the two linux versions of this program is protable version and deb package version. If you want to install it from dnf, RPM should be download from HERE and then choose the proper version(XnViewMP-linux.x86_64.rpm). Secondly, there is a conflict message during the installation. To solve this problem, you can directly visit THIS WEBSITE.

Steps to solve the installtion prob

  1. dnf install rpmrebuild
  2. rpmrebuild -ep XnViewMP-linux.x86_64.rpm
  3. Search for the lines containing / and /usr/bin (lines like %dir %attr(0755, root, root) "/"), and remove them. They are starting in about line 396.
  4. install the repackaged rpm.
  5. Done!

PDF Reader - Foxit

Just follow the installation steps online. However, in Fedora 29, this software may crash at the very beginning. Therefore, I use Okular instead.

Music - DeaDBeef

Probs.
Add additional tools for compelling the program:

  1. No intltoll
    dnf install intltool
  2. No package 'jansson' found
    dnf install jansson-devel
  3. Cannot play .wma?
    you should get the encoder - gstreamer-bad.
    dnf install gstreamer-plugins-bad
    Notice that you should be careful that your repo should include the " rpmfusion-nonfree "

Matlab

Adjustment of the initial system

dnf update

Cannot adjust the screen brightness from the keyboard funcfion key (F26)

[Answer Fedora-Brightness change hotkeys not working]('sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg')
I found the answer from the Internet, but I still took a note here in case.

  1. sudo gedit /etc/default/grub
  2. add acpi_osi= in GRUB_CMDLINE_LINUX= and leave a space between this parameter and others.
  3. sudo grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg

Adding repostory to dnf

gnome-tweak from https://extensions.gnome.org/

Check this out!
The only prob that I faced is installing the chrome-gnome-shell to use the installation from this website.

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dnf copr enable region51/chrome-gnome-shell
dnf install chrome-gnome-shell

Resources that you can find on the Internet

  • Fedora Magazine
    Directly subscribe it! Sometimes the magazine will provide useful tips for the Fedora user. Additionally, it will remind you to upgrade the system.
  • Fedora discussion
    You have any problems about using the Fedora? no problem at all! the community will help you to solve the questions! This project is useful for you to ask question to other users. Even the developers!

[^1]: Fedora magazine introduce this.