On Sun, 2006-11-12 at 22:34 +0000, Amadeus W.M. wrote: > I finally got a chance to install FC6 on my home pc (after an install on a > laptop and a pc at work), and I did a much more thorough installation at > home. > > I have to say, this looks like one of the best and most complete FC's so > far. I liked a lot the fact that I could add livna during the > installation, so all ffmpeg-based multimedia, mp3 stuff and other eye > candy and certain tools and libraries that I need were ready to go upon the > first boot. > > On my onboard intel graphics chip, compiz was straightforward (unlike the > other two nvidia machines, which had to wait for the latest 9629 nvidia > driver). That's outstanding. > > Some comments and quirks though. > > I use the mouse very little, doing just about everything from the > keyboard. In metacity I have shortcuts for opening various > programs (particularly a shell, a browser and pan). Compiz does not > remember my shortcuts for the shell and for pan. There are no entries for > them under System->Preferences->Keyboard Shortcuts. Does anybody know how > to set them? I did look in gconf-editor under > apps->metacity->global-keybindings, etc. and the one for pan is there, but > not working under compiz. > > > During installation, if I wanted to configure the ethernet card with a > static IP address, if IPv6 support is checked, I have to enter an IPv6 > address. I know nothing about IPv6 addresses. What should I enter there? > This is not an FC bug, it's my own ignorance. I got around it by disabling > IPv6 support for eth0. > > What is the fetish about making it as hard as possible to use a shell in > FC? Not only is it not in the keyboard shortcuts menu, but even to add a > launcher to it, or open it from the menu takes some searching. To me, the > shell is the nexus of the universe, and I assume for other people too, so > it should be readily available, or easy to be made available by those who > wish to do so. Yeah, I'm talking about gnome. > I don't understand why, but the terminal selection was taken off the desktop right click menu with FC5 You can install nautilus-open-terminal to add it back to that menu (both FC5 and FC6) > > Would it be possible to unselect every SELinux package at install time, so > I don't have to worry about it at all? If I set SELinux on disabled, it > reboots, relabels the file system, etc. but I keep getting policy updates > via yum, even though SELinux is disabled. I am going to uninstall all > selinux rpms that I can find, but could this be an option during the > install? > selinux is installed, therefor a candidate for updates. > > Window fading in compiz is super cool and useful. >
