FC6

[Jeff Vian]

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.
>