Difference between revisions of "Fedora/GNOME desktop"

Screenshot of f15 gnome3-shell 3.0.0 with sugar-emulator and xchat in Activities/Windows mode
note sugar Avatar and Virtualbox4.04 on left side favorites menu: ACER ASPIRE ONE Intel Atom CPU N450 @ 1.66GHz x 2 - 10" Netbook

"GNOME Shell is the defining technology of the GNOME 3 desktop user experience.
It provides core interface functions like switching to windows and launching applications.
GNOME Shell takes advantage of the capabilities of modern graphics hardware and introduces innovative user interface concepts
to provide a delightful and easy to use experience."

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Features/Gnome3

Nice way to have GNOME desktop show

yum install gnome-tweak-tool

In terminal: gnome-tweak tool

File Manager-have file manager handle the desktop [ ON]

Now when you hit the Hot Corner in to left of screen
the Shell will alternate with the gnome desktop

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Medias/images/iso/GNOME_3.i686-1.3.0-Build1.3.iso

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Medias/images/iso/GNOME_3.x86_64-1.3.0-Build1.3.iso

http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/GNOME:/Medias/images/iso/

Boots 2 ways to GNOME 3 desktop

Boots as CD on ACER ASPIRE ONE N450
Boots from dd Installer USB on ACER ASPIRE ONE N450 (see below)

Install to HD

(use whole disk)

Internal and External USB Hard Disks

VirtualBox 4.0.4 HD (Starts in fall back mode only)

Install Sugar-Desktop

Terminal #:

yum install @sugar-desktop --skip-broken sugar-emulator alacarte sugar-surf

(read is broken))

terminal alacarte

how to configure full screen

Save

"<alt> f2 r" to restart shell so changes in alacarte will be found

Education/Sugar

Browse-120 (will not start)

use surf-115 instead

Note use at least 1024 memory

Control panel/About my Computer: Fedora release 15 (Lovelock); Sugar: 0.92.1

Gnome3-shell works on Booted USB -(not fallback mode)- with: ACER ASPIRE ONE N450 (Wireless OK); EeePC 1000HE (Wireless OK); MacBook Pro i7 (no wireless only wired network) hold down "C" key on power on wait for fedora screen to appear (10-15 sec)

boot GNOME 3 fallback on XO-1 (liveusb-creator created USB)

Talk:Community/Distributions/Fedora#testing_os871_on_G1G1_XO-1

Install LibreOffice

NEW as of 04/03/2011 5 modules of LibreOffice install from Add/Remove Software

Fedora 15 GNOME 3 Ver 3.0.0 Virtual Box Appliance

download these 2 files and import them:

http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/F15-gnome3_Desktop_sugar_cl-disk1.vmdk

http://people.sugarlabs.org/Tgillard/F15-gnome3_Desktop_sugar_cl.ovf

Starts in gnome3 fallback mode as VirtualBox does not support hardware acceleration

user=sugar

password=sugaruser

root=sugarroot

Cleared of sugar identity' starts on select color by clicking on XO icon

use <== arrow to write your custom name then ==> to finish

Sugar-emulator is in Activities/Education/Sugar

enter user password for keychain (sugaruser) on time and cancel until pop-up finishes (this is a bug in keychain in f15)

Surf-115 is the browser as Browse-120 does not start (known bug)

Bootable Fedora 15 GNOME 3 CD on MacBook Pro

Click this link ^to Download Desktop (gnome3-shell)

OR download Multi Desktop DVD http://dl.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/15.RC3/Multi/Fedora-15-Multi-Desktop.iso

Burn CD/DVD

boot CD in Mac with :C: held down

Multi DVD does not work in VirtualBox

Make Installer Fedora 15 GNOME 3 USB with dd

2 GB Firefly USB disk in USB Slot

Fedora-15-Beta-i686-Live-Desktop.iso on Desktop

http://serverbeach1.fedoraproject.org/pub/alt/stage/15-Beta.TC1/Live/i686/Fedora-15-Beta-i686-Live-Desktop.iso

terminal:
$
cd /home/Desktop
su (or sudo su for ubuntu)
(password)
# dd if=Fedora-15-Beta-i686-Live-Desktop.iso of=/dev/sd(x) bs=4M
139+1 records in
139+1 records out
586153984 bytes (586 MB) copied, 94.9489 s, 6.2 MB/s

Boot from USB

log out when requested

you are in gnome3-shell when Activities appears on left top bar.

Wireless: right click icon on top bar Turn on wireless or Wired and connect; You will not see the pop-up dialog for wireless password: (BUG)

To See this Dialog: Click:Activities/applications/accessories/files and it will appear.

(If 3 entries appear on top bar; you are in the fallback mode of gnome as your graphic hardware does not support gnome3-shell)

To install from booted USB: Click Activities/Windows and the Blue Square Icon (Install to Hard Drive) on left panel.

Answer questions; Use whole disk option; select the correct hard Drive ==> click (o) for grub on it and install

When complete click on live system user hold alt key and select shutdown from menu

reboot with HD; firstboot; user; Hardware Profile (smolt);Login

Difference between revisions of "Fedora/GNOME desktop"

Revision as of 21:55, 1 July 2012

Contents

GNOME 3.2

GNOME shell