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Desktop enhancements on GNOME 3.2

April 7, 2012July 17, 2018 Ned Leave a comment

You may fed up with your default desktop interface If you don’t add new features to GNOME. Especially If you are an experienced Windows user, you probably look for similar taskbar, icons and other useful tools.

I will mention about two small tools to enhanced your desktop experience on Linux:

Gnome Tweak Tool
Tint2

You may download these tools from “Add/Remove Software“.

To use these tools after installation, look for “Advanced Settings” and “TintWizard” on “Activities > Applications” menu.

Although all tweak tools, you may want to change your desktop environment from GNOME to KDE. Here is the code you should use for that (you will need root privileges):

yum install @kde-desktop

How to enable root login on Linux?

April 5, 2012July 17, 2018 Ned Leave a comment

The root user is not allowed to login on several linux distributions by default (Especially the ones have GNOME).

To enable root login, apply these commands (It has been tried under Fedora 16. Probably It has similar procedure for other linux systems):

Open configuration file:
```
su -gedit /etc/pam.d/gdm
```
Find that line and add “#” to beginning of the line. Then save it.
```
# auth required pam_succeed_if.so user != root quiet
```
Do the same thing for /etc/pam.d/gdm-password file.

Remote Desktop Connection to Linux (Fedora 16) from Windows 7

April 3, 2012July 17, 2018 Ned 3 Comments

I’ll explain how to connect Fedora linux remotely from Windows. You have plenty of choices to do that. Two of them are here:

TightVNC Viewer
TeamViewer

First of all, you should allow other users to connect your linux desktop. On Fedora, follow this path: “Activities > Applications > Desktop Sharing“. Click to “Allow other users to view your desktop“.

You may also need to disable or set your Firewall on Fedora.

Method 1:

Download and install TightVNC Viewer. Type linux IP address and connect.

Method 2:

Download and install TeamViewer. Start TeamViewer on Linux. Write your ID and password down. Open TeamViewer on Windows. Connect to linux using ID and password that you wrote down.

P.S. TeamViewer is faster than TightVNC.

Enjoy: