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Setting up parents' Fedora with Gnome 3
Install tweaking tool:
yum install gnome-tweak-tool
Launch it:
gnome-tweak-tool
GUI tool will open up. Go to Dektop and enable Have file manager handle the desktop
Now anything added to ~/Desktop will show up in Desktop. It's better to copy *.desktop items there.
Here is an example of placing some shortcuts:
cp /usr/share/applications/firefox.desktop ~/Desktop/
cp /usr/share/applications/skype.desktop ~/Desktop/
To add Shutdown icon on Desktop create ~/Desktop/Shutdown.desktop with following contents:
[Desktop Entry]
Name=Shutdown
Comment=Power off
Exec=/sbin/shutdown -h now
Icon=/usr/share/icons/hicolor/48x48/apps/abrt.png
Terminal=false
Type=Application
Encoding=UTF-8
Categories=Network;Application;
MimeType=x-scheme-handler/skype;
X-KDE-Protocols=skype
Name[en_US]=Shutdown
Open startup preferences GUI tool:
gnome-session-properties
Click Add to add any scripts that should be executed on startup.
Go to rpmfusion and follow setup instructions
Install xscreensaver
su
yum install xscreensaver
Launch xscreensaver from app launcher and disable screensaver
Go to Dashboard => Apps => Utilities => Settings => Privacy and disable auto screen lock
Install jhead
sudo yum install jhead
Change directory to where photos are kept
cd photos
Recursively auto rotate all photos
find . -name '*.jpg' -exec jhead -autorot {} \;