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Quick test of the Fedora 8 KDE LiveCD

Hi all, here is a small “report” on my findings after having tried Fedora 8 KDE LiveCD for half an hour on my Dell Latitude X1. See my previous notes on earlier Fedora versions here.

Please note that the KDE LiveCD is not exactly the same as a full Fedora 8 installation.

* Widescreen works out of the box at 1280×768
* Compiz works - just enable it from the settings menu
* Bluetooth support was not installed on the livecd, but a quick ‘yum install kdebluetooth’ and then ‘kbluetooth’ as a normal user worked just fine. I was able to pair with my phone.
* In the Control Center, I chose “Dell Latitude series laptop” as the keyboard layout, but the windows key does not work. Neither does the volume special keys. So the usual tweaking seems to be necessary. If you know how I can collect info about the keyboard and submit a “bugreport”, pleas let me know.
* nm-applet (frontend for NetworkManager) works just fine, I am currently connected to på WPA2 encrypted wireless network. I will have to try KNetworkManager soon.

When I get the time, I will create a new Fedora 8 page.

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3 Responses to “Quick test of the Fedora 8 KDE LiveCD”

  1. Martin Says:
    November 10th, 2007 at 18:21:18

    Uhm, ok:

    $ cat /usr/bin/knetworkmanager

    #!/bin/sh
    exec /usr/bin/nm-applet

  2. Martin Says:
    November 10th, 2007 at 21:06:49

    The win-key can be fixed with setxkbmap -option 'win:meta'.

  3. Martin Says:
    November 13th, 2007 at 17:40:30

    Hm, the windows-key can be fixed with “setxkbmap -option 'altwin:super_win'” instead it seems. And FYI, the post install process kicked in on the first boot after I put selinux=0 in grub.conf.

    I managed to get a bit nicer mouse cursor theme by doing a “yum install bluecurve-icon-theme“, phew.

    Now - does anyone have an idea on how I can make GNOME applications look a bit less last century without installing GNOME and changing the theme from within?

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