FC5 rocks

Here are few tips and tricks with Fedora Core 5 installation to make it really rocking. Default FC5 disto is good for a startup, but slowly you can feel the demand for more apps

There are lots of blogs on setting up & customising FC5 for you & me, but here are my experiances – which taught me many a thing, tips & tricks

Data DVD Writing in Linux, Fedora Core 5

If your DVD is recognized by FC5, as is the case with most DVDRW’s you
can use following commands for compiling and burning a DVD ROM

Format a DVD-RW, not required for DVD-R 
    dvd-rw-format /dev/cdrw-sr0
    OR
    cdrecord dev=/dev/cdrw-sr0 formattype=full|force

Burning an already compiled ISO image
    cdrecord -v -dev=/dev/cdrw-sr0 driveopts=burnfree -sao -eject image.iso
    OR
    growisfs -dvd-compat -Z /dev/cdrw-sr0 image.iso

Compiling ISO and writing on the fly
    growisfs -V “Disk Volume Label” -Z /dev/cdrw-sr0 -R -J -graft-points -pathspecs ./=./path/to/files
    # here multiple path sepcs can be given or put in a file and given as an argument

If you hate command prompts, use the following
    In Gnome, nautilus->Go->CD/DVD Creator, which is basically a front end to growisofs tool
    nautilus-cd-burner is the actual program which does this.

Minimise any application to system tray !!!

I was just wondering if that was possible. Minimize Any Application to the System Tray gave me the lead to AllTray
and rpm for my FC5 could be found at alltray-0.69-1.fc5.i386.rpm

Now modify any launcher in your menu or desktop to prefix alltray before the command name!! It will start minimised to systray in GNOME, KDE, XFCE and more

Following command can be used to create quickstart tray icon for OO.org in Linux (This feature is natively supported in MS Windows). This command will preload OO.org and hide using alltray. The tray icon can be used to quickly launch any of the suite components.

alltray -m “Calc:oocalc” -m “Draw:oodraw” -m “Impress:ooimpress” -m “Math:oomath” -m “Writer:oowriter” -m “Base:oobase” -m “Term:gnome-terminal” ooffice -minimized

Its the coolest appelt I ever found, open source really rocks

XMMS and SELinux in FC5

Some libraries are to be made SELIUNX complaint

eg: with xmms-mp3 pluggin, following did the trick

chcon -R -t texrel_shlib_t /usr/lib/xmms/

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