Moments with Linux

Plymouth is the new graphical boot animation in place of the text messages that normally get shown corresponding to the services getting started. Fedora [Live CD] by default is supplied by only single Plymouth theme knows as 'plymouth-theme-charge', in which the boot process is animated with the Fedora Bubble getting filled up and finnaly it blasts off with white light. There are multiple other plymouth themes provided by Fedora which can be installed using YUM. [root@xbox ~]# yum list all|grep plymouth-theme plymouth-theme-charge.x86_64 0.8.0-0.2009.29.09.19.3.fc12 @updates plymouth-theme-fade-in.x86_64 0.8.0-0.2009.29.09.19.3.fc12 @updates plymouth-theme-script.x86_64 0.8.0-0.2009.29.09.19.3.fc12 @updates plymouth-theme-solar.x86_64 0.8.0-0.2009.29.09.19.3.fc12 @updates plymouth-theme-spinfinity.x86_64 0.8.0-0.2009.29.09.19.3.fc12 @updates [root@xbox ~]# All of the missing ones can be installed using...

With a aim to have a clean desktop of all of the default icons like My Computer, Sawrub's Home, Trash the Gconf Editor was looked at and here is how to do the same. - Open Gconf-Editor under Application -> System Tools -> Configuiration Editor, if the same is missing install it first. - Navigate to /apps/nautilus/desktop in the left hand side tree - Once there check the right hand side frame for options corresponding to each of the default icons present at the desktop. - In order to disable the Computer icon uncheck the flag against 'computer_icon_visible' - The computer icon will no longer be availble at the desktop. - Similar steps can be followed for other icons.