OK now! Have upgraded to Fedora 15 and GNOME 3!!!
Well it's not so bad, though definitely different. One good thing I've always been looking for is a clean desktop space -- this has been achieved. A very different look and feel of the desktop has its positive sides, too. Never liked GNOME, but now I feel better about it.
Not to say that there are no problems running GNOME 3 in Fedora 15. I'll share here just solutions to the problems I haven't found yet in Internet.
1. Changing your desktop background. In Fedora default installation you can change it OK via System Settings/Background and ... the next login you'll have the same ugly blue stripes default background. Sorry, it is "ugly" from my viewpoint which I don't pretend to be absolute truth...
Anyway, how do I change my background so that it KEEPS that way????
ANSWER: after you choose a background of your choice you open your terminal application and run
which opens a GUI showing startup programs. In there you need to DISABLE an application called
"wallpapoz-autostart". Not sure what it's meant to do, but so far it does bring back the ugly background I wanted to get rid of.
PS: Funny thing! I just finished a fresh install of Fedora 15 to another computer and tried to apply the above given council and, alas, there was NO SUCH TOOL as `gnome-session-settings` there!
Well thankfully, however, I didn't need it this time as automatic background switcher wasn't enabled by default, so once I changed my background it remained there forever :).
This change, however, was annoying in a different way: there is now NO utility to control startup programs in GNOME 3 shell, at least in Fedora 15 (by startup programs I don't mean those residing in the /etc/init.d directory, of course).
But as I'm quite enthusiastic about this brand new GNOME 3 shell I'm even using it now instead of KDE, which I've been using all the time since I first installed linux some 6-7 years ago. So, let's have some patience and wait a little bit until they adjust this new desktop to the "Linux ideology", according to which you can at least change your colors etc. For as of this writing you can't do any such thing in GNOME 3 the usual way you do it in other Desktop environments (without resorting to manual edit of the code).
Well it's not so bad, though definitely different. One good thing I've always been looking for is a clean desktop space -- this has been achieved. A very different look and feel of the desktop has its positive sides, too. Never liked GNOME, but now I feel better about it.
Not to say that there are no problems running GNOME 3 in Fedora 15. I'll share here just solutions to the problems I haven't found yet in Internet.
1. Changing your desktop background. In Fedora default installation you can change it OK via System Settings/Background and ... the next login you'll have the same ugly blue stripes default background. Sorry, it is "ugly" from my viewpoint which I don't pretend to be absolute truth...
Anyway, how do I change my background so that it KEEPS that way????
ANSWER: after you choose a background of your choice you open your terminal application and run
Code:
$gnome-session-settings
"wallpapoz-autostart". Not sure what it's meant to do, but so far it does bring back the ugly background I wanted to get rid of.
PS: Funny thing! I just finished a fresh install of Fedora 15 to another computer and tried to apply the above given council and, alas, there was NO SUCH TOOL as `gnome-session-settings` there!
Well thankfully, however, I didn't need it this time as automatic background switcher wasn't enabled by default, so once I changed my background it remained there forever :).
This change, however, was annoying in a different way: there is now NO utility to control startup programs in GNOME 3 shell, at least in Fedora 15 (by startup programs I don't mean those residing in the /etc/init.d directory, of course).
But as I'm quite enthusiastic about this brand new GNOME 3 shell I'm even using it now instead of KDE, which I've been using all the time since I first installed linux some 6-7 years ago. So, let's have some patience and wait a little bit until they adjust this new desktop to the "Linux ideology", according to which you can at least change your colors etc. For as of this writing you can't do any such thing in GNOME 3 the usual way you do it in other Desktop environments (without resorting to manual edit of the code).
