http://fedora.missingbox.co.nz/

http://www.howtoforge.com/the-perfect-desktop-fedora-16-i686-gnome

http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-adobe-flash-player-10-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/

http://www.sklav.com/fedora-15-multimedia-howto

su -

yum update -y

yum install wget vim-enhanced smartmontools whois thunderbird esound-tools gimp keepassx remmina-* @office gconf-editor

See Firefox Internet Browser.

Show date and use the Desktop as a folder, as a regular user:

gsettings set org.gnome.shell.clock show-date true
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background show-desktop-icons true
gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.background draw-background true

Use Thunderbird and Lightning for default calendar client:

gsettings set org.gnome.desktop.default-applications.office.calendar exec thunderbird

In Firefox, set Thunderbird as the default mail client:

Edit → Preferences → Applications → mailto → url-handlers → mailto → use other → /usr/bin/thunderbird

Use Thunderbird for default Desktop (Gnome) mail client:

System Tools → Configuration Editor → desktop → gnome → url-handlers → mailto

Change command to thunderbird %s.

Show minimize/maximize/close button layout:

System Tools → Configuration Editor → desktop → gnome → shell → windows

To add Minimize and Maximize buttons, find button_layout and enter the following:

:minimize,maximize,close

If you want Ubuntu-like (top-left) controls, enter the following instead:

close,minimize,maximize:

Log out and log back in to activate changes.

To enable tapping, edit /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf.

Add following to Section “InputClass”:

    Option "TapButton1" "1"
    Option “TapButton2" "2"
    Option “TapButton3" "3"

To enable touchpad features:

System Tools → System Settings → Mouse & Touchpad → Touchpad

• Enable mouse clicks with touchpad
• Disable touchpad while typing

Edit ~/.fonts.conf:

<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE fontconfig SYSTEM "fonts.dtd">
<fontconfig>
        <match target="font">
                <edit name="autohint" mode="assign">
                        <bool>true</bool>
                </edit>
        </match>
</fontconfig>

rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm
rpm -ivh http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm
yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly xine-lib-extras-nonfree gstreamer-ffmpeg

32-bit:

rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-i386-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

64-bit:

rpm -ivh http://linuxdownload.adobe.com/adobe-release/adobe-release-x86_64-1.0-1.noarch.rpm
rpm --import /etc/pki/rpm-gpg/RPM-GPG-KEY-adobe-linux

Then install (32 or 64-bit):

yum check-update
yum install flash-plugin nspluginwrapper alsa-plugins-pulseaudio libcurl

64-bit:

rpm -ivh http://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/fedora/nautilus-dropbox-0.7.1-1.fedora.x86_64.rpm

32-bit:

rpm -ivh http://www.dropbox.com/download?dl=packages/fedora/nautilus-dropbox-0.7.1-1.fedora.i386.rpm

See Dropbox.

Set up the repository:

cat >> /etc/yum.repos.d/skype.repo << EOF

[skype]
name=Skype Repository
baseurl=http://download.skype.com/linux/repos/fedora/updates/i586
enable=1
gpgcheck=0
gpgkey=http://www.skype.com/products/skype/linux/rpm-public-key.asc

EOF

and install:

yum install skype

See Dropbox for simple, synchronized, additional fonts.

yum -y install rpm-build cabextract ttmkfdir
rpm -ivh http://easylinux.info/uploads/msttcorefonts-1.3-4.noarch.rpm --nodeps

yum localinstall -y http://repo.missingbox.co.nz/repo/fedora/missingbox-1-1.noarch.rpm --nogpgcheck
yum install HandBrake-gui libdvdcss

64-bit:

rpm -ivh http://dl.atrpms.net/f16-x86_64/atrpms/stable/libdvdcss2-1.2.11-6.fc16.x86_64.rpm

32-bit:

rpm -ivh http://dl.atrpms.net/f16-i386/atrpms/stable/libdvdcss2-1.2.11-6.fc16.i686.rpm

Win32 Codecs:

cd /tmp/
wget http://www.mplayerhq.hu/MPlayer/releases/codecs/all-20071007.tar.bz2
tar xfvj all-20071007.tar.bz2
mkdir /usr/lib/codecs/
cp all-20071007/* /usr/lib/codecs/
ln -s /usr/lib/codecs/ /usr/lib/win32

If you're not a programmer, you probably want to use the Java Runtime Edition (JRE) instead of the JDK.

You also probably want to verify the architecture of your system and match it (32-bit vs. 64-bit).

http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-sun-oracle-java-jdk-jre-6-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/

http://www.if-not-true-then-false.com/2010/install-sun-oracle-java-jdk-jre-7-on-fedora-centos-red-hat-rhel/

java -version
alternatives --config java

http://java.com/en/download/testjava.jsp

rpm -ivh http://olea.org/paquetes-rpm/olea-repo-release-0.0.3-1olea.noarch.rpm
yum install kompozer