GNOME has traditionally always been one to prefer the benefits of a clean Desktop.
But I'm not one for traditions.
There's an GNOME extention available called Desktop Icons NG (DIN)1.
What I needed to do was:
I was missing my printer. Turns out I could just add it in the Printer Settings in Linux.
I don't know why it was suddenly missing, though.
Perhaps it happened during an upgrade of Fedora Core.
I know I installed all the required drivers some time ago.
Oh well. I thought it was something serious. It's nice to be disappointed.
Just some information in case I need to reinstall the drivers sometime in the future.
The following is in my log:
I found some information at [1].
Lsb is required, or it starts complaining when trying to install the rpm packages.
This works if you have attached the printer via USB cable.
You can access CUPS via a webbrowser at http://localhost:631.
As administrator ask for "Add printer".
The list shows EPSON ET-3750 Series (EPSON ET-3750 Series).
There's an article [1] here. I thought I'd bookmark it, for easy reference.
This is a followup of the blogpost Java Alternatives in Fedora Core.
The instructions in the blogpost also hold for Java 13.
Unfortunately, there was a snag with Maven, so I thought I'd document it here.
Maven stubbornly remained firmly pointing to java 8, whatever alternative I picked in my Fedora Core.
Well, trying to compile a java application with version 13 in the pom.xml, is NOT going to work when your Maven is using openjdk 8.
Really no surprise there.
You get:
It turns out I really need to set JAVA_HOME?
Editing .bashrc to add the following:
Now I get:
All is as it should be, and we are merrily on our way.
So I went to Devoxx in Belgium, and I took my labtop along. Of course, it's in a Cinema, so there's no electrical sockets in the rooms.
I was looking to prolong the use of my labtop, so I was looking for extend the battery life.
There were several good articles about it (see below in the references.)
I choose to install the Xfce Desktop Environment, and I was pleasantly surprised my labtop managed to hold together for a lot longer.
Fedora has some notes on how to install it, it's basically running the package manager properly, and it's done.
It can be selected from the dropdown menu on the login screen.
I shall put the command line down here, so I do not forget:
Of course my IntelliJ automatically detects the different Java versions installed on the system, when I tell it to add a new version of Java.
Nice.
In due time, when I was little, I got started with the Redhat Linux distribution. It was a great step in the direction of getting a Linux operating system up and running with very little tweaking. Of course, I still had to compile the kernel, and configure XWindows and all sorts of other things.
Eventually, Fedora came into my life, and I have been using it ever since.
It's my Operating System of Choice both at home and at work.
Just a reminder of mine on how to remove the Splash screen from Fedora Core to make it more obvious if something is going wrong.
Edit /etc/default/grub and replace
with
After that, we need to run grub2-mkconfig:
Yes, that's right, I'm still using BIOS instead of UEFI. One of these days (years, decades), I'm going to have to upgrade my machine.
I have installed the package dnf-automatic, to allow for automatic updates to be installed.
There's only one configuration file available in /etc/dnf/automatic.conf.
I have set it to:
It shows that the timer is active:
