a couple of questions:

[shashi]

Hi,

After being a a linux user for 5+ years, I finally found fedora that I gave some thought to make my main system, and gradually move to fedora. I have used Mandrake, Suse, Debian, Redhat and Gentoo, and due to some reasons, I didn't consider making all those something I can run and gradually move from XP. When I tested out Fedora inside my VMware, I am considering to have it as my main playground!

Due to some reasons, my wireless adapter failed to work on the latest FC2, so I installed FC1, and I am happy, as everything seems to work fine.

I have FC1, with gnome, and
yum update | upgrade -- all up2date.

My PC has the following:
p4 2.4 ghz
80 gb disk
1gb RAM
nVidia 128Mb agp card
philips 17" flatorn



I have a couple of questions. All answers will be highly appretiated.

1.
When I click at the User ScreenShots section, i see a lot of nice screenshots, and I would love to have some of those. Now, how do I theme my gnome ?


2.
I would certainly like to upgrade my gnome desktop to support a higher resolution. My monitor supports a resolution upto 1400x1050, however i am getting a lower refresh rate. On XP, i get a 75hz rate on resolution of 1280x1024, and I would like some hints from the experts. My display card and monitor are probed properly.

3.
I installed the rpm of desklets, and when I run it, nothing comes up. I see a daemon running, so I know it's working. For a test, I added "LTmbmon, a gDesklet that display hardware information from mbmon" , and the msg was "The sensor has been installed successfully. gDesklets is now able to use it "
I restarted gnome, even the computer, and i don't see any display .. duh!

I downloaded and tried SysInfo, but what i get is "Could not load sensor: /path/sensor .. an error occoured... sensor is broken or simply not installed"

I don't think i have any other issue at the moment. This much for my first post .
Considering that i am writing this from inside a fedora gnome desktop connected to the net, I am quiet OK

Long live this community!

Shashi

[digby]

I can help with #1, but I'll have to leave 2 and 3 to someone that actually knows stuff.

Vist http://art.gnome.org for lots of gnome customization information. If is actually really easy to install new themes. The site has detailed instructions, but really all you have to do is drag the tarball(s) that you download into the theme manager.

[shashi]

Hi,

The URL says to check back later

Do you have an alternate URL for that? or, someone who had the tar.gz's uploaded somewhere ?

I hope someone will get back to me with solutons to #2 and #3.

[foolish]

art.gnome.org has been down for some time, no one seems to know when it will be back up. There are no good replacements. But there are some, try the www.freshmeat.net theme section.

[arurank]

I have installed VMWare 5.0 on FC1 kernel 2.4.22-2115.nptl

I couldn't find the kernel source in the expected directories..Even when I have downloaded and installed the source, I couldn't see any files put into those directories....

Please help

thanks
aruran

[DJ Shaji]

To 'upgrade' your display, goto Gnome Menu >> System Settings >> Display. Select your moniter as "LCD Display 1024 X 768". Then select your resolution as 1024 X 768. This works fine for me, as my moniter can go only upto 1024 X 768 max. Maybe it'll work for higher reolutions too, as in your case 1280 X 1024