Remove the black bar at top of screen, word processing

[Thomas87]

I have installed Fedora 16. How do I remove the black bar at the top of the screen so I can have more space?How do I find a word processing program in Fedora? Does Fedora have any video games? Thanks

[Fenrin]

Originally Posted by Thomas87

I have installed Fedora 16. How do I remove the black bar at the top of the screen so I can have more space?

you can't remove this bar usually. Except if there is a extension for it. You can customize gnome shell (that's probably the desktop environment you are using) via extensions: https://extensions.gnome.org
If you open this site via firefox or epiphany there will be a switch were you can install a extension (this switch doesn't appear in Opera). It's quite possible that some extensions don't work well. For me for example the CPU Temperature indication didn't work. Currently I only use System monitor and sometimes Pomodoro Timer.

But I just see that you use Fedora 16. Most extension of above site might not be compatible with Fedora 16. The extensions site is also still BETA, so pretty new.

Originally Posted by Thomas87

How do I find a word processing program in Fedora? Does Fedora have any video games? Thanks

there are several word processors available. If you want something leightweight I can recommend abiword. If you need a Microsoft Word replacement, Libre Office Writer is better.
yum install abiword libreoffice-writer
if you need excel similar applications you could install gnumeric or libreoffice-calc.

some videogames are in the software repository. Just open the Add/Remove Software application and open the category Games. Maybe you have to update your system first via "yum update" or (if you prefer a GUI) Software Update
Most of the games you find there are not very exciting though. There is nexuiz ( first-person shooter video game) and wesnoth for example. 0AD is also good game similar to "Age of Empires", but it's not in the official fedora repos. Under the games forum section is a thread with further info about this game.
If your interested in MMORPG's I can recommend Regnum Online.

For multimedia codecs I recommend that you install the rpmfusion repo:

yum --nogpgcheck install http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm