A few hopefully simple problems with fedora.

[ReaperLove]

Fedora is very nice it seems, however seems to lack the simplicity windows has to customize things.
Problem one I encountered was after installing the latest version of adobe flash player, my browsers would crash on any site that encounters any flash media, ex. facebook, etc. This was on FF where an error reports appears after crash, on Konqueror, it loads but seems to just glitch out and then not load anything else, weird to explain.

Hopefully there is a simple solution for this.

2. This is just something that is simple to me, I have am very used to using keyboard shortcuts to perform actions such as backspace, which is key to me in moving fast in my working instead of dragging the mouse all the way to the back button, every time.

3. I cannot seem to double click with my touchpad on my laptop anymore, which I could on my previous OS (Win, 7)

I have been exposed to using several nix type environments such as ubuntu, centOS, sun systems, usually just doing some average C++ coding, and other interactive, I know the basics of running the terminal and other commands.

My, main concern is getting my damn browsers to quit crashing, very counterproductive.

Edit: Ok, this is really pissing me off, FF crashed several times just going to these forums! also I can do yum install it says refresh packagekit

[thomps]

Hi ReaperLove,

I can answer #2. If you would like to use the backspace key in Firefox, please see this link:

http://kb.mozillazine.org/Browser.backspace_action

Basically just type about:config into Firefox's address bar and then search for the Browser.backspace_action setting.

[ReaperLove]

Thanks, mate.
Do you know who to make it work globally, such apps as file manager etc. ?

Also, it is definitely flash player crashing my browsers, I uninstalled it and no troubles, but without flash player many services/sites are rendered useless, which won't work good for me.


Windows FTW?

[thomps]

My F11 Nautilus File Browser uses backspace by default to go back a folder.

As for Flash, I just set up my laptop today and used this guide and everything is working.

http://www.mjmwired.net/resources/mj...f11.html#flash

Did you install 32 bit or 64 bit Fedora?

[ReaperLove]

32 bit Fedora, Only OS on here, clean new FF and everything, Ill check out your guide, thanks mate. I assuming this is for 64 bit Fedora ? Which Ive seen alot of problem with the flash.

[ReaperLove]

I need to add myself to the sudoers list, seems different to do in fedora? any tips?, ahhh the tardness of linux *sigh*

[stoat]

Originally Posted by ReaperLove

I need to add myself to the sudoers list, seems different to do in fedora?

Hello ReaperLove,

No, it's the same. The purist's way is with the terminal command visudo. But you can also edit /etc/sudoers with a text editor like gedit if you prefer that. On the way to the bottom of the file to add your line, you'll see some examples if you need them.

[ReaperLove]

Wtf, it says i dont have write access

Fail, forgot to do something, sorry

[stoat]

Okay, then do it this way...

su
visudo

I hope you know the vi editor. It's not like ordinary text editors and otherwise will mess up your mind within seconds. But its ways are easy to learn in a few minutes from the abundant tutorials to be had on the Internet.

P.S.: I see what you mean about trying to edit it with gedit. I know I have used gedit on /etc/sudoers in the past, but I usually use visudo so I didn't really know the current situation.

P.P.S.: FYI, I just now taught myself how to configure visudo to use gedit instead of vi. But I remain certain that was not the way that I did this in the past. I will leave it to interested people to find out how to do it with Google.

[ReaperLove]

Yes, I got sudo configured, forgot something one the first go, and it seems everything I need to configure fedora is in thomps link, kudos

[ReaperLove]

WTFFFFFF, I installed flash per say thomps link it crashes
I installed it via downloading the rpm from adobe site
and rpm -iv
wtf
this will make me go back to windows
ffs

[scottro]

Seems odd, I haven't had trouble with firefox and flash. I realize it's aggravating.
Yeah, a lot of people come to Fedora from Ubuntu, and are suprised because sudo works a little different. Fedora comes from RH, which is from the olden days--Ubuntu came out after OS X, I believe, which was one of the first to have no root and only sudo.

I wonder if it could be selinux. Do you have selinux enabled? (It is by default).

If so (and if you haven't done anything with it, it's enabled) would you try, as root

setenforce 0

and try flash again and see if it's any better?

That's the only thing I can think of off the top of my head. It's one of those things that shouldn't happen, and something I've never experienced. (Of course, I use opera most of the time, but all kidding aside, I use firefox too and haven't ever run into that.)

[RahulSundaram]

Hi,

If you trouble with Flash, read

http://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Flash