Get Focus Follows Mouse Mode in Fedora
I don’t like the conventional way of changing a window’s focus by clicking within it. Some time ago, I read about the concept of focus follows mouse, in which to change the window currently in focus, you simply point your cursor at it. Needless to say, on systems without this method configured, it can get quite frustrating, as the commands you intended for the window your cursor is over instead end up in the window last clicked within. That being said, I was dismayed when I realized that in Fedora, I could no longer set this mode simply by going...
Set Unified Inbox for Thunderbird
For anyone with multiple email accounts that they regularly check, being able to view all of the contents of every inbox at one time is a great boon, and is one of the few reasons that email clients are still more worthwhile then the web interface. To find a way to set up all of your inboxes to be viewable in a single inbox, while still being able to access each one individually when necessary, is described as “Unified” by Thunderbird. To turn on the Unified inbox: Go to View >> Folders and select Unified in the list of options...
Now on Fedora
After a day of struggles, I finally managed to installed Fedora 13, specifically the Electronics Lab Spin, on my desktop. Not that the amount of time it took me to install should deter anyone else, the trick that finally made it install was resetting my BIOS to its defaults. Why this worked is beyond me, but it strikes me as another one of those quirks that my computer has developed over the years. So, now begins the process of configuring an new operating system to work the way I like it to. But, on the bright side, the hard drives...
Fedora: Not the Best of Starts
Sadly, after all of my troubles with Gentoo, my switch to Fedora hasn’t been easy so far. Currently, I am stuck, trying to get the Live CD to allow me to install to the hard drive. The problem isn’t in the installation itself - its the fact that the Live CD is crashing at random intervals. I am currently downloading the Fedora DVD, which is not a Live medium, but if I discover that Fedora is regularly crashing on my machine, I’m likely to switch to another distro once more. Unfortunately, I have no sure way of telling what the...
The End of the War With Gentoo
Tonight, my war with Gentoo ended. Although it had proved a worthy opponent over the last few months, I finally had to destroy it, wiping it out in response to its most recent attack. Of late, Gentoo had been blockading me from my disks, preventing me from accessing any disk not already mounted once it fully booted. Thanks to how my booting process was configured, this prevented me from accessing my boot partition - and I needed update my kernel. But this was not the blow which settled the matter, not by a long shot. Upon returning home from college...