Five alternative to Firefox web browsers for Fedora

Browsers for Fedora - Firefox is the default browser for Fedora GNOME environment. Firefox browser disappoints in some cases while browsing web page with rich contents. It is usually slow and if you feel that you need get rid of this browser and need some alternates you can refer this article and download the browser you like.

Epiphany
This browser is released officially by GNOME. The user interface is very simple and  easy to use. This browser was released decades before and its know for its simplicity. The  user interface is very simple like Google Chrome. This browser was available before Google Chrome launch. It has many features and  it will be a perfect alternative to Firefox and Google Chrome.

Luakit
It is a special browser designed for developers. It is very-light browser and you should develop the interface. If you are fond of programming then this suites you. Luakit can be customized by configuring   rc.lua file. This browser is developed using  Lua language. If you are interested in designing your own browser then go for Luakit.

Midori
Midori is a light weight browser yet it has many features. It consistently release updates and you can enjoy the fresh version. This browser is quick and loads page faster than we expect.

Elinks
It is text browser and it does not it's own interface, it launches inside the Terminal. It displays only text that are available in the webpage. You cannot  view images or ad or any java script  in this browser. It is best for reading rather than watching videos or images.

Opera
Opera is popular browser and is available for Fedora too. It is closed-source and has many wonderful feature. It has more features than a browser and should give a try to this browser. Features in this browser includes IRC client, email client, Usenet client, and web server for file sharing and media streaming.

How to install themes for Fedora

Fedora latest versions is improved so much in their look and design. Latest versions use GNOME 3 as the desktop environment. It is designed as hybrid interface, means it can be used for touch, laptop and desktop. You can download tons of themes from the below website.

http://gnome-look.org

How to install:
Themes should be installed  in  ~/.themes directory. Sometime this directory won't be available, in that case create that directory by using following command.
# mkdir ~/.themes

There are few themes that are available in Fedora repository. To search and install them use the following command.
# yum search gtk3-theme

or

# yum search gnome-shell-theme

This will show you list of themes available in the repository. You can install any of them using yum command. Below is one example.

Suppose if you are trying to install “zukitwo” theme then use following command.

#yum insttall zukitwo

You can install them only as a “root” user. So don't forget to switch to root.

Applying theme:
The above steps is to install the theme. But to apply them you need to use gnome-tweak-tool. You can install n number of theme and it can be manage them using gnome-tweak-tool .

gnome-tweak-tool

How to check system configuration in Fedora 19?

System configuration in Fedora - System configuration such as  RAM, processor, hard disk etc can be checked either through command or using graphical mode. Most of the time we need to check system configuration when we are about to install any new software or application. Let me give you the details about checking system configuratoin in Fedora 19.

Graphical Mode:
1. Click on your Name on the right side of the top panel.
2. Then click on settings.
3. Now a new window open, in 'System' colomn you will find a gear icon named as 'Details' just single click on it. You'll find you system information as below image.

Command Mode:
Using command mode you can get almost all the details including manufacturer name of the wi-fi card, Bluetooth card etc. So if you are about to install wi-fi card or something else you need to know the manufacturer name to install the exact driver. So do check that you can use following commands.

Command: lspci 

Command: lspci -v

command: cat /proc/cpuinfo

command: cat /proc/meminfo

command: lsusb

How to config data card in Fedora

You cannot install mobile broadband or data cards like Aircel, Airtel 4G, Tata Photon Plus, mBlaze ZTE and other modems in Fedora by default. This modem will have Windows executable file and you can install in Windows operating system. As there are wide range of Linux version these modems won't have installer by default. But you no need to worry, Linux is a powerful tool and all you need to do is install a package.

Issue - Unable to config wireless modem, data card, 3G, 4G, mobile broadband etc in Fedora

Solution
Fedora detects your USB modem as a storage device. It can't differentiate without driver package. So without required package it detects all USB device as ZeroCD. So we need to install package to detect modem. To fix the issue just install usbmodeswitch package.

Required package to fix the issue - usbmodeswitch

There are several repositories which provide this package. Just search and download the package and double click on downloaded file to install. Then reboot the computer to detect any data card.

Software to delete cookies, internet history, temporary files and cache for Fedora

Are you searching a software that do all the functions of CCleaner. CCleaner is a software for Windows operating system used to clean temporary files, junk files, cookies, history present in your computer. It is one of the way of optimizing the computer to keep it fast and smart. However Linux operating system doesn't need this software, but this kind of software will be very handy to clean browser history and all junk files. This makes your system to process smoother. It is weird to get tune up and optimization software for Linux distros. Usually there is no need for optimization and tune up for Fedora, to fasten the operating system we need to tweak some settings, usually start up apps. However, this optimization or tune up apps will free some disk space in your hard drive.Here is the software that is going to keep your system clean, BleachBit.

BleachBit  
This software is added to Fedora repository years back. So to install, use following command.

#yum install bleachbit

If not working, just download and extract from the link below.







BleachBit Download - http://bleachbit.sourceforge.net/download/linux

Sound recorder app for Fedora 19

Sound recorder will be very useful to add in your presentation (ppt) or to take note or to record your voice (singing). By default installation of Fedora, sound recorder application will not be available. However you can download and install it from Fedora repository. It is easy to install and can done by single step.

Issue: How to install sound recorder in Fedora

Solution:
Open the terminal and enter the following command.
# yum install gnome-media-apps
Note: Install as “root “ user. Don’t include ‘#’ while typing command

After installation restart your computer and sound recorder works fine. If you don’t restart you will get following error.

Error: “Could not capture using the 'CD Quality, Lossless' audio profile. Please verify its settings. You may be missing the necessary plugins.”
Restart and try using it.

Reference: I found it by running following command.
# yum provides gnome-sound-recorder

Other options
You can also install Audacity by entering following command.
#yum install audacity

Unable to delete in Fedora 19

Delete Fedora 19

In Fedora 19, we have nautilus 3.6 pre-installed. In this version to delete a file we need to press either “ctrl + delete” or “shift + delete”. By pressing “ctrl + delete” key combination your files will be moved to trash. If you press “shift + delete” key combination your files will be permanently removed  from the computer.

Delete using command mode:

If you are command user, then you sometime face issues when you just type ‘rm’ command for remove a file. To override this, use following command.

#rm –rf

Using this you can remove any files without any error.

How to set delete key to delete file instead of ctrl + delete:

You can also set “delete” key delete file instead of “ctrl + delete” just by editing a configuration file located in your home directory. To do so click on the below link

http://fedora19issues.blogspot.in/2013/10/how-to-set-delete-key-to-delete-file.html

How to set delete key to delete file instead of ctrl + delete in Fedora 19

Delete key Fedora
Fedora 19 has nautilus 3.6 in default. Here to delete a file/folder we use “ctrl + delete” key combination. It is annoying for us to use this key combination. Fortunately you can assign delete key to do the task. To do so you need to just we need do a simple modification in home directory. After the modification, you can delete files just by pressing “delete” key instead of “ctrl + delete”.

Solution
1. Open terminal and type the following command.
# vi ~/.config/nautilus/accels

2. Find the below line
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/DirViewActions/Trash" "<Primary>Delete")

3. Replace the above line with
(gtk_accel_path "<Actions>/DirViewActions/Trash" "Delete")

4. Now reboot your computer
#reboot

After you complete this step, you will be able to delete the file just by pressing “delete” key instead of “ctrl + delete”.

YouTube downloader application for Fedora 19

YouTube download Fedora

We find tons of videos in YouTube. However we like download and have it in our PC for offline entertainment. Fortunately Fedora 19 has some software through which one can download YouTube videos. One can also download it through online applet. Here I will provide both methods to keep YouTube video to your storage drive.

Fedora YouTube downloader software:

I found three applications that are available in Fedora repos. They are:

1. clive
2. cclive
3. youtube-dl

Open your Terminal and use the following command.

# yum install clive cclive youtube-dl

The above mentioned are command line downloader. Below is the example for downloading YouTube video using ‘cclive’. 

GUI YouTube downloader:

If you are not convenient using command line downloaders like clive, cclive and youtube-dll you can use ‘JDownloader’. In JDownloader you can convert the video to desired format like flv or mp4.

Downloading via online

You can find tons of plug-ins for Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome. There are several websites like http://www.converter-video-editor.com/guide/download-youtube-videos.html, http://www.clipconverter.cc/, www.hdconvert.com and http://saveyoutube.com.

In this sites you can just copy and paste the link of the YouTube video you need.

Install 32 bit application in 64 bit Fedora 19

There are some application or development tools that are still available only in 32 bit. Those files either can’t be installed in Fedora or compile to get the desired output. For those cases we need 32 bit libraries. In other Linux distros ia32-libs is used. Here I have given some libraries and packages that is used in Fedora 19 for installing 32 bit application.

Solution:
Open terminal and login as root user.
1. Login as root user
#su

2. Enter the below command to install packages needed to support 32 bit in 64 bit Fedora OS.

# yum -y install --skip-broken glibc.i686 arts.i686 audiofile.i686 bzip2-libs.i686 cairo.i686 cyrus-sasl-lib.i686 dbus-libs.i686 directfb.i686 esound-libs.i686 fltk.i686 freeglut.i686 gtk2.i686 hal-libs.i686 imlib.i686 lcms-libs.i686 lesstif.i686 libacl.i686 libao.i686 libattr.i686 libcap.i686 libdrm.i686 libexif.i686 libgnomecanvas.i686 libICE.i686 libieee1284.i686 libsigc++20.i686 libSM.i686 libtool-ltdl.i686 libusb.i686 libwmf.i686 libwmf-lite.i686 libX11.i686 libXau.i686 libXaw.i686 libXcomposite.i686 libXdamage.i686 libXdmcp.i686 libXext.i686 libXfixes.i686 libxkbfile.i686 libxml2.i686 libXmu.i686 libXp.i686 libXpm.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 libxslt.i686 libXt.i686 libXtst.i686 libXv.i686 libXxf86vm.i686 lzo.i686 mesa-libGL.i686 mesa-libGLU.i686 nas-libs.i686 nss_ldap.i686 cdk.i686 openldap.i686 pam.i686 popt.i686 pulseaudio-libs.i686 sane-backends-libs-gphoto2.i686 sane-backends-libs.i686 SDL.i686 svgalib.i686 unixODBC.i686 zlib.i686 compat-expat1.i686 compat-libstdc++-33.i686 openal-soft.i686 alsa-oss-libs.i686 redhat-lsb.i686 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686 alsa-plugins-oss.i686 alsa-lib.i686 nspluginwrapper.i686 libXv.i686 libXScrnSaver.i686 qt.i686 qt-x11.i686 pulseaudio-libs.i686 pulseaudio-libs-glib2.i686 alsa-plugins-pulseaudio.i686

Note: Don't copy '#' in the Terminal

Videos not playing in Fedora 19

Play videos in Fedora 19 – Movie player is the default video player in Fedora 19. While trying to play video in Fedora 19 you get the following error message.

Error message:
Movie Player requires additional plugins to decode this file:
The following plugins are required:
MPEG-1 Layer 3 ( MP3 ) decoder XVID MPEG-4 decoder

You get this error message if you try to play any video format such as avi, mkv, vob etc. Only format the video player support by default is webm.

Solution:
1. First install RPMFusion repository by running following command in the terminal as root.
#su
Enter the password for root user.
#'yum install --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm

2. After successfully completing the RPM Fusion repository installation, enter the following command to install codecs for Fedora 19 to play movies, videos and songs.

For GNOME shell:
# yum install gstreamer{1,}-{ffmpeg,plugins-{good,ugly,bad{,-free,-nonfree}}} ffmpeg

For KDE desktop environment:
 # yum install xine-lib-extras xine-lib-extras-freeworld k3b-extras-freeworld
 
Note: Text after ‘#’ should be entered in Terminal.

YUM groupinstall error in Fedora 19

YUM Fedora 19 - We use Yum command to install a software in Fedora. While installing we may face several errors. Below is the error which I faced while using groupinstall command.

Issue 
 I tried to install "LXDE" desktop environment. So my command will be
 [root@localhost ~]# yum -y groupinstall lxde

I got the following error message.
Loaded plugins: langpacks, refresh-packagekit
There is no installed groups file.
Error: Cannot retrieve metalink for repository: fedora/19/x86_64. Please verify its path and try again

Solution
In your terminal, run the following commands.
#yum clean all
#yum grouplist hidden
Perform these commands as super user (i.e) root user.

Touchpad tweaks in Fedora 19 for any laptops

Touchpad Fedora 19 – In Windows OS we install drivers for touch-pad inorder to add features like scrolling, multi-touch and tap/double tap. Fedora  19 has this feature by  default. Touch-pad functionality is not based on the laptop, it depends on the driver/software. So you can add this multi-touch or scrolling option in any laptop. Below is steps to tweak the touch pad in Fedora 19.

Tweak touch pad Fedora 19:
GNOME is the default version which you get in the  Fedora official website. In this version you cannot use tap/double tap feature to select/open a file or folder. To do so, open Settings and then choose Mouse and Touchpad option. A new window open which shows several option for touchpad. There select “Tap touchpad to click”. Once done, check for the same.

Still confused watch below video