Make Fedora faster by disabling unecessary services

You might have noticed Fedora OS delays while start up and logout. It happens because every time the OS boots up it need to start all the services that is turned on. Services means you are providing access to some hardware resource. For example Bluetooth is a service and if you enable the service you can use application to do task. Fedora OS provides many customer as well enterprise level services. If you are normal user then you can disable enterprise level services. I admit I don't know what enterprise services used for but after disabling it I saw some improvements in my laptop.

How to disable services:

You can disable services directly by writing some commands in Terminal. To make it easy you can download a app called system-config-services. To install it open Terminal and type the below command.

yum install system-conifg-serives

Installation should be done as root user. You can find this app with name Services in Activities. Below is the screenshot of my application.

Services to disable:

Following services are safe to disable.

• auditd
• avahi-daemon
• haldaemon
• lvm2-monitor
• netfs
• rsyslog
• smolt
• udev-post  

How to kill a process in Fedora?

To kill or end a process we need to user task manager. There are several task manager for Fedora and I have already mentioned about System Monitor which is default task manager comes out of the box in the latest Fedora OS. Before this System Monitor came into the picture, there was another software which did the task manager operation - Htop. It is a simple text based software. With this you can view the process as well as kill the process.

Install Htop:

Open terminal and write following command as root user.

yum install htop -y

How it works:

To run this application, open Terminal and type htop. Use up arrow or down arrow to select the process. To kill a process press F9. 

How to get GPU or Graphics Card information in Fedora

There are few software to get details about RAM memory, graphics card (GPU) or any other hardware in your laptop running Fedora OS. Particularly user wants to know their system hardware when they want to check their graphics card. I hope there will be some commands to find the configuration but many won't understand it. So here I have going to give a application to view configuration in graphical mode.

Application Name - Hardinfo

How to install:

Installation should be done in Terminal. Open the terminal and write below command.

yum install hardinfo -y

Then the software will be installed and available in your applications.

Source - https://ask.fedoraproject.org/en/question/7401/how-to-know-system-hardware-settings/

Live cricket score notification Fedora

Cricket app for Fedora: It is good news for cricket fans using Fedora OS. Now you can get cricket notification right in your desktop. I will say this app is not up to our expectation but happy to see one such app. Usually getting app for Fedora is not a easy thing. This cricket app encourages to use Fedora OS a lot.

Install Cricket app:

This app can be downloaded from below link.

Cricket app download link - https://github.com/PrasannaVenkadesh/GillyCricket

The name of this app is GillyCricket. You will find a file named as Fedora_install.sh. Download the file. To install the file run the below command in Terminal.

sh /Downloads/fedora_install.sh

To run the app in graphical interface use the following command. 

Gilly &

Unistall the app:

To uninstall the app give the following command in terminal.

removeGilly

For more detail visit official page.

App to open RAR file in Fedora

Fedora by default don't support .rar format. Whether it may be GNOME, XFCE or KDE it won't support .rar format. Archive app that I have in my Fedora GNOME desktop is Xachiever. You need to install a plugin kind of software called unrar, to open .rar file.

App name - Unrar
App size - 115 KB
Installing time - less than a minute

Issue: How to open RAR file

Solution:

This software can be installed by two easy steps. Just enter the two commands in Terminal. 

1. Adding RPMfusion repository: 

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

2. Installing UNRAR software:

yum -y install unrar

After following above steps you will be able to open RAR files. Sometimes you may have added RPMfusion repository before for installing some other software. In that case, after giving the first command you will get error like 'nothing to do'. If it is the case, directly enter the second command.



Now you can open any RAR file with whatever achieve software you have. Unrar is not a stand-alone software and you don't get any icon/shortcut to launch that app.

Torrent app for Fedora

Torrent Fedora: There are numerous Torrent client for Fedora. The apps that works in Ubuntu works in Fedora as well. I tried many torrent app but I prefer only two app among all. The reason for selecting this two app is its download speed is more than upload speed. Other torrent app keep on updloading instead of downloading. This two app can download files with just one or two seeds. Okay, let's see what is the name of that two apps.

1. Deluge
2. KGet

Deluge:

I will say this is the best of all. First I tried Transmission torrent client and faced numerous issue. So I searched for other clients for Linux. I found Deluge as my best torrent companion. It can works in any desktop environment like  GNOME, KDE, XFCE and others. It GNU licensed software and so it is available for free.

Installing Deluge:
Enter the below command to install Deluge torrent client.

yum install deluge

Enter this command in Terminal.

KGet:
This is another torrent client which I like most. This client is available by default in KDE desktop. For other shells like GNOME, XFCE ect you need install manually.

Installing KGet:

yum install kget

Transfer files from Fedora to Windows Phone via Bluetooth

If you are using Windows Phone and computer is running Fedora operating system you can transfer files via Bluetooth. Transferring files through Bluetooth is simple instead of using USB connection. However to connect Windows Phone in computer running Fedora OS using USB, you need to install GVFS-MTP package. This is time consuming task. Let's see how to use transfer files via Bluetooth from Fedora to Windows Phone and Windows Phone to Fedora.

Step 1: Turn on Bluetooth in Windows Phone and Fedora.
Step 2: Start the Bluetooth service in PC. Open terminal and type the below command

service bluetooth start

Step 3: Connect to the PC through Windows Phone. Touch on the computer name in Bluetooth device list in your phone. It will generate a private key. Then a pop up appears in your PC, click on 'Allow'.

Step 4: You can open the Bluetooth settings and check the whether Windows Phone is connected or not.

Step 5: To transfer file, click on the Bluetooth icon and you can see 'Send Files' under Windows Phone (my phone name). Clicking on send files will open file explorer. Choose the files you want to send. You can select multiple files at a time.