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If you can't get sound working at this point, don't worry; you may just need access to some of the advanced mixer controls, which you can experiment with later (see Lab 2.6, "Configuring Sound ").

Click Finish. Congratulations, Fedora is installed and ready to use!

1.3.2. How Does It Work?

yum, pup, and pirut

Tools for adding and removing software (see Chapter 5).

kudzu

A tool that checks the system at boot time to see if any hardware has been added or removed, and adjusts the system configuration appropriately.

system-config- component

Graphical tools to configure individual system components.

Because the hard disk is in an unknown state and the CD is not writable during the installation session, Anaconda uses a ramdisk an area of memory configured to act like a disk driveas the filesystem while it is running. After interacting with you to get the configuration details, Anaconda partitions and formats the hard disks and mounts them. It then starts installing RPM packages containing the selected software. Finally, it reboots the system.

Each time the system boots, the init script /etc/rc.d/init.d/firstboot is executed. If the file /etc/sysconfig/firstboot does not exist, the Python script /usr/sbin/firstboot is executed to ask the initial configuration questions.

Once the configuration details have been saved, the firstboot script exits and the normal boot sequence continues.

1.3.3. What About...

1.3.3.1. ...rerunning the firstboot process to reset the system configuration?

If you are not using a bootloader password, then any user with physical access to your computer can reset the password of any account on the system using the reconfig boot argument.

1.3.3.2. ...getting help if I encounter problems during (or after) installation?

1.3.4. Where Can I Learn More?

The Anaconda web page: http://fedora.redhat.com/projects/anaconda-installer/

The manpages for kudzu and yum

The Fedora Forum: http://fedoraforum.org

Chapter 2. Using Fedora on Your Desktop

Where possible, the labs in this book include instructions for performing tasks using both the graphical user interface and the command line. If you are not familiar with entering Linux commands, see Lab 4.1, "Using the Command Line."

2.1. Getting Started Using the Fedora Graphical User Interfaces

the panel and select "Add to Panel," and then select the applet or monitor from the list displayed.

2.1.1.3. Managing windows

Figure 2-4. Dasher window, showing title bar and window controls

These are the basic controls:

Window border

When you position the mouse cursor over any edge or corner of a resizable window, it will change to a double-ended arrow. Click and drag to resize the window.

Title bar

Clicking and dragging the title bar will move the window. Double-clicking the title bar can be configured to maximize the window to fill the entire screen (the default for GNOME, similar to Windows) or to roll up the window into the title bar like a window shade (the default for KDE, similar to Mac OS 9).

Window menu

Clicking on the icon on the left side of the titlebar will bring up the window menu. You can also view the window menu by right-clicking anywhere on the window border.

The window menu contains options for placing the window on top of all other windows; maximizing, minimizing, and closing the window; and placing the window on a specific workspace/desktop or making it appear on all workspaces.

Minimize, maximize, and close icons

There are three icons on the right side of the titlebar. Clicking the leftmost one will minimize the window (you can then access through the window list); clicking the middle one will maximize or unmaximize the window, and clicking on the rightmost one will close the window.

You can also minimize a window by clicking on its entry in the window list.

Table 2-1 lists a number of useful keyboard shortcuts available for window management.

Table 2-1. Keyboard shortcuts for window management

2.1.4. Where Can I Learn More?

The KDE Project: http://kde.org

The freedesktop.org project: http://freedesktop.org

X.org, developers of the X Window System: http://x.org

Information about many different window managers and desktop environments (both current and old): http://xwinman.org/

2.2. Customizing GNOME

2.2.1. How Do I Do That?

This lab looks at the GNOME settings most commonly used to customize the desktop.

Most GNOME settings take effect immediately; you do not need to click an Apply button for a change to take effect

2.2.1.1. Customizing the desktop appearance using themes

Three types of component themes are used on the desktop:

Application (or control) themes

Configure the appearance of the controls: elements used by applications to build the graphical user interface, such as buttons, sliders, scrollbars, and text-entry fields.