Wednesday, March 25, 2009

Fedora 10: Firefox Starts up in Offline Mode

The problem: upon strting Firefox it goes in offline mode even if the network is enabled and working. It's really unconvenient to un-check Work offline from the File menu every time especially if you start up many windows and tabs.
The quick solution is to stop and disable the Network manager application from the System --> Administration --> Services window.
Unless you need it... in that case I can't help you right now...

Friday, March 06, 2009

gedit Color Schemes

If you upgrade to Fedora 10 right now, the new version of gedit doesn't explicitly allow you to set up a custom color scheme. They say in the future there will be an editor for that.
In the meantime what you can do is:
  1. > cd /usr/share/gtksourceview-2.0/styles/
  2. Copy one of the available schemes to a new one and edit that file to suit your needs.
  3. Once you restart gedit, the new color scheme will be available under Edit -> Preferences -> Font & Colors