My Fedora 11 Adventures: Part V
Fedora 11 has been treating me pretty well now that I don't have Firefox installed. I am considering the head of manually installing Firefox 3.0.11 in my home directory to see if that fares any better. Another goal I have for today is to change some of the settings for the login screen. So far I haven't been able to figure out how to access that one.
The Login Manager
Surfing a few sites this morning has suggested that I'm not the only one struggling to rid myself of the stock Fedora login manager preferences. One person did suggest a trick for changing the background image, though. I tried it out, but I'm not so sure it worked as planned--I got a ton of SELinux notifications, and I'm not prepared to log out and back in at this time.
Well that's cool. I was just playing around in the terminal looking for any commands that might help me change the settings for the login screen. One command, gdmflexiserver, seemed to lock my screen and show the login screen again. Sure enough, the background I had chosen before was there instead of the nasty default image. Logging in as myself at this screen unlocked my session, and I had everything just as I left it.
Installing Firefox
I tried to download the .tar.bz2 archive of Firefox straight from their website, but that is only i686. My computer didn't know how to execute the program. Time to look into alternatives.
After a while I decided to try to compile my own Firefox. That didn't go very well--nearly an hour into the compile, it farted out complaining about floats or something. I don't have the time to dedicate to making Firefox work.