Switching from gnome to kde in fedora

If you are running gnome and want to switch to kde you can install kde-desktop and switch it before logging in to your machine.

Just do,
#yum install @kde-desktop -y

While logging in to just choose kde in session.

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Dowloading source RPM in fedora

Some time we need source rpm to build custom rpm. You can download source rpm via yum in fedora.
To download source rpm of firefox in tmp folder.
#cd /tmp
#yum install yum-utils -y
#yumdownloader --enablerepo=rpmfusion-free-rawhide --source firefox

#ls
firefox-3.6.4-1.fc13.src.rpm

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VNC Server on Fedora 13

We have covered installation of Real VNC server on CentOS. Now we are going to setup VNC server on Fedora 13.

Note: commands run by root user are denoted by #
          commands run by normal user are denoted by $
Installing VNC Server:
#yum install -y tigervnc tigervnc-server
 
Configuring VNC Server for user vidyadhar:
#echo 'VNCSERVERS="1:vidyadhar"' >> /etc/sysconfig/vncservers
 
Before starting vncserver as a service, let's create a vnc password with vncpasswd command.
[vidyadhar@vidyadhar ~]$vncpasswd
Password:
Verify:
 
Now let's start vncserver as a service.
#service vncserver start
 
So how do I connect to vncserver? Use vncviewer command in vnc client as following.
[vidyadhar@vidyadhar ~]$ vncviewer localhost:1