NiTeFlY Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 I have succesfully installed Fedora and all is well in the world EXCEPT ... the "Control Centre" Icon seems to be a link to the prefs folder. Let me explain ; I click Control Centre from the "start" (exuse my windows lingo, not used to Linux yet) menu, and it opens the Prefs folder, in there is another icon for Control Centre but it has a green arrow on the top left, clicking this just opens up another Prefs window. Is this right, as I remember using Control Panel on a friends machine. Also, I was once showed a util called LINUXCONF , Does this come with Fedora as I cant find it ? If so, where is it located or do I need to download it manualy ? Thanks in advance for the help ..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted January 2, 2004 Veteran Share Posted January 2, 2004 I am a bit lost on the "Control Center" talk... :( However, on the "linuxconf", I think I can help. Fedora is a test-bed for RedHat, and therefore does things the RedHat way. That means a lot of the configuration items have been replaced by RedHat-specific configurators. Open a shell and type in redhat- (include the hyphen right after "redhat", and then press your TAB key. About 30-40 items should be displayed that you can use to config the desired part of your system.... Good Luck! Mark Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
neowin_hipster Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 I had problems with fedora being very buggy for, only worse distro ever was corel linux. That might be a problem but.... Did you make sure you installed all the admin packages. Are there any kde admin or gnome admin utilities you can use in the meanwhile. KDE's are fairly straight forward. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Danrarbc Posted January 2, 2004 Share Posted January 2, 2004 Was your friend in KDE at the time? And are you using Gnome now? I'm pretty sure the control center you're thinking of was from KDE. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiTeFlY Posted January 2, 2004 Author Share Posted January 2, 2004 Yea it was KDE. Like I said though, the icon is just a link to the prefs folder. Where would the KDE Control Centre be located so I can run it manualy ? Thanks again ... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
markwolfe Veteran Posted January 2, 2004 Veteran Share Posted January 2, 2004 Yea it was KDE. Like I said though, the icon is just a link to the prefs folder. Where would the KDE Control Centre be located so I can run it manualy ? Thanks again ... On my Fedora Core 1 install: [mark@mjcomputer mark]$ whereis kcontrol kcontrol: /usr/bin/kcontrol /usr/lib/kcontrol.la /usr/lib/kcontrol.so Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
NiTeFlY Posted January 3, 2004 Author Share Posted January 3, 2004 Thank you very much mark , much apresiated. And a happy new year to all on neowin BTW :) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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