Hi,
I've installed Fedora 19 and so far is good.
Let me introduce myself - I use linuxes since many years, first was RedHad 4r5 on Amiga 4000 with PowerPC CPU. Last few years I'm looking for successor of Mandriva which will be not developed anymore, and which was my primary system used for work. So I need a system which works fine (plese note I wrote "few years I'm looking for...") and has all needed tools (disk management, for example) and some working "fireworks" for ordinary users, like compiz-fusion, emerald etc, and is flexible at the same moment (allows me to choose Gnome, or KDE etc). I've tried some Mandriva forks like Mageia 1,2 and 3, and ROSA2012, but they don't work as supposed. I use Ubuntu as well, but I'm tired with GRUB2 maintenance changes every time Ubuntu gets higher revision (for example, methods for maintaining customized GRUB2 change, so GRUB2 bootscreen looks different every time I upgrade to newer version).
So now - I try F19.
My hardware is RAID-0 system with SSD drive which I don't use for linuxes, but some GRUBs (and tools like Ubuntu's boot-repair) write their MBR there, so now I've got a mess with startup - which means two different bootmenus: one on RAID volume and one on SSD. Both do a proper startup, anyway, except RAID one which is generic-GRUB-based, which means (so far) I cannot start Fedora 19 from there.
So question number one is: is it possible to boot Fedora 19 with generic GRUB (not GRUB2) ? Have you got any clues how to modify menu.lst to make it working ? Ubuntu uses GRUB2, too (like F19) and I'm able to boot it through generic GRUB anyway, so probably it's possible. SOrry for lack of menu.lst file, I'm on WIndows now, so once I boot linux I will attach it.
Question number two: I've installed compiz & emerald, but if I only launch compiz, everything (I mean all the objects like top bar) disappears, just windows (if any launched before) stay ? How to make it working properly ? There's an option in compiz to keep compatibility with something that name I forgot, but ticking this box won't change anything. Any clues ?
Thanks for reading my fast message. More details later, hopefully :)
Cheers
I've installed Fedora 19 and so far is good.
Let me introduce myself - I use linuxes since many years, first was RedHad 4r5 on Amiga 4000 with PowerPC CPU. Last few years I'm looking for successor of Mandriva which will be not developed anymore, and which was my primary system used for work. So I need a system which works fine (plese note I wrote "few years I'm looking for...") and has all needed tools (disk management, for example) and some working "fireworks" for ordinary users, like compiz-fusion, emerald etc, and is flexible at the same moment (allows me to choose Gnome, or KDE etc). I've tried some Mandriva forks like Mageia 1,2 and 3, and ROSA2012, but they don't work as supposed. I use Ubuntu as well, but I'm tired with GRUB2 maintenance changes every time Ubuntu gets higher revision (for example, methods for maintaining customized GRUB2 change, so GRUB2 bootscreen looks different every time I upgrade to newer version).
So now - I try F19.
My hardware is RAID-0 system with SSD drive which I don't use for linuxes, but some GRUBs (and tools like Ubuntu's boot-repair) write their MBR there, so now I've got a mess with startup - which means two different bootmenus: one on RAID volume and one on SSD. Both do a proper startup, anyway, except RAID one which is generic-GRUB-based, which means (so far) I cannot start Fedora 19 from there.
So question number one is: is it possible to boot Fedora 19 with generic GRUB (not GRUB2) ? Have you got any clues how to modify menu.lst to make it working ? Ubuntu uses GRUB2, too (like F19) and I'm able to boot it through generic GRUB anyway, so probably it's possible. SOrry for lack of menu.lst file, I'm on WIndows now, so once I boot linux I will attach it.
Question number two: I've installed compiz & emerald, but if I only launch compiz, everything (I mean all the objects like top bar) disappears, just windows (if any launched before) stay ? How to make it working properly ? There's an option in compiz to keep compatibility with something that name I forgot, but ticking this box won't change anything. Any clues ?
Thanks for reading my fast message. More details later, hopefully :)
Cheers