Tag: fedora

  • Headless encrypted boot with Fedora Server

    Here is a recipe for using encrypted boot on a Fedora Server system that does not have a monitor or keyboard attached during normal use. I’ll use Fedora 21 Server, and will have a dedicated encrypted volume group for data but leave the main operating system volume group unencrypted. The encryption key will be stored…

  • Typing breaks in GNOME

    For quite a while now I’ve used the drwright application to configure typing breaks. Once every so often, the desktop would refuse keyboard input and tell me to go and walk around for a few minutes instead. This helps to prevent RSI and other problems. Since Fedora 19, though, drwright is no longer usable. No…

  • Session printing

    There has been a discussion on the Fedora devel mailing list recently about user session printing: why that might be useful, and in what circumstances it makes sense. Where I can see it can make some sense to have printing entirely in the user session is for PDF printing to smart services hosted elsewhere: e.g.…

  • Printing Test Day

    It’s that time again.  Fedora 16’s Printing Test Day is tomorrow, Thursday October 6th.  Come along and help make printing work better on Fedora! The Test Day page has instructions on what you need and how to test.

  • Firewall adjustments

    I’ve just released version 1.2.1 of system-config-printer.  One of the changes is that it now uses the D-Bus API of the Fedora firewall tool to actually make firewall adjustments that it needs.