Monday, 22 July 2019

Post-install Fedora configuration

After installing Fedora, there are a few steps, to adjust the system to yourself. It will make the system unique and better fitted to the user.

Hiding GRUB2 menu

By default, if Fedora is installed alongside Windows, after booting a machine, systems menu is shown. To hide it, You should edit /etc/default/grub file and add the following lines:
GRUB_TIMEOUT=0  # Time (in seconds) of showing systems menu
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT=1  # Time (in seconds) of waiting for <shift> key to show systems menu
GRUB_HIDDEN_TIMEOUT_QUIET=true  # Do not show systems menu
After saving the file, You should update GRUB2's configuration by using one of the commands:
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/grub2/grub.cfg  # For BIOS systems
or
grub2-mkconfig -o /boot/efi/EFI/fedora/grub.cfg  # For EFI systems

When booting system, You can use <Esc> to access the boot menu or <shift> to show GRUB2's systems menu.

Installing decorations theme and icons theme


Decorations themes and icons themes can be found on gnome look. To use themes stored in the user's home folder, install user themes extension. When using Firefox, the gnome extensions webpage will guide You on how to enable managing GNOME extensions from it. After installing user themes extension, download themes:
  • decorations and shell themes to ~/.themes
  • icon themes to ~/.icons
Themes can be changes in GNOME Tweaks app, which can be installed with the command:
dnf install gnome-tweaks
After starting the Tweaks app, go to Appearance category and select downloaded themes.

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