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Fedora tweaks
### Install Ubuntu font ###
1. Let’s work from your Downloads folder.
cd ~/Downloads
2. Download the Ubuntu Fonts package from Ubuntu.
wget http://font.ubuntu.com/download/ubuntu-font-family-0.80.zip
3. Extra the downloaded zip file.
unzip ubuntu-font-family-0.80.zip
4. Rename the extracted directory. (Not a must)
mv ubuntu-font-family-0.80 ubuntu-font-family
5. Copy the extracted directory to the system shared fonts directory.
su -c 'cp -rv ubuntu-font-family /usr/share/fonts/'
6. Set the permissions for the directory you just moved.
su -c 'chmod 755 /usr/share/fonts/ubuntu-font-family'
7. Scan and build the fonts cache files for the new Ubuntu files.
cd /usr/share/fonts
su -c 'fc-cache ubuntu-font-family'
### Update kernel ###
yum -y update kernel
yum -y install kernel-devel kernel-headers dkms gcc gcc-c++
### Install PAE kernel ###
yum -y install kernel-PAE kernel-PAE-devel
### Enable rpmfusion repo and install codecs ###
http://rpmfusion.org/
su -c 'yum localinstall --nogpgcheck http://download1.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-stable.noarch.rpm http://download1.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-stable.noarch.rpm'
su -c 'yum -y install gstreamer-plugins-bad-free gstreamer-ffmpeg gstreamer-plugins-bad gstreamer-plugins-ugly'
### Install Cromium browser ###
## Change directory to /etc/yum.repos.d/ ##
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
## Get Chromium repo file ##
cd /etc/yum.repos.d/
wget http://repos.fedorapeople.org/repos/spot/chromium/fedora-chromium-stable.repo
yum install chromium chromium-ffmpegsumo
### Theme tweak ###
http://blog.fpmurphy.com/2011/03/customizing-the-gnome-3-shell.html
http://comments.gmane.org/gmane.comp.gnome.shell/3444
> Can the window title bar height please be reduced
Edit /usr/share/themes/Adwaita/metacity-1/metacity-theme-3.xml
Replace:
<distance name="title_vertical_pad" value="13"/>
with:
<distance name="title_vertical_pad" value="7"/>
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