Screen capture for Linux
Stumbled across a tool that is much better than “screenshot” or “PrintScreen” for capturing the screen or components of the screen under linux. Pssst.. Pass it on. http://shutter-project.org/
Access to libvirt via Virt-Manager (non-root)
Access to anything using root passwords is a Bad Thing(tm), so Policy-Kit comes to the rescue. Having never used Policy-Kit (polkit-d), it was always something disabled in order to limit the number of extraneous processes running on a server/hypervisor system. However, in this case, it comes in handy. Create: /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/50-libvirt-remote-access.pkla [libvirt Management Access] Identity=unix-group:libvirt Action=org.libvirt.unix.manage
Fedora and funky network device names
You may have noticed that fresh installations of Fedora 15 have network device named of “em1” or “p1n1” rather than the easy to remember “eth” nomenclature. It seems that those in the Linux world wish to take a step backwards, forgetting all that was gained with the simplified naming convention. Dial back time about 15