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Signal Private Messenger for Centos 7

Posted on March 29, 2018 by SEEIMarch 29, 2018

I found an RPM here for Centos 7 for Signal Private Messenger Create a file named /etc/yum.repos.d/luminoso-Signal-Desktop.repo and put the following in the file [luminoso-Signal-Desktop] name=Copr repo for Signal-Desktop owned by luminoso baseurl=https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/luminoso/Signal-Desktop/epel-7-$basearch/ type=rpm-md skip_if_unavailable=True gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://copr-be.cloud.fedoraproject.org/results/luminoso/Signal-Desktop/pubkey.gpg repo_gpgcheck=0 enabled=1 enabled_metadata=1 … Continue reading →

Packages needed for Centos 7 to connect via PPTP

Posted on January 11, 2018 by SEEIJanuary 11, 2018

yum -y install NetworkManager-l2tp-gnome ppp pptp pptp-setup

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Gnome 3 icons are huge!

Posted on September 23, 2017 by SEEISeptember 27, 2017

I updated my desktop machine to Centos 7.4 and my desktop icons were suddenly huge! After a bit of plugging around I found the fix Find the application “dconf Editor” under Applications – System Tools * Drill down to org … Continue reading →

Battery and power status on your CentOS Linux laptop

Posted on September 5, 2017 by SEEISeptember 5, 2017

The upower cli tool will get you a large amount of information about power and batteries in your system. Install upower using the command yum -y install upower To enumerate the devices upower can get information about on your system … Continue reading →

Access the Centos 7 Virtual Machine Manager Console Without Using the Root Password

Posted on September 4, 2017 by SEEISeptember 4, 2017

Create a file named /etc/polkit-1/localauthority/50-local.d/50-org.libvirt-group-access.pkla and put the following lines in it [libvirt group Management Access] Identity=unix-group:libvirt Action=org.libvirt.unix.manage ResultAny=yes ResultInactive=yes ResultActive=yes Create a group name libvirt (if it does not already exist) groupadd libvirt Put each user who needs access … Continue reading →

Gnome 3 Tricks for Centos 7

Posted on April 19, 2017 by SEEIAugust 31, 2017

I started using Gnome 3 on Centos 7 because the bluetooth support was not complete in Mate. I discovered several items to make it work better. yum install gnome-shell-browser-plugin This will allow you to easily install the gnome extensions from … Continue reading →

Change default port number for Telnet in Cenots 7

Posted on July 23, 2017 by SEEIJuly 23, 2017

First – install telnet on Centos 7 yum -y install telnet-server Edit the file /usr/lib/systemd/system/telnet.socket The section [Socket] has by default [Socket] ListenStream=23 Change 23 to the desired port number. Then systemctl enable telnet.socket systemctl start telnet.socket Firewalld for Telnet … Continue reading →

Turn on numlock when logging on Centos 7

Posted on June 16, 2017 by SEEIJune 16, 2017

I want my numlock to be turned on when I turn on my laptop but my laptop has no option to turn on the numlock in the bios. I installed numlockx from here and installed it with the command yum install … Continue reading →

Installing Google Chrome on Centos 7

Posted on October 12, 2016 by SEEIJune 16, 2017

Centos 7 Enable yum repository by logging in as root at a bash prompt, then cut/copy/paste the following: cat << EOF > /etc/yum.repos.d/google-chrome.repo [google-chrome] name=google-chrome – $basearch baseurl=http://dl.google.com/linux/chrome/rpm/stable/$basearch enabled=1 gpgcheck=1 gpgkey=https://dl-ssl.google.com/linux/linux_signing_key.pub EOF You will see the following [root@mycomputer ~]# cat … Continue reading →

Mysql authentication on Apache 2.4

Posted on May 24, 2017 by SEEIMay 24, 2017

I discovered that mod_auth_mysql has been replaced with mod_auth_dbd on Centos 7 and Apache 2.4. The following is a quick reference to setting mod_auth_dbd up <VirtualHost 10.10.10.10:80> # tell DBD you are using mysql DBDriver mysql # how to access … Continue reading →