Playing DOOM on Linux
Posted: 2019-02-19 Filed under: game | Tags: doom, doom2, iwad, plutonia, prboom, prboom-plus, tnt, wad Leave a commentI was in a nostalgic mood and bought Ultimate Doom and Doom II + Final Doom from GOG. There was even a discount in the beginning of January. I searched SBo for a way to play the game and it seems to offer quite a lot of options. After some reading and tries, I decided that the best option for me is prboom-plus. So, here’s what I did:
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Archaeopteryx configuration 2
Posted: 2019-01-29 Filed under: Academic | Tags: Archaeopteryx, config, phylogenetic tree, phylogeny, _aptx_configuration_file.txt Leave a commentCouple of years ago, I wrote about the configuration file of Archaeopteryx, a phylogenetic tree analysis program. I have set it to use native ui, as described in my old post. However, some things have changed meanwhile, so in order to have a white background, additional tweaks are required.
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Vivaldi HTML5 Proprietary Media
Posted: 2018-12-08 Filed under: media, network | Tags: codec, ffmpeg, vivaldi Leave a commentI have been playing with Vivaldi browser recently. It is available from SBo, where the recommended dependencies are pepperflash-plugin, ffmpeg and vivaldi-codecs-ffmpeg-extra. However, I still seemed to experience problems with some websites content. Maybe I did something wrong…
So, what to do?
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Disable GTK3 window management
Posted: 2018-11-04 Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: .bashrc, gtk3, gtk3-nocsd, lxdm, nocsd, profile, window, xfce Leave a commentSome GTK3 programs, such as file-roller and Evince, use their own custom title bar with minimize, maximize and close buttons. Under Xfce, I have experienced hiccups with Evince when maximized: it would refuse to unmaximize the window (or rather, does not remember the dimensions of the unmaximized window) and behaves kinda “sticky” to desktop borders. In another case, if I have the compositor turned off, the window edges are not smoothened and look ugly.
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QT5 screen scale factor
Posted: 2018-10-21 Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: 230, 6450, 7450, 8450, ati, calibre, qt5, R5, radeon, vlc Leave a commentIn my previous post, I described the problem of having too large interface buttons, search fields, scroll bars, etc of Calibre (compiled against QT5). I found a fix of Calibre, however, it seems this problem occurs for other QT5 programs. For example, I installed AlienBob’s VLC package, version 3.0.4 on Slackware64 14.2 and noticed the same issue. So, a more general solution should be found.
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