OpenOffice word autocompletion

Posted: 2015-07-22 | Author: | Filed under: office | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

I am currently using OpenOffice.org 4.1.1, installed from SBo and want to remove the word autocompletion behaviour. I googled a bit and found a solution here. Read the rest of this entry »

Quake III demo

Posted: 2015-07-05 | Author: | Filed under: game | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

I liked to play the Quake III demo, occasionally. I have never played the full game, but since I am not really into 3D shooters, the demo is quite enough. Years ago, its Linux version installed and ran without problems. Then, at some point sound stopped working, then the game could not be extracted and nowadays I wouldn’t even try to install it on modern systems. Read the rest of this entry »

XFCE semi-transparent desktop icons text background

Posted: 2015-07-01 | Author: | Filed under: desktop | Tags: , | 1 Comment

To make the XFCE desktop icons text background semi-transparent (as opposed to fully transparent) create this file in the $HOME directory: ~/.gtkrc-2.0 and put the following in it: Read the rest of this entry »