Slackalaxy is on hold
Posted: 2024-12-31 Filed under: misc 3 CommentsDear All,
I won’t be updating Slackalaxy for the foreseeable future. I thank my small audience for the interest expressed in my blog through the years. I will keep my WordPress plan and my domain, though.
best regards,
Petar
Blueman and Pulseaudio
Posted: 2024-11-30 Filed under: desktop, ports, system | Tags: blueman, bluez, pulseaudio, sbc Leave a commentI have bluetooth headphones that I connect to my PC running CRUX with Pulseaudio. However, I have experienced problems with connecting them. This is something from before, but I decided to outline the solution.
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Extracting a *.snap package
Posted: 2024-10-31 Filed under: network, ports, system | Tags: ports, skype, squash 1 CommentI still use Skype, however I was stuck at an old version. The reason was that this was the last *.deb package of the program provided by upstream. For the following versions, it is distributed as a *.snap. I really know nothing about these and I thought I was done with Skype. Well, turns out that’s not the case.
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Getting rid of *.la files once and for all
Posted: 2024-09-27 Filed under: system | Tags: CRUX, la, la files, lib 14 CommentsCRUX does not remove *.la files by default. I try to make my ports clean these up, but there are many others that still ship them. I have run into pretty silly problems because of them, so I decided to do something about it.
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WPS Office bold fonts problems
Posted: 2024-08-10 Filed under: office, ports, system | Tags: bold, freetype, WPS Office 13 CommentsI use WPS Office for my work and so far have been quite happy with it. However, I noticed that it has some problem with certain fonts, when bold. I am not sure when this started, but apparently it happened after a certain freetype update. So, I decided to look around for a solution.
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