A fonts configuration file dedicated to a single program

Posted: 2024-07-31 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: , , | 2 Comments

How do you make a program use its own, customized fonts settings? Let’s say, I want to start Viber with fonts configuration that is different from what’s system-wide. The reason is that Viber seems to use an inbuilt font, for which my global hinting settings do not play nice. I also wanted to specify the Noto Emoji (Black and White) font to be used in Viber (my port includes it in the package). Here’s how it’s done. I’m on CRUX 3.7, but the strategy is the same for any Linux distribution.
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Font blocker for Chrome

Posted: 2024-06-30 | Author: | Filed under: network | Tags: , , , , | Leave a comment

I’ve been playing with my fonts settings for a while and I am close to getting nuts. I have almost everything the way I want it, however, some web-pages insist on using their own fonts. Twitter with it’s Chirp font and GitLab with their own font family come to mind. Well, I don’t like it, do I tried to find a solution.
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Twelve years for Slackalaxy

Posted: 2024-05-31 | Author: | Filed under: misc | Leave a comment

It has been 12 years… This is post 279.

A lot has changed, a lot has not.
This cakeday, I just forgot.

VirtualBox on a CRUX host

Posted: 2024-05-12 | Author: | Filed under: system | Tags: , | Leave a comment

For virtualization, I use VirtualBox, installed from the All distributions binary package provided by upstream (*.run). Since CRUX is a bit of an esoteric distribution, startup stuff and building of kernel modules does not happen automatically. Therefore, calling certain scripts should be done manually.
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Make Grub find a Windows partition

Posted: 2024-04-07 | Author: | Filed under: system | Tags: , , , , | Leave a comment

I have Linux installed on sda and Windows 10 installed on sdb. Both disks are EFI and I want to make Grub add Windows to the boot menu.
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