Electricsheep save directory
Posted: 2019-04-19 Filed under: desktop, media, system | Tags: electricsheep, xscreensaver Leave a commentI have Electricsheep installed and have selected it via XScreenSaver. However, my /home is on a SSD and I decided that maybe it is not a good idea to have the constantly evolving sheep stored in ~/.electricsheep. Therefore I looked for a way to specify a different directory.
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Freetype hinting mode
Posted: 2019-04-17 Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: dejavu, font, freetype, hinting, monospace Leave a commentI just upgraded to -current, which should become Slackware 15.0 at some point. I immediately noticed that hinting was awful. I tried changing the settings in Xfce, but there was no improvement. Finally, I realised that it should be set up elsewhere.
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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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