Blueman and Pulseaudio

Posted: 2024-11-30 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, ports, system | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

I 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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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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Add new entries to Xfce Settings manager

Posted: 2024-02-18 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: , , , , , , | Leave a comment

I want to add a few more entries to my Xfce Settings manager, such as XScreenSaver, Print Settings and more. I am using the old Xfce 4.12 (GTK2), installed from my own ports on CRUX 3.7, so it’s pretty much up to me to set it up. This has always been somewhat of a mystery to me, and I finally decided to get into it. Heh…
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Tor browser won’t start

Posted: 2023-07-02 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, network, system | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

On CRUX 3.7, the Tor browser (version 12.5 at the moment) fails to start. It is not available as a port, so I just downloaded the Linux tarball from the official website, extracted it, and tried to run the program. Nothing. Therefore, I decided to find out what’s wrong and search for a fix.
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Automatic transliteration

Posted: 2023-06-04 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, office | Tags: , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

Recently, there was an interesting discussion in #slackbuilds @libera.chat with lockywolf about Cyrillic to Latin transliteration. I never name files or folders in Cyrillic (a habit left from the Windows 9* times), but others do, so it’s not a bad idea to be able to automatically achieve this.
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