WPS Office dictionaries collection

Posted: 2023-05-27 | Author: | Filed under: desktop | Tags: , , , , , | 2 Comments

I have just submitted wps-office-dicts to SBo. The script packages spell check dictionaries for WPS Office. The language files themselves are the LibreOffice Dictionaries project, but adapted for WPS Office, following the instructions of this old post of mine. However, it got me thinking that not only Slackware users may want to have these easy to install, therefore I made a wps-office-dicts repo at my GitHub.
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Gnome legacy icon theme

Posted: 2023-03-31 | Author: | Filed under: desktop | Tags: , , , , , , | Leave a comment

When I started with Linux, back in 2005, the desktop environment that came with the distro was Gnome 2.6. I was very impressed with its icon theme, and won’t lie to say that I fell in love with it. At Gnome 2.16, the next generation, Tango-like theme was introduced. I do like it, I also like Tango very much. However, I made an attempt to revive the pre-2.16 theme.
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.xprofile settings

Posted: 2023-01-31 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

Before discovering Slim I usually just used lxdm, which is nice and feature rich. However, login managers like lxdm (and I hear this applies to GDM, LightDM, and more…) do not obey any settings I put in, for example, ~/.xinitrc. Therefore, ~/.xprofile seems to be the solution for such graphical login.
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Stop XScreenSaver when fullscreen is playing

Posted: 2022-05-07 | Author: | Filed under: desktop | Tags: , | 1 Comment

I want to disable XScreenSaver when playing YouTube videos. I looked for any browser plugins, but did not find anything suitable. Sure, I can always turn it off before I watch something in the browser, but come on. Therefore I decided to look for a more “global” solution.
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Mounting an iPhone on CRUX

Posted: 2022-04-24 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: , , , , | Leave a comment

The old iPhone saga continues. I use my phone quite “lightly”, but every couple of years I think it’s a good idea to clean the photos and videos. Should be easy enough right? Heh… I naively plugged it in and nothing happened. Well, the libimobiledevice project is iPhone’s friend on Linux. So, i decided to prepare a few ports.
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