WPS Office dictionaries collection
Posted: 2023-05-27 Filed under: desktop | Tags: dictionaries, dictionary, lang, language, spellcheck, WPS Office 2 CommentsI 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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.xprofile settings
Posted: 2023-01-31 Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: .bashrc, lxdm, slim, xprofile Leave a commentBefore 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 Filed under: desktop | Tags: xscreensaver, youtube 1 CommentI 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 Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: fuse, gvfs, ifuse, iPhone, libimobiledevice Leave a commentThe 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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