Hiding any file or folder in Thunar
Posted: 2015-06-04 Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: amplifx, clc sequence viewer, cytoscape, folders, hide, home, pspp, thunar, xfce 1 CommentUsually, programs store their configuration files in a hidden folder that resides within the user’s $HOME. Such folders start with a dot (.), and are therefore regarded as hidden by the file manager. There are however, programs that do not follow this convention and instead create a regular folder in $HOME to store their settings and system files. Its location cannot be changed, which can be particularly annoying. Read the rest of this entry »
Removing WINE file associations
Posted: 2015-04-18 Filed under: desktop, misc, system | Tags: file association, wine Leave a commentI keep WINE installed for the sole purpose of playing StarCraft – BroodWar if I happen to be in a nostalgic mood. Annoyingly, WINE tends to “steal” a lot of the file associations from other programs. Read the rest of this entry »
Cyrillic in the XMMS playlist
Posted: 2015-04-04 Filed under: desktop, media | Tags: cp1251, cyrillic, encoding, font, terminus, xmms Leave a commentIn the XMMS playlist, the default font for GTK1 does not display correctly Cyrillic file names. A commonly used encoding for Cyrillic text is CP1251. Read the rest of this entry »
Video driver in the initrd.gz
Posted: 2015-03-19 Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: ati, firmware, initrd, kernel, radeon, RAM, reboot, resolution Leave a commentI have an ATI Radeon HD 6450 card. Sometimes upon boot, just when the console should switch to the screen native resolution, it apparently fails to do so. The screen goes black and the computer restarts. Read the rest of this entry »
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