LibreOffice in KDE4

Posted: 2013-01-23 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

I prefer to make LibreOffice behave as a GTK+ application in KDE4. Somehow, it looks and feels better this way. To do this, I simply added the following line in /usr/bin/libreoffice (in the beginning, before the rest of the variables): Read the rest of this entry »

KDE 4 and intel video

Posted: 2013-01-11 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: , | Leave a comment

Got a ThinkPad and decided to give a full featured and fancy KDE 4 a try. Very nice deskop environment, indeed. However every now and then, the computer would just lock up. Freeze. Nothing but resetting it from the power button would help. Read the rest of this entry »

Custom XFCE menu

Posted: 2012-11-15 | Author: | Filed under: desktop | Tags: , | 3 Comments

After tweaking the icon size of the XFCE menu, let’s customize it a bit more. Use as a starting point the default: /etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu and copy it to a custom location, e.g. ~/.config/xfce4/xfce-applications-custom.menu. Read the rest of this entry »

Bigger menu icons in XFCE

Posted: 2012-11-11 | Author: | Filed under: desktop | Tags: , , | 7 Comments

One of the many things I loved about GNOME 2 was the “foot” menu. Its bigger icons made it look somehow more user friendly and uncluttered. At least to me :)

Since I switched to XFCE, I have been wondering if the same could be achieved with the XFCE menu. Finally, I came across this discussion. Read the rest of this entry »

Tumbler: disabling ODF and PDF

Posted: 2012-10-30 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: , , | 2 Comments

Since XFCE 4.10, Thunar does not display thumbnails for some PDF files. There was a short discussion on LQ started by me, but I did not find a solution. Anyway, it annoys me, so I would prefer to have no thumbnails for PDF files rather than that. Also, I do not like to have thumbnails for ODF files. So, what to do? Read the rest of this entry »

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