BroodWar on Slackware64
Posted: 2012-10-14 Filed under: desktop, game, system | Tags: starcraft, wine, x86_64 2 CommentsAfter making the system multilib, it’s time to compile wine. In my experience, the latest version of wine that let StarCraft work right away is 1.2.2 — let’s use this for now… Read the rest of this entry »
Slackware64 multilib
Posted: 2012-10-05 Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: compat32, multilib Leave a commentUpgraded to Slackware 14, installed almost all software needed from slackbuilds.org and now is time for some final adjustments: making the system multilib. The reason is that I like to play StarCraft for the old days’ sake :) Read the rest of this entry »
Touchpad scroll
Posted: 2012-09-02 Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: laptop, touchpad Leave a commentMy old laptop’s touchpad works but the scroll does not. I’ve been lazy to fix it, but finally peeked at Arch linux’ wiki. So, I just copied the example .conf file /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and modified it according to the wiki example: Read the rest of this entry »
Clearlooks-white classic theme
Posted: 2012-08-31 Filed under: desktop | Tags: clearlooks, GTK2 Leave a commentI really like the classic Clearlooks themes. However, sometimes I prefer to have them in white. Somehow looks cold, colder than Clearlooks Quicksilver. Anyway… Tweaking the colors is quite trivial and I don’t think this is worth uploading to OpenDesktop.org, so I put it here.
XFCE transparent desktop icons text background
Posted: 2012-08-15 Filed under: desktop | Tags: xfce 10 CommentsTo make the XFCE desktop icons text background transparent create this file in the $HOME directory: ~/.gtkrc-2.0 (or check if it already exists!) and put the following in it: Read the rest of this entry »
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