Old Chrome look
Posted: 2018-09-19 Filed under: desktop, network | Tags: google chrome, look, old style Leave a commentRecently, the look of Google Chrome has been redesigned. I do not really like it, as it takes more space than before, which matters on my 1366×768 laptop screen. Also, I do hate changes for the sake of the change itself. I googled a bit and came upon this solution.
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Mounting an iPhone
Posted: 2018-05-07 Filed under: desktop, media, SlackBuilds, system | Tags: documents, ifuse, iPhone, libimobiledevice, mount, phone, photos Leave a commentDue to several reasons that I will not discuss here, I decided my next phone to be an iPhone SE. Of course, I naively expected that when I plug it in my computer, it will behave. Well, it doesn’t. The phone has iOS 11 and in Slackware 14.2 the system sees it, but there’s no way to mount it. In Slackware -current I can access my photos only. Well, I googled a bit and here’s what I did on -current.
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Prompt colours
Posted: 2018-01-12 Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: .bashrc, .bash_profile, .dir_colors, PS1 Leave a commentNow, I have set up my .bashrc and .bash_profile and I have colourful output in my terminal. I decided to customize things a just little bit more…
As a start, I copied the default colour scheme /etc/DIR_COLORS as ~/.dir_colors. I edited to my liking, for example, I do not want coloured files to be in bold.
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Chrome broken fonts
Posted: 2017-08-22 Filed under: desktop, network | Tags: chromium, font, google chrome, hinting, rendering Leave a commentI recently upgraded to Google Chrome 60.0.3112, using the script in Slackware 14.2 /extra. I immediatelly noticed a problem with fonts rendering, which affected not only web sites, but the browser itself. The same problem exists in Alien Bob’s Chromium package, version 60.3112.78.
Very annoying:
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