Touchpad tap

Posted: 2022-02-27 | Author: slackalaxy | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: laptop, synaptics, tap, touchpad | Leave a comment

My ThinkPad x230 is running CRUX, with packages installed from my own custom repository. Things seem to work just fine, however, the touchpad did not behave nicely out-of-the-box, as was the case with Slackware. Tapping did not work, I had to press instead.
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GNOME Colors 48×48

Posted: 2021-08-19 | Author: slackalaxy | Filed under: desktop | Tags: gdk-pixbuf, gnome-colors, gnome-icon-theme, icons, librsvg, pango, pangox, pango_attr_insert_hyphens_new, svg, tango, undefined symbol | 1 Comment

My favourite icon theme is the GNOME Colors. I’ve been using it on CRUX 3.6.1 with Xfce 4.12 for over a month and I noticed some issues. Certain programs would not display some 48×48 sized icons. So, I tried to find a solution.
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Xfce multilevel menu

Posted: 2021-08-08 | Author: slackalaxy | Filed under: desktop | Tags: menu, multilevel, submenu, xfce | Leave a comment

I want to organize my Xfce menus better. For example, I have a lot of entries in the “Education” category, to the point that the menu became scrollable in order to accommodate them all. What I want to do is group some of the menu entries into separate sub-menus that still reside under “Education”. I did not find clear instructions, so what I will describe is based on inspecting the sub-menus created by Wine, as well as trial and error.
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GTK2-only Xfce 4.12 desktop

Posted: 2021-06-30 | Author: slackalaxy | Filed under: desktop, slackbuilds, system | Tags: GTK2, xfce | 1 Comment

I want to keep using a GTK2-based desktop environment on the upcoming Slackware 15.0 release. Long story short, I decided to stay with Xfce 4.12 and created my own repository of SlackBuild scripts that aim to build a GTK2-only desktop on -current. I have been running it for over a month on Slackware -current from 17 May 2021. Here’s my announcement in LQ. Of course, this comes with no warranty, so use at your own risk.
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TeamViewer won’t start

Posted: 2021-03-19 | Author: slackalaxy | Filed under: desktop, network, system | Tags: inittab, lxdm, rc.4, teamviewer | Leave a comment

I had to use TeamViewer. It is available from SBo, so I installed it (version 15.14.5). I am using -current, but the SlackBuild just repackages the binary provided from upstream, anyway. I followed the post-install instructions but the program won’t start.
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