64bit Seamonkey and 32bit Adobe Reader

Posted: 2012-08-11 | Author: | Filed under: desktop | Tags: , | 1 Comment

I needed to fill a form that required Adobe Reader. So, I made my Slackware64 13.37 system multilib, following AlienBob’s instructions. Then, I installed xulrunner and adobe-reader from SBo and did the necessary to make adobe-reader use my GTK+ theme. Read the rest of this entry »

Menu entries in E17

Posted: 2012-07-14 | Author: | Filed under: desktop | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

Every now and then I get this ideas to use the amazing Enlightenment17 — a truly beautiful semi desktop environment. The problem with it was that no menu file was provided by default. Recent versions include a menu file, but I still prefer to use the one from before. Read the rest of this entry »

Firefox PDF Viewer plugin

Posted: 2012-07-05 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, network | Tags: , , | 1 Comment

In Slackware64, even if the system is converted to multilib and Adobe Reader runs fine, there will still be problems for it to integrate into Firefox. A 64bit Firefox and 32bit Acrobat apparently do not work nicely together… Read the rest of this entry »

Seamonkey/Firefox Old Default Image Style

Posted: 2012-07-04 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, network | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

I really hate the new default image style for Seamonkey and Firefox: background is forced to black and the image is centered. For example if I want to view some application icon from SBo that has shadow it all looks just wrong… Read the rest of this entry »

Hiding unwanted .desktop entries from the menu

Posted: 2012-06-24 | Author: | Filed under: desktop | Tags: , | 1 Comment

Problem: There are a few desktop entries that I do not want to be shown in the menu.
Solution: I used to just delete them from /usr/share/applications, but apparently there was a smarter way. Just open the .desktop file, e.g. /usr/share/applications/CMake.desktop and add the NoDisplay option: Read the rest of this entry »

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