Blueman and Pulseaudio

Posted: 2024-11-30 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, ports, system | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

I have bluetooth headphones that I connect to my PC running CRUX with Pulseaudio. However, I have experienced problems with connecting them. This is something from before, but I decided to outline the solution.
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Extracting a *.snap package

Posted: 2024-10-31 | Author: | Filed under: network, ports, system | Tags: , , | 1 Comment

I still use Skype, however I was stuck at an old version. The reason was that this was the last *.deb package of the program provided by upstream. For the following versions, it is distributed as a *.snap. I really know nothing about these and I thought I was done with Skype. Well, turns out that’s not the case.
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Getting rid of *.la files once and for all

Posted: 2024-09-27 | Author: | Filed under: system | Tags: , , , | 14 Comments

CRUX does not remove *.la files by default. I try to make my ports clean these up, but there are many others that still ship them. I have run into pretty silly problems because of them, so I decided to do something about it.
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WPS Office bold fonts problems

Posted: 2024-08-10 | Author: | Filed under: office, ports, system | Tags: , , | 13 Comments

I use WPS Office for my work and so far have been quite happy with it. However, I noticed that it has some problem with certain fonts, when bold. I am not sure when this started, but apparently it happened after a certain freetype update. So, I decided to look around for a solution.
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A fonts configuration file dedicated to a single program

Posted: 2024-07-31 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: , , | 2 Comments

How do you make a program use its own, customized fonts settings? Let’s say, I want to start Viber with fonts configuration that is different from what’s system-wide. The reason is that Viber seems to use an inbuilt font, for which my global hinting settings do not play nice. I also wanted to specify the Noto Emoji (Black and White) font to be used in Viber (my port includes it in the package). Here’s how it’s done. I’m on CRUX 3.7, but the strategy is the same for any Linux distribution.
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