Removing WINE file associations

Posted: 2015-04-18 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, misc, system | Tags: , | Leave a comment

I keep WINE installed for the sole purpose of playing StarCraft – BroodWar if I happen to be in a nostalgic mood. Annoyingly, WINE tends to “steal” a lot of the file associations from other programs. Read the rest of this entry »

Custom xdg user directories

Posted: 2015-04-02 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

I do not particularly like the standard folders that are automatically created in my $HOME. I used to just delete them and then set emblems on my own folders in XFCE. Some time ago, I found a discussion on LinuxQuestions about what program creates these automatically. Read the rest of this entry »

Video driver in the initrd.gz

Posted: 2015-03-19 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

I have an ATI Radeon HD 6450 card. Sometimes upon boot, just when the console should switch to the screen native resolution, it apparently fails to do so. The screen goes black and the computer restarts. Read the rest of this entry »

Setting date and time

Posted: 2015-01-04 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

Whenever I need to adjust my computer’s clock, I set the right time in the BIOS. I am using XFCE, which does not provide a graphical tool for this (unlike KDE). Recently, I searched for a smarter way to do it and came across these nice examples. Read the rest of this entry »

Sound in Skype via apulse

Posted: 2014-12-22 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, media, network, system | Tags: , , , , , | 5 Comments

I have been using the 4.3 version of Skype for several months already, with PulseAudio and its compat packages installed. However, I experienced problems with some audio programs. XMMS would crash regularly and Clementine would refuse playing. Read the rest of this entry »

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