Firefox: disable the built-in PDF viewer

Posted: 2014-09-25 | Author: | Filed under: network, office, slackbuilds | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

When the built-in PDF viewer arrived for Firefox, I was quite excited. However, I have to admit that it does not always work well. Sometimes fonts look weird and pictures distorted. Read the rest of this entry »

GenomeTools

Posted: 2014-09-17 | Author: | Filed under: academic, drawing, slackbuilds | Tags: , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

I need to export gene coordinates and exon organisation as a figure. I have prepared the annotations in UniPro Ugene, which I have installed from SBo. A nice tool for graphical representation of such data is provided by the GenomeTools software. It can be easily installed from SBo, too. Read the rest of this entry »

Clearing syslog

Posted: 2014-08-26 | Author: | Filed under: misc, system | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

Due to some reason, my /var/log/syslog had grown over 500MB. Since I have /var mounted to a separate partition I noticed it easily. I had never had such an issue, so I googled around and found this very old post. Read the rest of this entry »

Sound in Skype 4.3

Posted: 2014-08-16 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, media, network, slackbuilds, system | Tags: , , , , , , , | 2 Comments

Since version 4.3, Skype for Linux requires PulseAudio. It is available from SBo, but since Skype is a 32bit program only, the necessary 32bit compatibility packages should be installed as well. I am running Slackware64 14.1 -multilib system and I have a virtual machine with Slackware 32. Read the rest of this entry »

Run an application with a specific GTK2 theme

Posted: 2014-07-30 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

I want to run an application with a GTK2 theme that is different from the global one. Searching the Arch Linux wiki, pointed me to their solution. Read the rest of this entry »

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