Customizing KDE4
Posted: 2013-06-08 Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: compat32, faenza, GTK2, kde4, qtcurve, sbotools 1 CommentWell, though I really like XFCE, I have to admit there are several really nice things in KDE. One of them is the power management options and the integration between the power manager and the screensaver. Another one is the customization of the keyboard layouts. For example, I like to keep two major layouts to be switched with ALT + SHIFT and two extra that can be selected with the mouse. Read the rest of this entry »
slackpkg+ 0.9.1
Posted: 2013-05-19 Filed under: system 2 CommentsAs zerouno mentioned here, a new version of slackpkg+ is available. From it’s website:
The Slackpkg+ project is a simple plugin that allow the user to add third-party repositories to slackpkg so to use a single tool for keep update the slackware installation and to install non-official packages.
xgamma & xbacklight
Posted: 2013-05-09 Filed under: desktop, system Leave a commentBack to using XFCE. My experience with KDE was a nice run, but I miss the simplicity of GTK :) Anyway, it seems that the XFCE panel brightness plugin does not remember the settings after log off. Read the rest of this entry »
kdm Xsetup
Posted: 2013-05-01 Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: kdm, xgamma, Xsetup 1 CommentWhen using KDE, I like to boot into runlevel 4 and have the nice KDM login manager. However, I also like to set the gamma of my screen to a lower value. When booting into runlevel 3, I would just place the following in the beginning of my ~/.xinitrc: Read the rest of this entry »
queues
Posted: 2013-04-05 Filed under: slackbuilds, system | Tags: queues, sqg Leave a commentI have been using the great and handy sbopkg tool for quite some time and it works very well. Normally, I would just download the queue files collection and place it in /var/lib/sbopkg/queues. Recently, I heard about a nice little script called sqg that can generate queues files. Read the rest of this entry »
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