Touchpad tap
Posted: 2022-02-27 Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: laptop, synaptics, tap, touchpad Leave a commentMy ThinkPad x230 is running CRUX, with packages installed from my own custom repository. Things seem to work just fine, however, the touchpad did not behave nicely out-of-the-box, as was the case with Slackware. Tapping did not work, I had to press instead.
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Split text in Inkscape
Posted: 2022-01-31 Filed under: drawing | Tags: inkscape, split, text Leave a commentI have a block of text in Inkscape that represents a single selection. However, I want to split it, making each individual row as a be separate entry, so it can be selected independently. It is actually quite easy to do, I just keep forgetting it.
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Deal with missing *.la files on CRUX
Posted: 2021-12-24 Filed under: system | Tags: CRUX, la, prt-cache, prt-get Leave a commentMany programs started removing *.la files in the recent years. I will not discuss about them, but from what I have understood it is an obsolete system. This leads to problems, when a program would no longer build since it expects to find *.la files that are no longer there.
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Rotate text in Inkscape
Posted: 2021-11-27 Filed under: drawing | Tags: inkscape, rotate, text Leave a commentI am preparing a figure where I need to label several violin plots. I do not have enough space under the figure to fit everything without looking cluttered. So, I want to make the labels slanted at 45 degrees. How to do it in Inkscape?
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Spreadsheet cells’ contents length
Posted: 2021-11-07 Filed under: office | Tags: gnumeric, spreadsheet Leave a commentI need to compare a list of UniProt identifiers to a database of protein-protein interactions. All IDs in my list are 6 characters in length, while the database I am comparing to has many entries that are longer. I want to clean these up, since nothing from my list will match to them and I also want to speed searches by making the database smaller.
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