WPS Office dictionary
Posted: 2017-10-15 Filed under: office | Tags: dictionary, en_GB, spellcheck, WPS Office 2 CommentsI have been using WPS Office for quite some time now, and I am really not looking back. The default spellcheck that comes with the office is American English (en_US). I wanted to add a spell check in Writer for British English, since this is what I normally use for documents.
NOTE (27 May 2023): check this much more recent post of mine, as well as the ready to use dictionaries at GitHub.
NOTE (03 April 2021): Please, check this newer post for updated howto for WPS Office 11.*!
Swap speakers
Posted: 2017-10-08 Filed under: media, system | Tags: pavucontrol, pulseaudio, speaker, swap Leave a commentI have a pair of active speakers and I need to swap Right and Left. Simply, cabling will be much easier this way. I cannot set this in the speakers themselves, so I searched for a software solution. I googled around and found this discussion for Ubuntu. One of the posts had the solution, that works also for Slackware.
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TP-LINK TL-WN722N driver
Posted: 2017-09-02 Filed under: network, system | Tags: driver, kernel, module, TL-WN722N, TP-LINK, wifi, wireless 6 CommentsI bought a TP-LINK TL-WN722N usb wireless adapter. Turns out it is not supported out-of-the-box on Slackware 14.2. The adapter box said that it is supported in Linux, so naively I put the CD provided and looked for the driver. In the Linux folder, there was a README file advising me to go download the drivers from http://www.tp-link.com/. I will not discuss the requirement to go online in order to obtain the drivers for a network adapter…
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Chrome broken fonts
Posted: 2017-08-22 Filed under: desktop, network | Tags: chromium, font, google chrome, hinting, rendering Leave a commentI recently upgraded to Google Chrome 60.0.3112, using the script in Slackware 14.2 /extra. I immediatelly noticed a problem with fonts rendering, which affected not only web sites, but the browser itself. The same problem exists in Alien Bob’s Chromium package, version 60.3112.78.
Very annoying:
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