Industrial modified

Posted: 2016-10-16 | Author: | Filed under: desktop | Tags: , , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

One of my all time favourite GTK2 themes is the good old Industrial, part of the gtk-engines. I even maintain at SBo the GTK1 Industrial engine/theme. Unfortunatelly, there is no port to GTK3 and seems there will not be anytime soon. Just as with almost all famous GTK2 engines/themes. New themes are emerging following the flat design fashion that I am really not fond of.
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Archaeopteryx configuration

Posted: 2016-09-30 | Author: | Filed under: academic | Tags: , , , , | 1 Comment

Archaeopteryx is a software tool for the visualization, analysis, and editing of potentially large and highly annotated phylogenetic trees. It is available at SBo and is particularly useful if you want to create visually appealing phylogenetic trees, to be used for publication figures or presentation slides. One thing that I do not like is that by default, the program has black interface and black background. Read the rest of this entry »

Row to column in Gnumeric

Posted: 2016-08-30 | Author: | Filed under: academic, office | Tags: , , , , , | 2 Comments

I have some spreadsheet data which I want to present in columns, instead of the rows that I initially entered. I searched a bit and found instructions for Excel here. The principle is the same, so here’s what I did for Gnumeric. Read the rest of this entry »

Legacy icons in XFCE

Posted: 2016-07-17 | Author: | Filed under: desktop | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

I finally upgraded to Slackware64 14.2. I made a clean install and set up the system to be -multilib. I use XFCE and I wanted to use my favourite GNOME Colors icon theme. It is not available at SBo for Slackware 14.2 anymore and it depends on gnome-icon-theme that was removed from Slackware in favour of adwaita-icon-theme. Read the rest of this entry »

Heroes III in a Windows VM

Posted: 2016-07-09 | Author: | Filed under: game | Tags: , , , , | 3 Comments

Over a year ago, I wrote a post about playing Heroes III natively in Linux thanks to the VCMI project. Unfortunatelly, the VCMI engine is not yet stable enough for me to consider the game playable. It turned out to crash way too often, and sometimes the AI players behave in a pretty weird way.

I got tired of it and looked for an alternative approach, at least until VCMI gets more stable. Read the rest of this entry »

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