Posted: 2015-11-01 | Author: slackalaxy | Filed under: slackbuilds | Tags: SBo, slackbuilds, source, tarball |
The SBo project does not host the sources of the packages that are built. It is an elegant approach to save space, but occasionally presents problems. Sometimes the source may get moved, renamed or (even worse) it may be an unversioned archive that just changes its MD5SUM. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 2015-10-30 | Author: slackalaxy | Filed under: desktop, network | Tags: customize, extension, firefox, icons, plugin, seamonkey, thunderbird, toolbar |
A very nice extension for SeaMonkey is the Toolbar Buttons. It provides many additional buttons for the browser — just right click on the toolbar, select Customize and drag whatever you need on the toolbar: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 2015-10-03 | Author: slackalaxy | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: 99-hide-partitions.rules, cfdisk, hide, partition, thunar, udev |
My laptop has a Windows 7 disk partition, as well as a System and a Lenovo recovery partitions. I do not need these to be shown in my file browser (Thunar) nor in the open/save file dialogs. Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 2015-09-20 | Author: slackalaxy | Filed under: desktop, network | Tags: .desktop, browsing, icons, private, seamonkey |
I prefer to have a separate menu entry to start my web browser in private mode. I have been using SeaMonkey for quite some time and I always did: Read the rest of this entry »
Posted: 2015-09-10 | Author: slackalaxy | Filed under: academic, office | Tags: about:config, bibliography, zotero |
I have been using the Zotero biobliography manager, installed from SBo. Despite that I am the current maintainer of the program at SBo, I cannot immediatelly provide an update of its SlackBuild, when a new version comes out.
Annoyingly, Zotero would insist on showing a notification that a new version is available, offering to update the installation. Read the rest of this entry »
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