Cyrillic in the XMMS playlist

Posted: 2015-04-04 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, media | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

In the XMMS playlist, the default font for GTK1 does not display correctly Cyrillic file names. A commonly used encoding for Cyrillic text is CP1251. Read the rest of this entry »

Custom xdg user directories

Posted: 2015-04-02 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

I do not particularly like the standard folders that are automatically created in my $HOME. I used to just delete them and then set emblems on my own folders in XFCE. Some time ago, I found a discussion on LinuxQuestions about what program creates these automatically. Read the rest of this entry »

Video driver in the initrd.gz

Posted: 2015-03-19 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: , , , , , , , | Leave a comment

I have an ATI Radeon HD 6450 card. Sometimes upon boot, just when the console should switch to the screen native resolution, it apparently fails to do so. The screen goes black and the computer restarts. Read the rest of this entry »

Start from current slide in Impress

Posted: 2015-02-18 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, office | Tags: , , , , | Leave a comment

I use LibreOffice and sometimes, when I go through a presentation I want to enter full screen mode from the current slide. This can be done by pressing SHIFT + F5, but I decided to put a button in the toolbar. Read the rest of this entry »

Protein MSA secondary structure

Posted: 2015-02-14 | Author: | Filed under: academic | Tags: , , , , , | Leave a comment

I needed to predict the secondary structure of amino acid sequences, already in a multiple sequence alignment (MSA). This means that the sequences had gaps, which could be a problem. I searched the net for a suitable, easy-to-use application or online server. Read the rest of this entry »

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