GTK1 engine and theme
Posted: 2014-11-01 Filed under: desktop | Tags: gtk1, industrial, theme, theme-switch Leave a commentI like to set a theme for GTK1, so the few programs that use the toolkit do not look as ugly. There is the Industrial engine and theme for GTK1, which has not been developed for a long time, but works just fine. Read the rest of this entry »
Convert mp3 tags encoding
Posted: 2014-10-18 Filed under: media | Tags: clementine, convert, cp1251, encoding, mp3, music Leave a commentI need to change the language encoding of some mp3 files, because they are not displayed properly in Clementine. The song names and albums are in Cyrillic, so I wanted to convert all tags text to CP1251. Read the rest of this entry »
Batch resize of pictures
Posted: 2014-10-08 Filed under: academic, media | Tags: convert, imagemagic, mogrify, resize, scale Leave a commentI had generated graphics from the Simple Modular Architecture Research Tool (S.M.A.R.T.) in the highest possible resolution. However, later on I needed to scale down the graphics.
How to do that? Read the rest of this entry »
Firefox: disable the built-in PDF viewer
Posted: 2014-09-25 Filed under: network, office, slackbuilds | Tags: acroread, adobe acrobat, firefox, pdf, viewer, xpdf Leave a commentWhen the built-in PDF viewer arrived for Firefox, I was quite excited. However, I have to admit that it does not always work well. Sometimes fonts look weird and pictures distorted. Read the rest of this entry »
Converting html
Posted: 2014-09-19 Filed under: misc, office | Tags: convert, html, pdf, png Leave a commentI need to convert a simple webpage to PDF and picture format. Usually, I would just take a screenshot, however it is too big. I searched and I found a nice little tool, called wkhtmltopdf. Read the rest of this entry »
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