Zotero bibliography manager

Posted: 2014-05-30 | Author: | Filed under: academic, office, slackbuilds | Tags: , , , | 2 Comments

I have been looking for a good bibliography manager for Linux. I have used Bibus in the past, it it does not seem to work with the new versions of OpenOffice.org or LibreOffice. Luckily, I got a great tip from Ryan P.C. McQuen — Zotero. Read the rest of this entry »

gdm Init

Posted: 2014-05-25 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: , , , | 2 Comments

I am using XFCE and decided to make my laptop boot directly to X. So, I installed gdm from SBo and changed the runlevel in /etc/inittab: Read the rest of this entry »

Faster boot

Posted: 2014-05-17 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

I usually do not care too much about my system boot time. Slackware running on modern hardware, especially with a SSD for / (root file system) will boot very fast without any additional tweaking. My laptop, however, does not have a SSD and although the machine is relatively new, I find it convenient to speed up the booting a little more. Read the rest of this entry »

Local .desktop files

Posted: 2014-05-14 | Author: | Filed under: desktop | Tags: , , , | 1 Comment

In XFCE, whenever I needed to customize some menu entry, I would just go to /usr/share/applications/ and edit the corresponding .desktop file. This applies the changes globally and whenever the program is updated the modified .desktop file will be overwritten. Read the rest of this entry »

Mounting an ISO image

Posted: 2014-05-01 | Author: | Filed under: misc, system | Tags: , , , | Leave a comment

Now, that’s a piece of trivia!

Sometimes I want to see what’s on an ISO image, so easiest will be to just mount it to a folder. I have been doing this occasionally since I started using Linux and I still do not remember the exact options. Read the rest of this entry »

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