Tor browser won’t start
Posted: 2023-07-02 Filed under: desktop, network, system | Tags: browser, gdk_wayland_display_get_wl_compositor, libxul.so, shim.c, shim.so, tor, tor-browser, XPCOM, XPCOMGlueLoad Leave a commentOn CRUX 3.7, the Tor browser (version 12.5 at the moment) fails to start. It is not available as a port, so I just downloaded the Linux tarball from the official website, extracted it, and tried to run the program. Nothing. Therefore, I decided to find out what’s wrong and search for a fix.
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Automatic transliteration
Posted: 2023-06-04 Filed under: desktop, office | Tags: alphabet, ASCII, cyrillic, detox, file name, latin, rename, uconv Leave a commentRecently, there was an interesting discussion in #slackbuilds @libera.chat with lockywolf about Cyrillic to Latin transliteration. I never name files or folders in Cyrillic (a habit left from the Windows 9* times), but others do, so it’s not a bad idea to be able to automatically achieve this.
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Eleven years for Slackalaxy
Posted: 2023-05-31 Filed under: misc Leave a commentIt has been 11 years… With this one, my humble blog makes total of 263 posts.
WPS Office dictionaries collection
Posted: 2023-05-27 Filed under: desktop | Tags: dictionaries, dictionary, lang, language, spellcheck, WPS Office 2 CommentsI have just submitted wps-office-dicts to SBo. The script packages spell check dictionaries for WPS Office. The language files themselves are the LibreOffice Dictionaries project, but adapted for WPS Office, following the instructions of this old post of mine. However, it got me thinking that not only Slackware users may want to have these easy to install, therefore I made a wps-office-dicts repo at my GitHub.
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Column to cell in a spreadsheet
Posted: 2023-04-30 Filed under: office | Tags: Cell values, excel, gene, row, sc-type, spreadsheet, transpose Leave a commentI have a list of gene names in a spreadsheet column hat I need to transform to a row. Using the transpose function does not do the job, because gene names should be in a single cell, comma separated. So, I searched a bit and found the TEXTJOIN function.
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