ndiswrapper and Ralink 2500

Posted: 2012-12-18 | Author: | Filed under: network, system | Tags: , | Leave a comment

My ancient laptop has a Ralink wireless card (RT2500). It has been supported out of the box for quite some time. Ironically, the wifi works somewhat better with the windows driver, when installed with ndiswrapper. Read the rest of this entry »

Fixing two major issues in Firefox

Posted: 2012-11-24 | Author: | Filed under: network | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

I prefer Seamonkey, but sometimes I use Firefox, too. However, since some recent version, there are two things that I do not like — no easy way to put the tabs below the toolbar, as they used to be, and getting rid of the new tab page (completely). Read the rest of this entry »

Custom XFCE menu

Posted: 2012-11-15 | Author: | Filed under: desktop | Tags: , | 3 Comments

After tweaking the icon size of the XFCE menu, let’s customize it a bit more. Use as a starting point the default: /etc/xdg/menus/xfce-applications.menu and copy it to a custom location, e.g. ~/.config/xfce4/xfce-applications-custom.menu. Read the rest of this entry »

Bigger menu icons in XFCE

Posted: 2012-11-11 | Author: | Filed under: desktop | Tags: , , | 7 Comments

One of the many things I loved about GNOME 2 was the “foot” menu. Its bigger icons made it look somehow more user friendly and uncluttered. At least to me :)

Since I switched to XFCE, I have been wondering if the same could be achieved with the XFCE menu. Finally, I came across this discussion. Read the rest of this entry »

Making sbopkg and sbotools coexist

Posted: 2012-11-09 | Author: | Filed under: slackbuilds, system | Tags: , , | 2 Comments

I have been using that great tool sbopkg for several years and it has always worked perfectly. Combined with the collection of queue files, the dependency resolution becomes semi-automatic.

A new project, called sbotools, emerged recently which seems fairly interesting. Read the rest of this entry »

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