Tumbler: disabling ODF and PDF
Posted: 2012-10-30 Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: odf, pdf, tumbler 2 CommentsSince XFCE 4.10, Thunar does not display thumbnails for some PDF files. There was a short discussion on LQ started by me, but I did not find a solution. Anyway, it annoys me, so I would prefer to have no thumbnails for PDF files rather than that. Also, I do not like to have thumbnails for ODF files. So, what to do? Read the rest of this entry »
BroodWar on Slackware64
Posted: 2012-10-14 Filed under: desktop, game, system | Tags: starcraft, wine, x86_64 2 CommentsAfter making the system multilib, it’s time to compile wine. In my experience, the latest version of wine that let StarCraft work right away is 1.2.2 — let’s use this for now… Read the rest of this entry »
Slackware64 multilib
Posted: 2012-10-05 Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: compat32, multilib Leave a commentUpgraded to Slackware 14, installed almost all software needed from slackbuilds.org and now is time for some final adjustments: making the system multilib. The reason is that I like to play StarCraft for the old days’ sake :) Read the rest of this entry »
sbopkg and the most recent git
Posted: 2012-09-29 Filed under: slackbuilds, system 1 CommentSlackware 14.0 is released!
However, sbopkg is still not ready for the 14.0 repo and in fact the 14.0 repo is not even available yet. So, I just cloned the git repo with: Read the rest of this entry »
Touchpad scroll
Posted: 2012-09-02 Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: laptop, touchpad Leave a commentMy old laptop’s touchpad works but the scroll does not. I’ve been lazy to fix it, but finally peeked at Arch linux’ wiki. So, I just copied the example .conf file /usr/share/X11/xorg.conf.d/50-synaptics.conf to /etc/X11/xorg.conf.d and modified it according to the wiki example: Read the rest of this entry »
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