LyX icon

Posted: 2014-12-14 | Author: | Filed under: desktop | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

Although I do not often use it, I like to have the LyX Document processor available. It can be easily installed from SBo and works very well. A little inconvenience is the absence of a menu entry. Read the rest of this entry »

SeaMonkey Composer

Posted: 2014-12-12 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, network | Tags: , , , , | Leave a comment

From time to time I need to create or maintain a simple web-page. For the purpose I have used KompoZer, which is available at SBo, but as a 32bit application. Although it runs fine on a Slackware64 -multilib system, I have experienced occasional hang ups and crashes. 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 »

QT4 apps and GTK+ icons

Posted: 2014-02-15 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

When using a desktop environment like XFCE, the only thing required to make QT4 programs look consistent with the rest of the desktop was this. QT4 applications like Clementine inherited the GTK+ theme settings and apparently XFCE took care of the icons theme. However, this is not the case with E17. Read the rest of this entry »

Bigger menu icons in XFCE

Posted: 2012-11-11 | Author: | Filed under: desktop | Tags: , , | 5 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 »

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