Menu entries in E17

Posted: 2012-07-14 | Author: | Filed under: desktop | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

Every now and then I get this ideas to use the amazing Enlightenment17 — a truly beautiful semi desktop environment. The problem with it was that no menu file was provided by default. Recent versions include a menu file, but I still prefer to use the one from before. Read the rest of this entry »

More firewall scripts

Posted: 2012-07-02 | Author: | Filed under: system | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

Following this discussion at LQ, I would like to take a note of a few more options for a rc.firewall: Read the rest of this entry »

UTF-8

Posted: 2012-06-10 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: , | Leave a comment

Problem: When using UTF-8 system wide, some programs like XMMS have issues (bad fonts size, etc…).
Solution: Launch such programs with a custom LANG setting set in their .desktop file.
First, enable UTF-8. Read the rest of this entry »

QT4 apps and GTK2

Posted: 2012-06-08 | Author: | Filed under: desktop, system | Tags: | Leave a comment

Problem: QT4 applications do not inherit the GTK theme (when using XFCE for example)
Solution: Read AlienBob’s blog regularly :) So, open /etc/profile.d/qt4.sh and add the following lines on some empty rows: Read the rest of this entry »

Firewall

Posted: 2012-06-07 | Author: | Filed under: system | Tags: , , | Leave a comment

Problem: I do not know iptables
Solution: Use a firewall script I found years ago in a Slackware security guide written by Chess Griffin. Create an empty file and name it rc.firewall. Read the rest of this entry »

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