February 2010 archive

Quick note to users installing ~arch KDE4

Hello all, As some of you may know, I prefer Openbox to the larger desktop environments. However, I went to install KDE4 today on someone else’s computer, and ran into a problem with circular dependencies involving CUPS, GTK+, poppler, and cmake. The simple solution to the problem is to: USE=”-cups” emerge -av kdebase-meta and then …

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Quick Openbox HOWTO update

Just a quick update to let everyone know that I made some changes to the Openbox HOWTO in the documentation repository, and that Josh was blazing fast at getting it committed; thank you Josh! I addressed submenu delay that came with >x11-wm/openbox-3.4.7.2, and how to fix it in the rc.xml configuration file, updated the external …

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A quick privacy note on Chromium

Yesterday, I became a bit peeved about the speed of page rendering in Mozilla Firefox as compared to Uzbl. While Uzbl is a fantastic browser, it is not my preferred choice for a daily-use browser (yet). Further, as it is built on WebKit, I figured that that might have something to do with its great …

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