https://sanity.acromatic.uk/ 2026-05-14T12:05:23+00:00 https://sanity.acromatic.uk/ https://sanity.acromatic.uk/lib/tpl/dokuwiki/images/favicon.ico text/html 2019-11-07T17:58:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://sanity.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=slackware:app_list&rev=1573149491&do=diff From /extra * wicd: no need to uninstall anything, seemingly, just use installpkg. * kdei, assuming you haven't installed the full kdei bloat (en_gb): * kde-l10n-en_GB-*-noarch-1 * koffice-l10n-en_GB-*-noarch-1 3rd Party * jEdit * ROX text/html 2019-11-07T17:58:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://sanity.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=slackware:backlighting&rev=1573149491&do=diff Backlighting Seemingly a perennial issue with KDE, not only do hotkey backlight changes not work (even though there are 3 or 4 different ways that they should), but whatever workaround we come up with seems to get crushed on each update. Every bug report gets marked text/html 2019-11-07T17:58:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://sanity.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=slackware:cdiff&rev=1573149491&do=diff Paste the following into .bashrc (from Paul Warren): # cdiff: coloured diff format # # Paul Warren <pdw@ex-parrot.com> # 12/01/2001 # Licensed under the GPL # colour for added lines (bright yellow) diffnew=`tput setf 6``tput bold` # colour for removed lines (bright red) diffold=`tput setf 4``tput bold` # colour for unchanged lines (bright black, aka dark grey) diffsame=`tput setf 0``tput bold` # reset - original pair, unset all attributes reset=`tput op``tput sgr0` alias cdiff="d… text/html 2019-11-07T17:58:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://sanity.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=slackware:development&rev=1573149491&do=diff Ruby gems As root: cd src/rubygems-1.3.7 export RUBYOPT="" ruby setup.rb RUBYOPT is set in .bashrc to include ruby gems, but means that ruby will fail if it can't find a working gems install. Gems commonly used: * mini_exiftool (which requires command-line tool text/html 2019-11-07T17:58:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://sanity.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=slackware:dictionaries&rev=1573149491&do=diff Ispell (command-line spell-checking) " In english.zip you find four different english variants of ISPELL dictionaries with one common affix file (english.aff): english/american.med+ english/american.xlg english/british.med+ english/british.xlg text/html 2019-11-07T17:58:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://sanity.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=slackware:etc&rev=1573149491&do=diff DIR_COLORS .divx 01;35 .rmvb 01;35 .mkv 01;35 .gvi 01;35 bashrc fstab UUID=ba59924f-c65e-4d66-bb49-a35fe3641ffa /home/slack/sata ext3 users,noauto 0 0 UUID=a206664d-7660-4a90-9bd2-db7313df0da2 /home/slack/maxtor ext2 users,noauto 0 0 UUID=af8c6e5a-8304-4707-aa1e-e6158b8e5a68 /home/slack/manhattan ext3 users,noauto 0 0 nexus:/home/slack /home/slack/nexus nfs users,noauto 0 0 nexus:/home/slack/big /home/slack/nexus/bi… text/html 2019-11-07T17:58:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://sanity.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=slackware:filezilla&rev=1573149491&do=diff Filezilla At present, SlackBuild is your friend. The only dependency is the SlackBuild (unicode) version of wxGTK. text/html 2019-11-07T17:58:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://sanity.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=slackware:fonts&rev=1573149491&do=diff Aim Rationale MSTT Core Fonts A standard package of MS fonts for Linux available from Sourceforge contain Andale Mono, Arial Black, Arial (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic), Comic Sans MS (Bold), Courier New (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic), Georgia (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic), Impact, Times New Roman (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic), Trebuchet (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic), Verdana (Bold, Italic, Bold Italic) and Webdings. text/html 2019-11-07T17:58:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://sanity.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=slackware:get_iplayer&rev=1573149491&do=diff Dependencies: * HTML::Entities, MP3::Info and HTTP:Cookies, from cpan (aside: you might want to download LWP on CPAN to stop it whining, but maybe avoid updating it unless you can leave it overnight, with a squirrel pressing enter every couple of hours) * flvstreamer (install with “make posix; mv flvstreamer rtmpsrv rtmpsuck streams /usr/local/bin/ text/html 2019-11-07T17:58:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://sanity.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=slackware:jedit&rev=1573149491&do=diff As of Slackware 14.1 the pre-installed java runtime engine (jre) is too old for jedit to run. Oracle have also changed licensing terms so that newer versions of java can't be packaged with OSes. So you need to search slackbuilds for “jdk” and accept the oracle licensing terms before downloading the source from them. text/html 2019-11-07T17:58:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://sanity.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=slackware:keymaps&rev=1573149491&do=diff Aim * Swap (left) control and caps lock * Swap “ and @ * Add a custom keymap based on the UK map with easy access to Spanish characters Rationale Caps lock and control If you are used to the standard keyboard layout, the most likely reason for wanting to move the control key is to avoid RSI in your left wrist. If you use ctrl-combinations often, particularly with letters towards the left of the keyboard, you will find yourself bending your wrist sharply for extended periods, which oft… text/html 2019-11-07T17:58:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://sanity.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=slackware:memory_recovery&rev=1573149491&do=diff # Delete everything in /tmp whenever the system is shut down /usr/bin/find /tmp -mindepth 1 -maxdepth 1 -exec /bin/rm -rf {} +; text/html 2019-11-07T17:58:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://sanity.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=slackware:mktorrent&rev=1573149491&do=diff make USE_LARGE_FILES=1 sudo make install seems to segfault less. If that still doesn't work, compiling with any of USE_PTHREADS=1 USE_OPENSSL=1 USE_LONG_OPTIONS=1 might help. text/html 2019-11-07T17:58:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://sanity.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=slackware:ntfs-3g&rev=1573149491&do=diff Instructions from Arch Linux: Allowing user to mount By default, ntfs-3g requires root rights to mount the filesystem, even with the “user” option in /etc/fstab, the reason why can be found [<http://www.tuxera.com/community/ntfs-3g-faq/#unprivileged> here]. The user option in the fstab is still required. To be able to mount as user, a few tweaks need to be made: text/html 2019-11-07T17:58:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://sanity.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=slackware:office_settings&rev=1573149491&do=diff When installing Microsoft Office 2003 on Crossover Linux, the office tools seemingly do not appear in the KDE menu. In order to run this wizard (in order to install your own Office configuration, keystrokes etc) you need to run the generic programme launcher: text/html 2019-11-07T17:58:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://sanity.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=slackware:openshot&rev=1573149491&do=diff Dependencies already satisfied by Slackware: * sox Dependencies of get_iplayer: * ffmpeg Unfilled dependencies: * frei0r git clone git://code.dyne.org/frei0r.git * mlt (<http://sourceforge.net/projects/mlt/files/>) * pyXDG? (<http://www.freedesktop.org/wiki/Software/pyxdg>) text/html 2019-11-07T17:58:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://sanity.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=slackware:packet_injection&rev=1573149491&do=diff Packet Injection The internal wireless card is an Intel Wireless WiFi Link 5100. The driver used by default is iwlagn. There is mention of iwlwifi being good for injection. But injection works, to some not-clearly-understood-by-me extent, with the default drivers. text/html 2019-11-07T17:58:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://sanity.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=slackware:printers&rev=1573149491&do=diff LBP 3370 Found in pkg/LBP3370 or download from here: * [cndrvcups-common-2.00-2.i386.tgz] * [cndrvcups-ufr2-uk-2.00-2.i386.tgz] Then add printers using CUPS (logging in, when prompted, as root). text/html 2019-11-07T17:58:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://sanity.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=slackware:rtorrent&rev=1573149491&do=diff Dependencies libsigc++ This time I needed export PKG_CONFIG_PATH=/usr/local/lib/pkgconfig/ to tell rtorrent's ./configure where to find sigc++-2.0.pc libtorrent libtorrent Not from rasterbar, which didn't work. Configuration text/html 2019-11-07T17:58:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://sanity.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=slackware:truecrypt&rev=1573149491&do=diff There is a slackbuild, which maybe fixes all this stuff, but itself has some odd dependencies. The site has an installer for the cl version. Truecrypt binary root privileges The Truecrypt binary needs to have root privileges. I installed Truecrypt 6.0a on Slackware 12.1 and it gives me the same message. The fix is to create a group with the privilege of running the truecrypt binary and add your unprivileged (non-root) users to the truecrypt group so they can run Truecrypt. Do the following (a… text/html 2019-11-07T17:58:11+00:00 Anonymous (anonymous@undisclosed.example.com) https://sanity.acromatic.uk/doku.php?id=slackware:xbindkeys&rev=1573149491&do=diff Global Shortcuts (xbindkeys) Xfce doesn't seem to have the ability to assign shortcuts to arbitrary commands, but xbindkeys can do this. For example, to add brightness control, add this to .xbindkeysrc: "/home/slack/bin/dbacklight -10" Control+Shift + F5 "/home/slack/bin/dbacklight +20" Control+Shift + F6