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Use custom font on konqueror

Posted on November 7, 2009. Filed under: kde, linux |

There’s this really beautiful font i just love! Its Linux Libertine and has more than thousands of characters!
Since i’m studying japanese i’ve been visiting alot the wikipedia’s hiragana page ! and with their default font, for some particular characters, i was seeing alot of squares!
So after a while i figured out that it was the [...]

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Create a entry in the Konqueror right click menu

Posted on January 24, 2008. Filed under: emacs, kde, linux, open source | Tags: , , , , |

I just couldn’t believe this was easy as following this recipe: Konqueror Services Menus
I wanted to be able to edit any file without having an editor associated to that all kind of files. So here’s the result:

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How to prevent emacs from showing the splash screen

Posted on December 15, 2007. Filed under: editor, emacs, gnu, linux, open source | Tags: , , |

Emacs‘ splash screen is enable by default, even if it’s started with a argument, like opening a file. So the solution was always in the splash screen but you’ll find out how to remove the splash screen using the essencial dot emacs file

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How to start a new X server with Quake wars to work as a minimizer for GNU/Linux

Posted on November 15, 2007. Filed under: console, games, linux, open source | Tags: , , , , , |

I’ve played Enemy territory since early 2006 in GNU/Linux and one of the things i missed from the beginning was the lack of a good minimiser. There was a ET minimiser ( ET Switch ) but it didn’t worked very well. So an alternate solution was the even more elegant solution of launching a [...]

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How to create and remove a soft link, symlink or symbolic link

Posted on November 15, 2007. Filed under: console, gnu, linux, open source | Tags: , , , , , , , |

A soft link, or more common, a symlink, is link a shortcut to the targeted file or directory. So when is removed the original target stays present. This is the opposite of a hard link which is a reference to the target and so, if the hard link is removed, so is the target.
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long string : kernel_downgrade

Posted on October 11, 2007. Filed under: desktopbsd, kde4, linux | Tags: |

i’ve downgraded to 2.6.21-ck2 (yes, thats the Con Kolivas patchset) which means no more happy daily panicking. AND i’ve almost burned a cd with k3b!! halted at 68% and gave to the system hiccups. Real hiccups.. really. For every 2-3 seconds the system halted for some 5-6 seconds. Which made writing so much fun! i [...]

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short string : kernel_panic;

Posted on September 30, 2007. Filed under: linux, open source, short string |

So my kernel, which suposed to be working for several years without a halt, is having daily panics.
I went to find out more, and found that my kernel suffers from Panic disorder.
I call him hysterical. (or as the kernel doctor called: medically unexplained)

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Nano – Shortcuts, syntax highlight and nanorc config file – pt1

Posted on June 23, 2007. Filed under: console, editor, gnu, linux, nano, open source |

I have been using nano as my favorite console editor (i use emacs/kate for the rest) for some time now. It’s simplicity, the speed and usefulness of it made it what it is. But recently, i’ve been trying to find out more features that i might been missing. One of those were the shortcuts. The [...]

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Nano – Shortcuts, syntax highlight and .nanorc config file – pt2

Posted on June 23, 2007. Filed under: console, editor, gnu, linux, nano, open source |

And now, let’s look at the .nanorc file.
Here, i’ll go through the .nanorc config file, try to explain parts of it and set the syntax highlight on.
See the first part for shortcuts .

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