Following the recent update to Opera Developer (25.0.1583.1) the fonts rendered both inside the browser and on the tabs was showing as without anti-aliasing. Reviewing and changing the font settings of the browser made no improvement to the font rendering. The configuration of the Fonts under the KDE System Settings was considered. The Font setting […]
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This list was constructed for my last MythTV channel entry update session, dating from around the time of the switch to digital. Entries are based upon the Hannington transmitter values. Rebuilding the MythTV list of channels I find invariably requires an update to one or more of the entries in the MythTV channel table. — General; UPDATE […]
I have a KDE panel at the top of the screen, with a number of icon launchers to common programs. The items are added by dragging the icon from the main KDE menu to the panel. With the long awaited release of Opera there is a new reference and logo to add to the panel. […]
With the End of life for Windows XP it was time to replace the OS on a Panasonic CF-W2 ToughBook laptop. The CF-W2 is well designed, but the laptop is low on memory. I therefore chose to install Debian with the XFCE window manager. Also I hadn’t used it for several years and was interested […]
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Wishing to set the file manager as Dolphin I looked at the options available under the KDE System Settings. Following a recent update Dolphin had been replaced by Konqueror as the default file manager in KDE. In KDE’s System Settings select Default Applications. For me this was shown in the second row – Workspace Appearance […]
I found that my printer was no longer functioning. Documents sent to print were held with notification that the PPD version was incompatible with the Gutenprint version. To view the print queue I opened the KDE System Settings and navigated to Printers. There selecting the printer, an Epson CX3200, I observed the entries in the […]
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GTK based applications when viewed in KDE can look very ugly, with square, plain grey surrounds. In Debian adding the kde-config-gtk-style package allows for the appearance of GTK applications to be configured. Themes and icon sets can be downloaded and applied. From the command line the package is added in the usual way using: apt-get […]
The aim is to be able to auto rotate all images within a directory, based upon their EXIF data. I wanted to create a file, similar to that in use for converting mpg to mp3 I had found reference to the use of the command jhead. For my default Debian installation jhead was not installed […]
Looking in the KDE4 configuration System Settings page Locale > Languages. Only American English is offered as an option in the left hand Available Languages box. I was interested in adding English language to the list of preferred Languages in the right hand box. Hovering over the left hand Available Languages only installed language shows […]
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Updating a new Debian installation gave a missing firmware module tg3 error. The Debian installation was on one of the little HP ProLiant MicroServers. Performing a Debian apt upgrade the most recent update, which included a Linux image, gave the error: W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigon/tg3_tso5.bin for module tg3 W: Possible missing firmware /lib/firmware/tigon/tg3_tso.bin for […]
