Software

Unreadable tiny names in LibreOffice Calc sheet tabs

This issue happens in LibreOffice 4.3 and older with some desktop themes. To solve this, either change your desktop theme or increase the value of GtkScrollbar::slider_width in the file /usr/share/themes//gtk-2.0/gtkrc. In my case, the line was commented out. Activating it with the default value…

Pacman: use regex to install multiple packages

Say I want to install all the packages starting with 'festival'. Using a wildcard throws an error, as well as using a regex, quoted or not: And it is perfectly normal... since this is not implemented! One solution is to pipe the result of a search query, which does support regex:

Hide Vimperator bottom bar

Copy the following snippet in your Vimperator configuration file (mine is ~/.vimperatorrc): Restart Firefox, then type ctrl+F8 to hide/show the bottom bar. As the author warns, you must first make the bar visible in order to execute commands. This is useful to me when watching a video in fullscreen…

GNU/Linux: read-only file system error when accessing FAT/FAT32 drive

Sometimes and for no obvious reason, I suddenly cannot write or delete a file located on a removable USB drive using a FAT file system. Having no knowledge about all the magic going on under file system operations, I can just observe that some actions previously done successfully on some drives are…

Arch Linux upgrade fails because some file exists in filesystem

From time to time, pacman refuses to upgrade because of a file conflict. Since it does not want to take the responsibility of overwriting an existing file which might be used by another package, it displays the following error: In this case, pacman tries to install the package freeimage, which…