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Alien's Slackware packages

Fri, 17 May 2013 09:50:01 GMT
calibre: updated to 0.9.31. For the (unchanged) dependency list, see further down in the ChangeLog.txt. […]
Thu, 16 May 2013 21:58:29 GMT
libstatgrab: added v0.17 - a system statistics library. obconf: updated to cfde287_20121007git (depends on openbox) openbox: updated to 3.5.0 razor-qt: updated to 0.5.2 (depends on libstatgrab, optionally uses openbox as its Window Manager) sddm: added 20130516git - SDDM is the Simple Display Desktop Manager, and a candidate for KDM's eventual replaceme […]
Wed, 15 May 2013 10:40:07 GMT
flashplayer-plugin: updated to 11.2.202.285. This release fixes critical vulnerabilities. For more details, check here: http://www.adobe.com/support/security/bulletins/apsb13-14.html Verify that you are running the correct version on: http://www.adobe.com/software/flash/about/ […]
Sat, 11 May 2013 21:53:10 GMT
sbbdep: updated to 0.2.0. […]

Alien's unofficial KDE Slackware packages

Wed, 15 May 2013 14:56:21 GMT
14.0/kde/kdelibs: Patched to fix a crash exiting KDE or quitting some apps (KDEBUG 319137) […]
Thu, 9 May 2013 22:11:31 GMT
This is the KDE Software Compilation 4.10.3 for Slackware 14.0. Now that Slackware-current has an official set of KDE 4.10.x packages, provided by Patrick Volkerding, I am offering my own packages for Slackware 14.0 - so that users of this stable release can enjoy the KDE upgrade as well. If you already have my previous KDE 4.10.2 packages installed then the […]

Alien's multilib packages

Mon, 6 May 2013 20:50:39 GMT
13.0/glibc-zoneinfo-2013c_multilib-noarch-3alien.txz: Copied from current. 13.1/glibc-zoneinfo-2013c_multilib-noarch-3alien.txz: Copied from current. 13.37/glibc-zoneinfo-2013c_multilib-noarch-3alien.txz: Copied from current. 14.0/glibc-zoneinfo-2013c_multilib-noarch-3alien.txz: Copied from current. current/glibc-2.17_multilib-x86_64-3alien.txz: Rebuilt. cur […]
Mon, 29 Apr 2013 10:11:02 GMT
current/gcc-4.8.0_multilib-x86_64-3alien.txz: Rebuilt. Patched to fix a bug that was breaking WINE with -O2 on x86_64, and probably affected other programs as well. current/gcc-g++-4.8.0_multilib-x86_64-3alien.txz: Rebuilt. current/gcc-gfortran-4.8.0_multilib-x86_64-3alien.txz: Rebuilt. current/gcc-gnat-4.8.0_multilib-x86_64-3alien.txz: Rebuilt. current/gcc- […]

Archive for the tag "gtk"

As you may know I am using KDE for my daily work. However, I use XFCE from time to time – for example when I have to run a remote X session over XDMCP and want to keep a fluid feel to the desktop. When I was working in XFCE yesterday I wanted to use [...]

Posted: 27 August, 2010 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: gtk, qt4, theme, vlc, xfce
Comments: 18

GTK icons suddenly missing

Several GTK-based applications are suddenly showing white icons with a red cross inside. Now what! The update of the “shared-mime-info” package to version 0.70 in slackware-current seems to have changed the mime database format. Slackware will automatically update the system-wide mime info database on every boot. It runs the command update-mime-database /usr/share/mime However, there is [...]

Posted: 18 October, 2009 in Slackware, Software.
Tags: cross, gtk, icon, mime, red
Comments: 5

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