Showing posts with label Xfce. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Xfce. Show all posts

Thursday, 21 May 2020

Make XChange PDF Viewer the standard PDF reader in Linux

I like the speed and functionality of the Tracker XChange PDF Viewer version 2 and use it already for a long time under Windows. Unfortunately I couldn't find an equivalent PDV viewer for Linux that has the same capabilities, especially regarding marking of text and OCR.
To make the reader available as default in OpenSUSE with Xfce i put the file "XChange PDF Viewer.desktop" with the following  content into the folder "/home/user/.local/share/applications/".

[Desktop Entry]
Version=1.0
Type=Application
Name=XChange PDF Viewer
Comment=Project-Id-Version: @PACKAGE@\nReport-Msgid-Bugs-To: i18n@suse.de\nPOT-Creation-Date: 2015-10-01 14:51+0000\nPO-Revision-Date: 2005-11-08 12:26+8\nLast-Translator: Steve Beattie \nLanguage-Team: English\nLanguage: \nMIME-Version: 1.0\nContent-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8\nContent-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit\nPlural-Forms: nplurals=2; plural=n != 1;\n
Exec=wine "/windows/wd/Program Files/Tracker Software/PDF Viewer/PDFXCview.exe" Z:%F %F
Icon=/windows/wd/Program Files/Tracker Software/PDF Viewer/PDF-XChange-Viewer.png
Path=
Terminal=false
StartupNotify=false

Friday, 18 March 2016

HotCorners in OpenSUSE with XFCE

There is a plugin for XFCE to use "Hot Corners" to start specific actions by moving the mouse curser into the corners of the screen. The plugin is easily compiled but does not show up in openSUSE 64bit as available Xfce panel. This comment remarks that under x86_64 openSUSE the Xfce plugins must be installed into the folder /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/.
So, a quick
sudo mv /usr/lib/xfce4/panel/plugins/libhotcorner.so /usr/lib64/xfce4/panel/plugins/libhotcorner.so
resolves this problem.

P.S.: There seems to be a problem with the fixation of the "Custom Command" you can put in. For me this command would be skippy-xd --activate-window-picker to activate the window manager tool Skippy (openSUSE download). The custom command is working fine in HotCorner but sometimes when opening the properties dialogue again the setting is gone and the configuration file ~/.config/xfce4/panel/hotcorner-17.rc does not contain the custom command setting any more.

Saturday, 22 August 2015

Windows 10 --> Linux

  • OpenSuse 13.2
  • XFCE
  • Xfce and openSUSE – Five Steps to Perfection
  • Image Scan! for Linux
  • RedShift
  • DoubleCommander  (GTK)
  • KeePass
  • Wine
    • Foobar 2000
    • Ant Movie Catalog
  • Clementine
  • PulseAudio Volume Control
  • SMPlayer
  • Htop
  • Terminator
  • CopyQ, als Clipboard Manager installieren
  • Snippets in CopyQ, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xVUzM7TjV_g
  • Using fonts from a Windows partition, https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/Microsoft_fonts
# sudo ln -s /windows/C/Windows/Fonts /usr/share/fonts/WindowsFonts
# fc-cache 
  •  ~/.profile 
export LC_TIME=de_DE.UTF-8
export LC_MONETARY=nb_NO.UTF-8
export LC_PAPER=de_DE.UTF-8
export LC_NAME=de_DE.UTF-8
export LC_ADDRESS=nb_NO.UTF-8
export LC_TELEPHONE=nb_NO.UTF-8
export LC_MEASUREMENT=de_DE.UTF-8
export LC_IDENTIFICATION=de_DE.UTF-8
  •  50-sound.conf
options snd slots=snd-hda-intel,snd-hda-intel
# 5Dex.DTwrdue_pn8:M5A88-V EVO
alias snd-card-0 snd-hda-intel
# NXNs.h6omwnn_KfB:Cape Verde/Pitcairn HDMI Audio [Radeon HD 7700/7800 Series]
alias snd-card-1 snd-hda-intel