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Here's a procedure to install Slackware 13.0 starting with the CD .iso files on a Linux system using GRUB. It is a modified form of the procedure for installing from a DVD .iso file given here.

It was developed and tested on an ubuntu 8.04 system following a pilot Slackware installation in a VirtualBox virtual machine but nothing in the procedure is specific to that environment.

A file system is populated with the files a) required for GRUB...

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The attachment is my personal blow-by-blow log of installing mrxvt 0.5.4 on Slackware 13.0 with Xfce 4.4. It includes some useful links and details of configuring:

• Xfce panel launcher.
• Xfce menu entry.
• Initial window size.
• Foreground and background colours.
• Profiles.
• Fonts.
• End and Home keys.
• Menus (very basic and sub-menus not working).
• Copy and paste to clipboard by Shift+Ctrl+C and Shift+Ctrl+V.
• Setting window, tab and "Task list" titles to

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Clipboard paste by Ctrl+Shift+V
Add this line to ~/.mrxvt
Clipboard copy by Ctrl+Shift+C

1. Install xclip.
2. Add this line to ~/.mrxvt
   
   Code:

   Mrxvt.macro.Ctrl+Shift+C: Exec !/usr/bin/xclip -o | /usr/bin/xclip -selection clipboard

Notes

• Tested on Slackware 13.0 with mrxvt 0.5.4 and xclip 0.12.
• Ctrl+Shift+V is configured by default to "Paste X selection into active tab" but there is no loss of functionality;

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Coming from Gnome to the lighter weight Xfce I was surprised to discover that no extra packages are required to set up changing backdrops (wallpapers) on Xfce.

Essentially the technique is to create a list of graphic files to be used as backdrops in file ~/.config/xfce4/desktop/backdrops.list and then to run /usr/bin/xfdesktop -reload at intervals. xfdesktop chooses a random backdrop from backdrops.list each time it starts (at session initialisation, normally...

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Many people have posted on the 'net, describing VirtualBox PUEL upgrade as straightforward. My experience of several upgrades was very different with quite some breakage, repair and grief Here's the procedure I have evolved by experimentation to make it less painful, more routine. Several of the specifics (paths, virtual machine name WXP, Kaspersky, TweakUI, and my personal user name is c on ubuntu and C on WXP virtual) will be different on other systems but it should...