Thunar not showing thumbnails

I’ve tried a lot. Had thunar-thumbnailers installed, run that thumbnailer update program. I even set world-readable (and writable) permissions on a lot of things. What I didn’t do, though, is run gconf-daemon, since I’m using neither gnome nor xfce4, or any other environment, for that matter. In the end, I switched to PCManFM instead.

Default Firefox UI font too big (using awesome)

As said here, to change the default font of GTK+ applications, edit .gtkrc-2.0 in your home directory and add gtk-font-name=”sans-serif 8″ This was somehow automatically tweaked in Xfce. Some of the options are tweaked by setting values in ~/.config/xfce4/Xft.xrdb, but that’s not it: these values set the same stuff as Xorg’s /usr/local/etc/fonts/local.conf (or default.conf). Anyway, [...]

FreeBSD and Gnome: setting locale to UTF-8

There’s a good manual among the first results of Google. Read it thoroughly and don’t skip anything. For example, ls -d /usr/share/locale/*.UTF-8 lists locales available on your system. Mine somehow didn’t have en_US.UTF-8, which I was trying to set. As for the gnome part, locale support is currently somewhat broken(TM), as stated in /usr/local/etc/gdm/locale.alias This, [...]

Gnome “Places” menu opens Konqueror instead of Nautilus

Basically, this is an issue with Konqueror, not Nautilus or Gnome. To fix it, add these (illegal) MIME types to ~/.local/share/applications/defaults.list: inode/directory=nautilus-folder-handler.desktop x-directory/normal=nautilus-folder-handler.desktop

RSSOwl2

(Edit: if you came from Google about the gnomebreakpad: the latter is a part of Gnome’s bug-buddy, “a graphical bug reporting utility for GNOME“. In most cases, you can just ignore it.) I’ve been trying to run the pre-compiled RSSOwl2 M8. All I get is error code 13 from the Java Virtual Machine. (It happens [...]