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Make chromium faster with video acceleration

by Walter Rudametkin     linux chromium feature

I tried this on my Dell e6530 and it seems to work pretty good.

http://www.borfast.com/blog/how-enable-webgl-google-chrome-linux-blacklisted-graphics-card

For video acceleration : Go to chrome://flags → Override software rendering list → Set to Enable

This works for both Chrome and Chromium.

Add Chrome PDF Viewer to Chromium on Fedora 20 x86_64

by Walter Rudametkin     linux chromium feature

I really would like a PDF reader that saves the open pdf files in tabs, like a browser does. It would let me get back to reading whatever I was reading after a restart. Currently, I try to restart as little as possible, usually between 20 and 40 days in order to save all my open stuff. I would use Mendeley except the open tabs feature request has been open since 2009 and not implemented yet!!! http://feedback.mendeley.com/forums/4941-general/suggestions/263198-remember-open-tabs-and-position-within-pdfs.

My answer for PDFs is to use my browser to store my open files. It might be a little overkill but it does the job decent enough. I mainly use Firefox + mozplugger + evince, but I also use the Chrome and Chromium browsers for different things including reading PDFs. Chrome has a simple PDF plugin that I like and its pretty fast, but Chromium doesn't have it because of licensing issues.

Reduce touchpad sensitivity on a Dell e6430

by Walter Rudametkin     linux feature

I find the touchpad on my laptop way to sensitive by default. To change it, I've found the following settings comfortable:

xinput set-prop "AlpsPS/2 ALPS DualPoint TouchPad" "Synaptics Finger" 18 18 18

I also have a wireless mouse that I sometimes use. It's way to sensitive. The following command makes it useable:

xinput set-prop "HP Wireless Optical Mobile Mouse" "Device Accel Adaptive Deceleration" 1.5