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Welcome to the Power Users community on Codidact!

Power Users is a Q&A site for questions about the usage of computer software and hardware. We are still a small site and would like to grow, so please consider joining our community. We are looking forward to your questions and answers; they are the building blocks of a repository of knowledge we are building together.

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Q&A How to make background transparent and trim to content

Question Is there a way in grafx2 to make the background transparent and trim to content? This could be done during save. My process now when making images for documents is: Make image in gra...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by mcp‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A How to make background transparent and trim to content

I don't know if or if not this is possible from within grafx2, but your manual workflow can be simplified dramatically by using image magick. The following command will do all your steps at once an...

posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Vim: Can a different style be applied to a vim-terminal?

All available "styles" are listed in :help highlight-groups. You will find that hl-Terminal is one of them. As an example, to make the Vim terminal background dark blue, use :hi Terminal ctermbg...

posted 2y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Meta Why searching two terms the results page includes posts not including one of the terms?

From the search results page there is a link to the help page for search. This explains how to search for any word, only an exact phrase match, or all words in any order: plain search If you ...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A How can I, most effortlessly, whiten or white out yellow or brown Tint?

What you want to adjust is called the white balance. That's a very common issue, so I expect just about any image editing software has a feature to manipulate the white balance. I'm not familiar ...

posted 3y ago by Olin Lathrop‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Canina‭

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Q&A Why does my external Hard Drive keep squealing?

As soon as I plug in the USB cable to my desktop's USB port, and the external Hard Drive starts spinning, it keeps scritching. Please listen to my audio file. I bought it in 2015, but I plug it i...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by elgonzo‭

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Q&A How effortlessly can universities check where you logged in? What other IT details can they determine?

Accessing any server involves sending from a particular IP address to a particular IP address; the exchange of packets includes the sender so that the recipient can send packets back. An IP addres...

posted 3y ago by dsr‭

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Q&A Paid Windows 10 software for trimming videos (e.g. .mp4) from 2-10 GB?

I use Videopad. It works for me with Intel i5 10th generation (codename ice lake) and 8GB RAM. I have an integrated graphics card (not dedicated). My brother uses Vegas.

posted 3y ago by desbest‭  ·  edited 3y ago by desbest‭

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Q&A Free Windows 10 software for trimming videos (e.g. .mp4) from 2-10 GB?

Try using Kden Live which is made by KDE.

posted 3y ago by desbest‭

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Meta What should our take be on software recommendation questions?

My opinion is: They do no harm and should be allowed. These are the reasons why I disagree with Olin Lathrop. The answers go out of date fast. They become useless, even damaging, to the long te...

posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Meta Who should the temporary moderators be?

As we have set up communities here on the Codidact network we've been appointing temporary moderators. Ultimately, of course, we want each community to choose its own moderators; we've been doing ...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta "No associated Stack Exchange site from which to transfer your content?"

We have now removed that section on the profile edit page on communities that don't use imported posts. You should now see it only if you could successfully add a link.

posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Meta Unable to gave an upvote to Q or A

It's a failed YouTube embed. The site has a script to create YouTube embeds from youtube.com links, but fails on the link https://www.youtube.com/embed/?autohide=1&enablecastapi=0&html5=1&...

posted 3y ago by Moshi‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Why does Google Search Console shows data two days prior?

TL;DR TANSTAAFL Google is in business. They give a lot of stuff away for free. But much of that is in order to get things that people pay for, either directly (paid accounts for G Suite or whateve...

posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A How do I cut out a section of audio from a larger one, with VLC?

How do I cut out/trim/split a section of audio (or video) from a larger one, with VLC? I'm not trying to transcode, just extract a piece, ideally from the command-line.

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by JesseW‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by JesseW‭

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Q&A How do I cut out a section of audio from a larger one, with VLC?

The answer is pretty straightforward, just a few arguments: nvlc -I dummy input_file.mp3 --start-time 30 --stop-time 35 --sout file/mp3:output_file.mp3 vlc://quit where input_file.mp3 and output_...

posted 3y ago by JesseW‭  ·  edited 3y ago by JesseW‭

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Q&A Maximise instead of full screen window

Are there any free (and preferably open source) methods to make the green window button maximise the window instead of going full screen? (I know BetterTouchTools can do that, but this is no lon...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Simple text editor for Linux with support for coloring individual words

I'm looking for a text processor that can color specific words, just like Microsoft Wordpad can (select a word -> click the color button -> choose a color), but for a GNU/Linux system. I hav...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by Quasímodo‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A A term that describes frontend redirects

You can certainly send the user to a different page from the front end with a bit of JavaScript: location.href = 'https://example.com/new-page';

posted 3y ago by ArtOfCode‭

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Q&A Moved to a new OS version, didn't change project source, and now Datenstrom Yellow project won't build -- how do I debug this?

I've been using Datenstrom Yellow on a Mac running 0S 10.12.6 (Sierra) to build a personal web site (mostly a blog). The self-hosted test site (runs directly from source) and the build (generated s...

2 answers  ·  posted 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by Monica Cellio‭

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Q&A How to unhide folder with macOS 11.5

One of the folders in my home folder, Music, appears to be hidden. In the finder it appears slightly greyed out and it won't appear if I try to open files from applications which don't show hidd...

1 answer  ·  posted 3y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 3y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Why can't I type text above a table?

To enter a paragraph above a table, just hit Enter when your caret is at the start of the first cell of the table.

posted 3y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Why does my second LCD monitor overflow, when I try to maximize windows?

An LCD (unlike a typical CRT) has actual hardware pixels for the defined "native" resolution. If you set your video card (in this case, set your Windows display resolution) higher than the native r...

posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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Q&A Why do you need virtual machines in these examples?

Well - all these examples essentially are ways to spread out utilisation of "work" between PCs. To start with - "Cloud" servers essentially are VMs, running on managed hardware. While in many case...

posted 3y ago by Vorgon Spacecadet‭

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Q&A Anti-Twin's Byte by Byte“ vs. ”Compare images (pixels)"

I never heard of Anti-Twin. So I went to the web site and quickly found the answer: http://www.joerg-rosenthal.com/en/antitwin/similar.html As expected, "byte by byte" will look for an exact matc...

posted 3y ago by manassehkatz‭

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