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I have a raster logo image with transparent background which I edit with GIMP and which is comprised of two primary elements: A drawing A text under the drawing The text is "justified" under...
These steps from UC Davis don't picture or mention the number pad on the far right hand side of computer keyboards. If Microsoft Keyboard Layout Creator can't edit numeric keypads, please recommen...
This answer is to the question as originally asked, not what it was edited to several days after this answer was written. How do I halt this, so that Windows stays focussed on Skype? Don't clic...
I've used Firefox for approximately 10 years, but I've never seen this before! Please see below. I was working under the premise (very unlikely true, but still) that interacting with that ico...
I'm starting a small site with some online tools. Tried to include Google Adsense but I initially got rejected because the site was still on construction. Yet I've seen in the forums that they are...
I found that the GTK theme I use also has a settings.ini file, which sets gtk-primary-button-warps-slider to false. I wouldn't expect it to take precedence over the user specific file, but it does....
Based on seeing other website auth and metadata protocols only, I'm expecting this to be of the form <head> ... <meta rel="me" href="https://mastodon..."> ... </head> . When I fe...
One great power of git bisect, and bisection search in general, is that automation is often not required. If you the bug loiters among 128 commits, you should only need seven tests to find it. It'...
Psi+ has a PPA with a version that doesn't crash. Its OMEMO plugin does indeed work with siacs clients. Unfortunately, Psi+ does not have an icon pack that matches KDE Plasma, making the UI consis...
I've known for a while that Gmail sometimes silently drops incoming email -- it doesn't bounce or go to the spam folder; it just disappears. [...] How can I debug (and ideally fix) this problem?...
History of text changes is highly compressible This is why Git is good for source code and other text. You can make hundreds of changes to one file and git gc will compact that down by an astonish...
I see that has:attachment return some thread that don't have a paper clip icon on it in Gmail, e.g.: Why? Crossposts: https://webapps.stackexchange.com/q/181180/18147 https://redd.it/1k8r...
I'm using Genymotion to emulate an android device on macOS. After the device has started, I can toggle the right hand sidebar with the shortcut cmd+T. However this only persists for the current se...
First get a list of all the available devices: /Applications/Genymotion.app/Contents/MacOS/gmtool admin list This will generate an output like this: State | ADB Serial | ...
I installed Teams on my desktop. Whenever I click it, this error message appears. Why? We're sorry—we've run into an issue. Error code - caa70004 There's a more permanent way to sign in to Mic...
After a lot of trial and error, I finally found cog which wonderfully satisfies my wish list. There are two other players which came close: https://iina.io/ (needs to keep a window open) ...
I use Windows 10. How do I add the yellow partition to the red one, to increase the size of red? Green (833 GB) must be left alone, and must not be changed or moved.
Recently, I noticed there's some problem with my Wireless Driver. I had discussed with a computer technician (whom I call Engineer) he said that it will cost too much to replace Wireless driver. So...
I have a custom spreadsheet viewer in Vim that splits the headers into a top pane and the rest into a bottom pane. I bind horizontal scrolling so that scrolling right keeps the headers above the co...
Pale Moon Pale moon is technically a Firefox based browser, but it has diverged considerably over the years. It was originally a fork of an old version and has retained many "good old" FF features...
As a quick and very dirty hack, one could stick some invisible characters, like em-spaces (U+2003), in front of the date. ```mermaid gantt tickInterval 1day axisFormat ...
On Fairphone 5, Android 13: Uninstalled Facebook app. Uninstalled Messenger app. Installed Facebook app. Installed Messenger app. Logged in to Facebook app. Logged in to Messenger app. Mes...
Facebook app is showing the badge counter for Messenger wrongly, I have no unread messages, how do I remove the unread message badge? I tried looking for how to clear cache but that wasn't so easy...
I finally found a solution thanks to @bogdanw at https://stackoverflow.com/a/77256214/2777074 The idea is to create a file called UIKit.plist with the content: <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UT...
How do I make animated dotted lines ("marching ants") in images on my web page? Some people have showed me diagrams online where the lines are animated dotted lines / animated dashed lines, where ...
