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Q&A Circulate through spaces on macOS 11

One possibility is to use Hammerspoon with the following configuration: hs.hotkey.bind({ "cmd" }, "Right", function() local NextSpace = 1 for k, v in pairs(hs.spaces.allSpaces()[hs.scree...

posted 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Circulate through spaces on macOS 11

Back in the days of OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard, one could circulate from the last space to the first space, e.g. if one was on the last space and used the keyboard shortcut to go to the next space, it w...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Meta Do we want an update for our logo?

This is what the current logo looks like on a phone screen in portrait mode: Instead of a single line of text, would it be worth considering a logo over two lines, similar to the Meta logo? A...

posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  edited 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Meta Do we want an update for our logo?

Not a logo professional or active member of this community, so take all these with a grain of salt, but some ideas I see are: Get rid of the "button" icons, they aren't very easy to see and add ...

posted 1y ago by Hosch250‭

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Q&A Install Quarto extensions globally

Is there a way to install Quarto extensions globally? If I follow the installation instruction from https://quarto.org/docs/extensions/managing.html and e.g. use quarto add quarto-ext/fontawesome...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 8mo ago by samcarter‭

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Meta Do we want an update for our logo?

"Why an update?" you might ask. The current logo looks nice, but there are a couple of problems which could be solved with an updated logo: Is the site name "Power User" or "Power Users"? Is th...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by trichoplax‭

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Q&A Programmatically changing the keyboard illumination in small steps

Instead of trying to build my own touch bar, I'm now using Karabiner Elements to remap the existing keys on the touchbar to the desired behaviour. The following configuration will remap the screen...

posted 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A How can I click inside a gnarled window?

I need to install BCUninstaller. But I can't click to pick the options inside, OR the maximize button on the upper right that's greyed out. No other window is gnarled like this on my desktop, which...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by TextKit‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by jimbobmcgee‭

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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 1y ago by Quasímodo‭

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

I often open an terminal within vim via: :vert term. The terminal opens on the right side with the same style (background and foreground colors) as my vim style. Is it possible to change the styl...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by CodeFarmer‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by Quasímodo‭

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Q&A Change indent width in scad-mode

MWE translate() square(); Problem I'd like to set the number of spaces per indent in scad-mode to 2. When I press tab on the second line in the MWE, it should result in: translate() ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by mcp‭  ·  edited 1y ago by mcp‭

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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 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 1y ago by samcarter‭

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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 1y ago by mcp‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Permanently disable motivational messages and animations on duolingo.com

The problem is that these two settings are only stored in the local storage of the browser and not transmitted to duolingo. This means that when the local storage is cleared for some reason (for me...

posted 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Permanently disable motivational messages and animations on duolingo.com

I'm using firefox to access duolingo. The website offers settings to disable motivational messages and animations. However the settings frequently turn themselves back on automatically. Is there...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by Wicket‭

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Q&A How can I record merely heads in a video call?

To save Hard Drive space, how can I record merely the green rectangles below containing the heads of my family? I waste bytes if I record the areas crossed out in orange, like the backgrounds and ...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 1y ago by TextKit‭

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Q&A Adding option to pandoc call from RStudio

I assumed that RStudio would get the path from somewhere, rather than it being hardcoded, and based on the response in a comment thread, that somewhere is RSTUDIO_PANDOC in .Rprofile. So you shoul...

posted 1y ago by Canina‭

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Meta Is the site name "Power User" or "Power Users"?

I think Power Users sounds better, but for an objective argument, and correct me if I'm wrong: It's easier to change a couple of image files than all textual occurrences of Power Users (besides th...

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

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Q&A Why doesn't permanently deleting emails dwindle the .ost's size, absent new emails?

My old backup email account never receives incoming emails. In Microsoft Outlook, I deleted at least 50 emails in the Inbox and Sent Items, then emptied "Deleted Items", but the .ost for this email...

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by TextKit‭  ·  edited 1y ago by TextKit‭

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Meta Is the site name "Power User" or "Power Users"?

The URL of the site shows "powerusers", matching the drop down list of sites at the top right of the page, and the list of sites in the page footer, which both say "Power Users" (plural). However, ...

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by trichoplax‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by Wicket‭

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Meta Is the mouse cursor in the Power User logo an accessibility problem?

Not really an accessibility issue, but this mouse pointer confused me to no end. I'm using macOS and this pointer looks exactly like my actual mouse pointer. I can't count how often I was looking f...

posted 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Meta Is the mouse cursor in the Power User logo an accessibility problem?

I noticed when arriving on the Power User site that my mouse cursor looks very similar in size, shape, and colour to the one in the logo: This doesn't present a problem for me personally (apart ...

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

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Q&A Native Folder Synchronization on Android

What technically (or contractually) prevents cloud storage providers from implementing native support for folder synchronization in their Android apps?

0 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by AZeed‭  ·  reopened 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A How to make selection and overwrite from register all from ex mode

If you know the normal mode key sequence to achieve the desired result, you can always feed it to the ex-mode normal command. Step 3 translates to :norm ggVGp See the documentation in :help :n...

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

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Q&A Adding option to pandoc call from RStudio

This is admittedly rather ugly, but you could move the PANDOC program to elsewhere, and replace it with your own script. That script can add command line arguments, then run the real PANDOC. One ...

posted 1y ago by Olin Lathrop‭

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