samcarter‭

On main meta, someone suggested to look into the possibility to merge our Power Users community with the community for Linux Systems to increase activity. (see https://meta.codidact.com/posts/28512...

3 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 4mo ago by ArrayBolt3‭

Personally I think this would be an excellent idea and we would benefit in many ways. as the post on main meta already mentions, both communities would benefit from more activity looking ...

posted 1y ago by samcarter‭

After a bit of experimentation, I think the \ in my search term is the problem. This acts as a shortcut for the "I'm feeling ducky" option. Workarounds: remove \ from the search term pla...

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

but isn't deletion overkill? As explained in comments, I deleted the post because the text is verbatim copied from two posts, which were published under the cc by-sa license, but you did not i...

posted 12mo ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 12mo ago by Canina‭

I'm using a zsh shell with zstyle ':completion:*' matcher-list 'm:{a-z}={A-Za-z}' autoload -Uz compinit && compinit to allow tab completion regardless of capitalisation, e.g. cd desk w...

1 answer  ·  posted 12mo ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by Alexei‭

I'd like Firefox to automatically use the "Print using the system dialogue" setting: In older versions, I could use print.tab_modal.enabled = false in about:config to automatically get the ...

2 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 8mo ago by Alexei‭

The url might not have been the best one to pick, but given that the question is verbatim the same as on other Q&A sites, I still think the presumption of a x-post is not so far fetched... T...

posted 11mo ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 10mo ago by samcarter‭

I intermediately have a problem with DuckDuckGo. Instead of showing me the list of search results it sometimes directly jumps to one of the search results, without giving me a chance to check if th...

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

I would like to suggest Canina‭. Although there aren't yet so many posts in which we could get to know how others handle things, I think they could be a good moderator for these reasons: base...

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

How do we want to handle cross-posts, e.g. posts which are completely copied verbatim from other sites? A couple of approaches I could think of: IF they fulfil the original site's license re...

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

To make the selection you get with the magic wand to follow your object more accurately, you can adjust the tool settings. Two of them are particular useful: Threshold, if the selection of th...

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

Background story: I would like to have a button in my touch bar which changes the illumination of the keyboard in small steps (what you normally get from pressing Illumination(up/down)+option+shif...

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

By default, the new tab page in Firefox has a lot of clutter in private mode. How to remove all this clutter?

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

Adding the following code block to one's userContent.css file will remove the clutter: /* removing clutter from new tab */ @-moz-document url("about:privatebrowsing") { .promo { displ...

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

How can I get a list of all file types for which a certain application is the default program? I know that I can get a list of all file types an application is capable of opening from the info.pli...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by samcarter‭