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| Edit | Post #293870 | Initial revision | — | 11 days ago |
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A: Starting Genymotion virtual device from the command line 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 | UUID | Name +-----------------+------------------------------... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293869 | Initial revision | — | 11 days ago |
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Starting Genymotion virtual device from the command line I'm using Genymotion to emulate an android device on macOS. Is there a way to start the virtual device from the command line instead of going through the gui? (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293868 | Initial revision | — | 11 days ago |
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Permanently toggle off side bar in Genymotion 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 session. Screenshot of the right hand toolbar of the genymotion player Is there a way to permane... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293826 | Question closed | — | 16 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293803 |
How does your question title and body fit together? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #293803 |
x-post https://serverfault.com/questions/1179275/what-does-the-warning-when-you-create-this-deployment-the-resource-change-you (more) |
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| Comment | Post #290276 |
x-post https://apple.stackexchange.com/q/465242/57046 (more) |
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| Comment | Post #293591 |
x-post https://superuser.com/questions/1885749/why-does-copying-an-image-from-chrome-and-pasting-it-into-ms-paint-reduce-its-qu (more) |
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| Comment | Post #293590 |
x-post https://superuser.com/questions/1886174/why-does-windows-task-manager-shows-100-for-the-gpu-utilization-for-one-process (more) |
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| Comment | Post #293589 |
X-post https://superuser.com/questions/1886700/why-does-this-powershell-command-first-request-writing-all-bytes-before-uploadin . If you cross-post the same question on multiple sites, please include links to all other versions of the question in every post, even in the original one. X-posting withou... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293528 |
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| Edit | Post #293528 | Initial revision | — | 2 months ago |
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A: Is there any way to make switching to specific tabs with the keyboard work in Firefox? The firefox keyboard shortcuts to navigate tabs depend on the operating system. An overview can be found at https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-perform-firefox-tasks-quickly?redirectslug=Keyboard+shortcuts&redirectlocale=en-US#wwindows-tabs (the OS and firefox version can be selec... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #293527 |
sure, I'm going to write one up.
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| Comment | Post #293527 |
This overview https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/keyboard-shortcuts-perform-firefox-tasks-quickly?redirectslug=Keyboard+shortcuts&redirectlocale=en-US#w_windows-tabs lists the linux equivalent as `alt` + `1` etc. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #293527 |
With firefox on mac, I can navigate tabs with `cmd` + `1` etc. to go to the nth tab and `cmd` + `9` for the last tab. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293257 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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Remove "Erase Disk..." option from right-click context menu in macOS 15 Since macOS 15, the right-click context menu for removable volumes has an entry "Erase Disk..." right next to the "Eject" entry: Screenshot of the right-click context menu showing the option "Erase Disk..." right next to the option "Eject " Is there any way to remove the erase option from the c... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #293251 |
... wondering if running the additional app will actually consume more energy than saved by the "low power" mode. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293251 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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A: Avoid colour change for battery indicator in macOS 15 during low power mode As a workaround, one can use the open source application "stats" (https://github.com/exelban/stats) as a replacement for the mac battery indicator: screenshot of the battery indicator. The outline is in black and current battery level is indicated by a partial black filling. The background of the ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293250 |
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| Edit | Post #293250 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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Avoid colour change for battery indicator in macOS 15 during low power mode In previous versions of macOS, the battery indicator in the menu bar was coloured in either black or white (depending in the wallpaper): screenshot of the battery indicator. The outline is in black and current battery level is indicated by a partial black filling. The background of the screenshot ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293020 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
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A: Change position of subtitles in yt-dlp If one uses the `--exec` argument, one can access the name of the `.mp4` file via `%(filepath)s` and `%(requestedsubtitles.en.filepath)s` will give the filename of the subtitles: ``` yt-dlp -f 160 --write-subs --write-auto-subs --sub-langs en --embed-subs "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC91ZW... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #293019 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
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Change position of subtitles in yt-dlp I would like to change the vertical position of subtitles in videos downloaded with yt-dlp. If I use ``` yt-dlp -f 160 --write-subs --write-auto-subs --sub-langs en --embed-subs "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EC91ZWUvfEo" ``` the subtitles will be placed at the very bottom of the video:... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #292790 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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A: Fonts That Support the Creative Commons Unicode Symbols You could use the site https://www.fileformat.info to find fonts which contain a specific character. For example for the creative commons logo: https://www.fileformat.info/info/unicode/char/1F16D/fontsupport.htm the site will suggest these four fonts which contain the symbol: Table with the ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #292769 |
Yes, by default it will only show fonts which have all the specified glyphs. One can use `albatross --or a b` to search for each glyph individually. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #292769 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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A: Fonts That Support the Creative Commons Unicode Symbols You can use the command line tool `albatross` (https://gitlab.com/islandoftex/albatross/) to find out which of the fonts you already have on your system, contain a given symbol. For example, on my system: ``` albatross 🅭 🄍 🅯 🄎 🄏 .---.-.| | |--.---.-.| |.----.-----.---... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #292617 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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A: Setting zoom level in Safari web apps This problem seems to have been solved in Safari 18.0 (19619.1.26.111.10) (more) |
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| Comment | Post #292445 |
Revenge for all my comments deleted there? :P (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292445 |
Welcome to powerusers! (more) |
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| Edit | Post #290639 |
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| Comment | Post #292370 |
@#8046 Some of these domains are probably not the biggest ones in existence - I don't think I've ever come across a site from the Cook Islands :) (more) |
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| Comment | Post #292370 |
@#8046 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/.co_(second-level_domain) (more) |
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| Comment | Post #292329 |
Maybe try if you can change the available zoom levels with `about:config->toolkit.zoomManager.zoomValues` (more) |
— | 9 months ago |