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| Comment | Post #284689 |
X-post: https://superuser.com/q/1683801/383391 If you post the same question on multiple sites, please include in *each* post a link to all others. This will safe people from working on a solution if your problem is already solved and ensure that future users with the same problem will have the best ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #284713 |
@Canina I'm very much looking forward to work with you! (more) |
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| Comment | Post #284713 |
@#8046 Thanks! I found the help article and am reading up on it. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #284713 |
@#8049 Yeah! That's great news! (more) |
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| Comment | Post #284713 |
@#8046 I would be honoured to help the site as temporary mod! https://www.greensboroughvets.com.au/images/northern-suburbs-veterinary/chess.jpg (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284713 |
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| Edit | Post #284713 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Who should the temporary moderators be? 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: - based on their activity they seem to have a wide area of interests, which should be helpful in a phase i... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #284592 |
Have a look if your viewer has some function to adjust the saturation, e.g. with preview.app: https://s3.amazonaws.com/storage.qpixel.artofcode.co.uk/4dT2j6Y75xVdmmNybQAsjMx1
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| Comment | Post #284577 |
@#53919 Glad to hear you could solve your problem :) (more) |
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| Comment | Post #284577 |
Are you sure `.viminfo` is a binary file? I'm not a vim user, but having a look at one lying around, it seems to be an ordinary text file. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #284508 |
If you don't mind using proprietary software, you could have a look at maple https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maple_(software) (more) |
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| Comment | Post #284388 |
thx! Voting works fine now :) (more) |
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| Comment | Post #284388 |
I'd upvote your answer, but a failed YouTube embed prevents me from doing so :) (more) |
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| Comment | Post #284373 |
That's definitely not the source of our problem. Voting on other posts works fine, it is just the one linked in the question which does not accept votes. If we weren't logged in, voting on other posts would hardly be possible. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #283666 |
@#8046 ... and thanks for the shoutout on twitter! Tom was so nice to forward it to me (I'm not on twitter myself) (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284014 |
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| Comment | Post #283666 |
@#8046 Glad to hear that this works for you! Thanks for the feedback! I'm using Lulu now for over a month (after my old program was no longer compatible with the current operation system) and so far I don't have any reason for complains (with is the ultimate aim for an application which runs in the b... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284014 |
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| Edit | Post #284014 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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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? screenshot of macOS window control buttons (I know BetterTouchTools can do that, but this is no longer free. And I also know that there are other methods to... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #283847 |
@#53919 Could you write a self-answer? I currently don't have it installed, so can't show any screenshots or anything. I just remember it because it was included in some of my previous linux distributions. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #283847 |
Maybe have a look at https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/AbiWord ?
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| Comment | Post #283845 |
(Just tested with the ddg validator and it found the comma immediately - really useful tool) (more) |
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| Comment | Post #283845 |
@叶 问 Oh, that's really good to know! Thanks for these tips!
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| Comment | Post #283845 |
That was the culprit! Thanks a lot for finding this nasty little comma! (And thanks for the link to jq - looks like a really useful tool!) (more) |
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| Edit | Post #283837 |
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| Edit | Post #283837 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Remapping backspace with Karabiner Elements I'm using Karabiner-Elements to remap some keys. I would like remap - `backspace` to forward delete - `option` + `backspace` to backward delete To do this I tried to write the following rule and place the `.json` file in `/Users//.config/karabiner/assets/complexmodifications`, but the r... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #283810 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Audio book player for macOS 11.5 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) - https://vox.rocks/mac-music-player/ (needs additional tool to be accessible via media buttons; of... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #283809 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Audio book player for macOS 11.5 I'm looking for an application to play my mp3 audio books on macOS 11.5. On an older system, I was using `ecoute`, but this does not seem to work under macOS 11.5. Required features: - resume the current playlist/book from the timestamp when I last closed the application - can be controlled ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #283766 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: How to unhide folder with macOS 11.5 Thanks a lot at @Quasímodo for pushing me in the right direction. The problem turned out to be an extended attribute set for this folder. To see if there are extended attributes, one can use ``` xattr Music ``` In my case, this gave `com.apple.FinderInfo`, so I removed it with ``` ... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #283747 |
(Funnily enough other folders like `Movies` carry the same attribute and there it is not a problem, but it works now, so not going to complain :) ) (more) |
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| Comment | Post #283747 |
Bingo! The problem was an extended attribute which I could remove with `xattr -d com.apple.FinderInfo Music` Thanks a lot for the hint! (more) |
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| Comment | Post #283747 |
@Moshi Oh, sorry! That was a typo. Fixed it in the question. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #283747 |
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| Edit | Post #283747 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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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 greyed out folder in Finder and it won't appear if I try to open files from applications which don't show hidden files. I tried to unhide the folder using ``` chflags nohid... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #283687 |
and please let us know which version of dark reader you are using. There have been a couple of bugs with the scrollbar in chrome, e.g. https://github.com/darkreader/darkreader/issues/1343 , but it looks as if they have been fixed in the current version (more) |
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| Comment | Post #283687 |
... does the problem only occur if you have the dark mode switched on or also during light mode?
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| Comment | Post #283687 |
What are you using as setting for the scroll bar https://powerusers.codidact.com/uploads/eDf2VQiXisVenzSVoAYj94Jk (the menu can be found under `see all option` -> `colors`)
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| Edit | Post #283666 |
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| Edit | Post #283666 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: How do I temporarily disconnect a Mac from the network without touching cables? If your goal is to only disconnect certain apps, you can use tools like - https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html (free and open source) - TCPBlock (free, for older MacOS) to block the network access of the particular app instead of disconnecting your whole computer. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #283660 |
To avoid getting stuck next week, you could try to permanently disconnect the app, e.g. via https://objective-see.com/products/lulu.html (more) |
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