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| Edit | Post #289841 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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Setting zoom level in Safari web apps One of the new features of macOS 14 Sonoma are Safari web apps which allow to treat webpages like an application. Is there a way to set the zoom level persistently in such apps? I can zoom in and out via the menu and keyboard shortcuts, but once I quit the app and reopen it, it again shows as 100%... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289833 | Initial revision | — | 7 months ago |
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A: Converting pdf to png with sips on macOS 13.3.1 Ventura The problem has been fixed in macOS 14.0. After upgrading to macOS Sonoma, one can again use `sips` to convert pdfs to pngs (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289602 |
Thank you for your answer! It worked perfectly! (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289591 |
Post edited: Trying to add some sentence structure |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289531 |
Thanks for your answer! A lot of useful information for further investigation! (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289529 | Initial revision | — | 8 months ago |
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Determine encoding of text I have some text files which think they are encoded in utf8: ``` file test.txt test.txt: Unicode text, UTF-8 text, with CRLF line terminators ``` (https://github.com/samcarter/shared/blob/main/test.txt ) However if I look at their content, I think they might in reality have some other enc... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289465 |
Do you have the linux subsystem for windows installed? If yes, can you try using git from there? (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289465 |
Not really a solution for your problem, but to temporarily speed up the process while one is out and about, one could use the tips from https://github.com/organicmaps/organicmaps/blob/master/docs/INSTALL.md#special-cases-options , in particular only cloning the branches one currently needs and only c... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289276 | Question reopened | — | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289276 | Question closed | — | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289276 |
Your question does not contain enough information to make a recommendation. How messed up is your current installation? Are you able to fix possible problems which can occur with the shortcut? (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #289311 | Initial revision | — | 9 months ago |
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Userscript or -style to disable responsiveness of website I like to arrange my browser on one site of my screen and have room for another application on the other half of the screen. This results in a width of my browser window of about 775 px. Many sites, Codidact included, will seriously squash their layout at such narrow widths, see e.g. the following... (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289053 |
Welcome to powerusers! (more) |
— | 9 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288847 |
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— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288566 |
(if tags get too detailed it will get harder for new users to organically discover which tags to use for their post) (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288566 |
Sounds mostly good. I wouldn't overdo it with tags about the account type, such information can be in the question body. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288565 |
I would tag them with two tags, one for the application and a separate tag for the operating system.
"Thanks to the screenshot, it's evident": please be careful with such conclusions, there is a user who will not show their own screenshots, but random pictures from other sites, which might or migh... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288559 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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Applications for "Edit Tags Ability" At the moment it is not yet possible to gain the "Edits Tags Ability" naturally (making suggested edits, which is a requirement to gain this ability, has not yet been implemented, see https://meta.codidact.com/posts/279616 for details). Until suggesting tag edits gets implemented, I suggest that u... (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288557 | Initial revision | — | 10 months ago |
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A: Add [windows-11] as a child of [windows] and add tag usage guidance I updated the tag hierarchy (also for the `macOS` tags) and added the proposed usage guidance to the `windows` tag. (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288492 |
@#60977 Per community consensus, recommendation questions are on-topic https://powerusers.codidact.com/posts/284817/284902#answer-284902 (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #287684 |
@#60977 reaction added (more) |
— | 10 months ago |
| Comment | Post #281904 |
About your comment about overleaf: I suggest to redirect LaTeX questions to Codidact's sister project TopAnswers. It has an active community specifically about LaTeX and friends ( https://topanswers.xyz/tex -- full disclosure: I'm a active user of this site). We also have an informal agreement with s... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288386 |
Thanks for your comment! I tried following that. For me, this brought nothing obvious up. I added the html of one of the server buttons to the question. (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288386 |
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— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288386 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
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Hide server name tooltip on discord If one hovers over a server name in discord, a speech bubble with the server name pops up: Screenshot of the discord server list with the tooltip bubble visible Is there any way to avoid this tooltip? Maybe a userscript or a user style? As this element is only visible on mouse hover, I'm having... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288207 |
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— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288207 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
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A: Remove extension icon from Firefox url bar TL;DR Turns out the correct name is ``` #pageAction-urlbar-metricationdeltamikecharlie { display: none !important; } ``` Long version: How to find the name? There is actually a nice guide at https://firefox-source-docs.mozilla.org/devtools-user/browsertoolbox/index.html To sum... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288206 |
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— | 11 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288206 | Initial revision | — | 11 months ago |
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Remove extension icon from Firefox url bar I'm using the firefox extension metrication. I only ever use it via its entry in the context menu, therefore I would like to remove its icon from the url bar to gain more space: screenshot of the firefox url bar with the icon of the metrication extension highlighted I tried the suggestion from ... (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288157 |
x-post https://superuser.com/questions/1786221/why-did-windows-10-automatically-open-1-word-document-but-not-2-others-from-th (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288157 |
Your question makes no sense without following external links. Please make your question self-sustained: Describe in your own words what exactly you did (don't plagiarize other sites while adding the necessary information) (more) |
— | 11 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288127 |
@#53023 Thanks for your update! Unfortunately I don't have access to an Arch Linux installation myself, I hope some linux users will come across your question and maybe know a solution. (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288127 |
Just in case you'd like to automate your point 3., you could use command line tools like `pdfjam` to resize the pdf (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288127 |
Can you please add your operating system? If I open the print dialogue in LibreOffice, I have an "Scale to fit paper size" option, but I suspect this might be inherited from the print dialogue of the macOS https://powerusers.codidact.com/uploads/t41l1ulp3a8bznexw7x607oej3z0 .... so I think knowing yo... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #288057 |
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— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288057 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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A: Launching hidden application at login under macOS 13 Ventura Another possible approach is to create a helper app which opens an app without opening a window. I used platypus to create a simple app which will execute a shell script. The settings used for the app were the following: Screenshot of the main Platypus window with "None" selected for the int... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288056 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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A: Launching hidden application at login under macOS 13 Ventura Based on the post https://droidwin.com/how-to-hide-an-app-at-launch-on-mac-ventura/ an alternative approach could be to use a launch agent. To do this, create a file `vienna.LaunchAtLogin.plist` (replace `vienna` with the name of the application you'd like to start) and copy the following content ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #288055 | Initial revision | — | about 1 year ago |
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Launching hidden application at login under macOS 13 Ventura Apple removed the `hide` option for login items in macOS 13 Ventura. Are there any alternative ways to launch an application at login without opening a window? (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |