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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...
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Edit Post #289276 Question reopened almost 2 years ago
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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?
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almost 2 years ago
Edit Post #289311 Initial revision almost 2 years ago
Question 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...
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almost 2 years ago
Comment Post #289053 Welcome to powerusers!
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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)
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almost 2 years 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.
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almost 2 years 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...
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almost 2 years ago
Edit Post #288559 Initial revision almost 2 years ago
Question 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...
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almost 2 years ago
Edit Post #288557 Initial revision almost 2 years ago
Answer 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.
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almost 2 years ago
Comment Post #288492 @#60977 Per community consensus, recommendation questions are on-topic https://powerusers.codidact.com/posts/284817/284902#answer-284902
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Comment Post #287684 @#60977 reaction added
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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...
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almost 2 years 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.
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Question 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...
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Answer 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...
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Question 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 ...
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almost 2 years 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
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about 2 years 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)
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about 2 years 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.
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about 2 years 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
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about 2 years 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...
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Answer 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...
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Answer 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 ...
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Question 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?
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Comment Post #288040 probably the same problem as in https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254648701
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Question Converting pdf to png with sips on macOS 13.3.1 Ventura
With pervious versions of macOS, I used `sips` to convert pdfs into pngs ``` /usr/bin/sips -s format png document.pdf --out document.png ``` In macOS 13.3.1 Ventura, this now gives an error: ``` /Users//Desktop/document.pdf Error: Cannot extract image from file. /Users//Desktop/docume...
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Edit Post #287978 Initial revision about 2 years ago
Answer A: Install Quarto extensions globally
This is probably not a lasting solution, but one can manually copy the individual folders of the extensions to ``` /share/extensions/quarto/ ``` Documents seem to be able to find them from there, but I doubt they will survive future updates. Update: Surprisingly, the added extension...
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Edit Post #287977 Initial revision about 2 years ago
Answer A: Disable automatic tlmgr updates in Quarto
I didn't yet find a clean solution, but as a dirty hack one can edit the `quarto.js` file and change the line ``` ``` to ``` ``` (this obviously won't survive any updates to Quarto)
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