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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) |
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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) |
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x-post https://superuser.com/questions/1786221/why-did-windows-10-automatically-open-1-word-document-but-not-2-others-from-th (more) |
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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) |
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@#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) |
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Just in case you'd like to automate your point 3., you could use command line tools like `pdfjam` to resize the pdf (more) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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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) |
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probably the same problem as in https://discussions.apple.com/thread/254648701 (more) |
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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... (more) |
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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... (more) |
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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) (more) |
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Disable automatic tlmgr updates in Quarto Let's assume one has a Quarto document which does not compile because of an error in the latex code, e.g. here a simply typo in a macro name: ``` format: pdf test\newlin test ``` Quarto will first try to compile this document and when it notices the error it will then try to run `t... (more) |
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A: Circulate through spaces on macOS 11 Another approach is to use Karabiner-Elements. As a first step, I created to executable shell scripts, which will switch to the previous/next space using the handy tool SpaceInfo `Spaceprev`: ``` #!/bin/zsh export CurrentSpace=$(/Applications/SpaceInfo/SpaceInfo --active-space) export All... (more) |
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A: Circulate through spaces on macOS 11 One possibility is to use Hammerspoon with the following configuration: ``` hs.hotkey.bind({ "cmd" }, "Right", function() local NextSpace = 1 for k, v in pairs(hs.spaces.allSpaces()[hs.screen.mainScreen():getUUID()]) do if v == hs.spaces.focusedSpace() then NextSpa... (more) |
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Circulate through spaces on macOS 11 Back in the days of OSX 10.6 Snow Leopard, one could circulate from the last space to the first space, e.g. if one was on the last space and used the keyboard shortcut to go to the next space, it would bring you to the first space. I asked a similar question for Mavericks at https://apple.stackexc... (more) |
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Install Quarto extensions globally Is there a way to install Quarto extensions globally? If I follow the installation instruction from https://quarto.org/docs/extensions/managing.html and e.g. use ``` quarto add quarto-ext/fontawesome ``` to install an extension, I have to do this from the same folder as my current project... (more) |
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