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Welcome to the Power Users community on Codidact!

Power Users is a Q&A site for questions about the usage of computer software and hardware. We are still a small site and would like to grow, so please consider joining our community. We are looking forward to your questions and answers; they are the building blocks of a repository of knowledge we are building together.

Posts by samcarter‭

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Q&A Get unique list of all files in a git repository, which I modified

I would like to get a list of all the files in a git repository which I modified. Take for example the repository https://github.com/josephwright/beamer . I tried the command git whatchanged --au...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A Disable input sources pop-up in macOS 14

Since the update to macOS 14.0 Sonoma, I every now and then get the following pop-up while typing. At first it is just the blue circle with "US": When I click on it, the white part with "DE" app...

1 answer  ·  posted 7mo ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A 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 and it won't appear if I try to open files from applications which don't show hidd...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A How to make background transparent and trim to content

I don't know if or if not this is possible from within grafx2, but your manual workflow can be simplified dramatically by using image magick. The following command will do all your steps at once an...

posted 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A 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? (I know BetterTouchTools can do that, but this is no lon...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Increase contrast between current and other tabs in Firefox

I also had the problem that I couldn't tell which tab was active -- in particular in dark mode they looked all the same. To fix this I'm using https://github.com/black7375/Firefox-UI-Fix This set...

posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Activate `Prefer tabs when opening documents` only for one application

In macOS 11.6, I can go to System Preferences->General and activate the Prefer tabs when opening documents option so that new windows are opened as new tabs. This setting will influence many app...

1 answer  ·  posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 2y ago by Alexei‭

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Q&A Activate `Prefer tabs when opening documents` only for one application

The setting can be changed on a per application basis with defaults write -app terminal AppleWindowTabbingMode -string always (replace terminal with the name of the app you want to change) Imp...

posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Meta Why did samcarter delete my post, simply because later other websites cross posted it?

I deleted the post because it was verbatim the same post as on several other sites, in particular it has been cross posted on https://www.reddit.com/r/teamviewer/comments/xr2row/after_disabling_...

posted 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Avoid font colour change in macOS 11 menu bar

(Caution: This method will not only influence the menu bar, but also the appearance of the dock etc.) A bit more drastic way is to switch off the transparency via System Preferences->Accessibil...

posted 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Meta 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....

1 answer  ·  posted 11mo ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 11mo ago by Wicket‭

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Q&A Move folder one level up on Thunderbird

You can drag & drop the folder into the parent folder:

posted 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Using "Print using system dialogue" as default in Firefox

Good news! With Firefox Nightly 102.0a1 there is now an option in about:config called print.prefer_system_dialog If this is set to true, the system print dialogue will be used automatically.

posted 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&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 xa...

posted 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Meta Is the mouse cursor in the Power User logo an accessibility problem?

Not really an accessibility issue, but this mouse pointer confused me to no end. I'm using macOS and this pointer looks exactly like my actual mouse pointer. I can't count how often I was looking f...

posted 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A How to add vertical line in the middle of two marks on image

If you have access to the source of the image, fix the code instead of messing with the image. This will be much more accurate and result in a higher quality result. You could add the lines via ...

posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A 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...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A 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/<...

1 answer  ·  posted 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 7mo ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A 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?

2 answers  ·  posted 1y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 1y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Hide server name tooltip on discord

If one hovers over a server name in discord, a speech bubble with the server name pops up: Is there any way to avoid this tooltip? Maybe a userscript or a user style? As this element is only vis...

0 answers  ·  posted 11mo ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 11mo ago by samcarter‭

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Meta 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.

posted 11mo ago by samcarter‭

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Q&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 ...

posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Avoid font colour change in macOS 11 menu bar

In macOS 11 the font colour of the menu bar automatically adapts to the darkness of the background image. On a light background it will show the text in black and on a dark background it will show ...

2 answers  ·  posted 2y ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 2y ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Centre tick labels in mermaid/gantt diagram

I'm using the note taking app obsidian. In one of my notes I have a mermaid/gantt diagram which looks like this: Source code: ```mermaid gantt tickInterval 1day axisFormat %d %b dateFormat...

1 answer  ·  posted 3mo ago by samcarter‭  ·  last activity 3mo ago by samcarter‭

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Q&A Hide badge from Firefox extension icon

The default icon of the Tunnelbear Firefox extension looks like this: I would like to hide the "Off" badge so that it looks like this: Following a similar process as in the answer https://pow...

0 answers  ·  posted 2mo ago by samcarter‭  ·  edited 2mo ago by samcarter‭

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