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A: How to set the default time format in Linux Debian. You can define the `LCTIME` environment variable. In `/.profile` if you start you session in a login shell or else `/.bashrc`, put export LCTIME=ruRU.UTF-8 For example, % LCTIME=ruRU.UTF-8 date Сб 07 окт 2023 13:39:21 CEST will make the output format be in Russian, That o... (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
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A: Closing "unclear" questions > if someone else has been able to answer to the asker's satisfaction, it is patently false that the question is unclear. That is actually a flawed premise. The question "what is the price of bread in the bakery Good Bread?" is missing details because it doesn't specify which bread nor does it ... (more) |
— | 8 months ago |
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A: Vim: Can a different style be applied to a vim-terminal? All available "styles" are listed in `:help highlight-groups`. You will find that `hl-Terminal` is one of them. As an example, to make the Vim terminal background dark blue, use :hi Terminal ctermbg=darkblue guibg=darkblue `guibg` applies for Gvim and `ctermbg` for terminal Vim. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
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A: Is the site name "Power User" or "Power Users"? I think Power Users sounds better, but for an objective argument, and correct me if I'm wrong: It's easier to change a couple of image files than all textual occurrences of Power Users (besides the ones you mention, it's also used in the Help section), and particularly the URL itself which would r... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: How to make selection and overwrite from register all from ex mode If you know the normal mode key sequence to achieve the desired result, you can always feed it to the ex-mode `normal` command. Step 3 translates to :norm ggVGp See the documentation in `:help :norm`, ``` :normal {commands} :norm :normal Execute Normal mode commands {commands}. ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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Move folder one level up on Thunderbird I accidentally moved folder De under folder Laun in Thunderbird's folder side bar: De folder is a sub-folder of Laun, which is on the same level as Archive How can I move De back to the same level as Laun and Archive? If I drag it and release it just between the other two, nothing happens. ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: How to copy files preserving one directory up Assuming innermost directories are not empty, in any POSIX compliant system, find . -type d -links 2 -exec cp -r {} . \; In a GNU Linux system, a more performant alternative is find . -type d -links 2 -exec cp -rt . {} + since it only spawns an optimal number of `cp` process (a si... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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A: How to download all mail in Claws-mail Right-click the folder whose mail you want to download and click download messages in the context menu. This is absent from the manual (I suppose one is expected to discover it in the GUI) and there does not seem to be a way to do that for all folders in a single action, but it is good enough. An ... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
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How to download all mail in Claws-mail With Claws-mail, I want to be able to read all my mail even if offline, but the only way I know to download mail contents is by manually selecting it in the mail list. Additionally, navigating feels a bit sluggish because, as the manual says: > When using IMAP your folder list and your emails are ... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
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A: Control whether Firefox renders web pages in dark or light mode According to this support answer to "Home page is black", 1. Enter `about:config` in the address bar. 2. Edit the value of "layout.css.prefers-color-scheme.content-override" to ``` 0 to use a dark background 1 to use a light background 2 to follow the system GTK theme 3 to... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
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Control whether Firefox renders web pages in dark or light mode It has been reported that, if on a dark theme in KDE, Firefox automatically renders some websites that support it (e.g. Duckduckgo does, but Codidact doesn't) in dark mode. How can I better control how Firefox behaves in respect to that? (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
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A: Make left-click warp the scrollbar thumb position instead of paging down/up I found that the GTK theme I use also has a `settings.ini` file, which sets gtk-primary-button-warps-slider to false. I wouldn't expect it to take precedence over the user specific file, but it does. It is easy to edit a single file for your current theme; If you want to do it for all themes in on... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
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A: How do I copy an unencoded URL from my browser? Firefox 1. Enter `about:config` in the address bar. 2. Type "decodeurl" in the search field. 3. Set `browser.urlbar.decodeURLsOnCopy` to true. From the documentation: > browser.urlbar.decodeURLsOnCopy (boolean, default: false) > > Whether copying the entire URL from the location bar w... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
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A: How can I heighten the Security window? > If you hover over screen shots, you can clearly see the screen shot links to Microsoft. Since the question is now deleted, I cannot verify that claim, but assuming it is true: Do you see how that is not enough to qualify as attribution? It is hidden after all. Tooltips are meant for a descriptio... (more) |
— | about 2 years ago |
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A: Change colour of search markers in firefox scroll bar 1. Enter `about:config` in the address bar. 2. Search for `ui.textHighlightBackground` and change its color value — you can use the #RRGGBB format or generic names such as "green". Note this also changes the highlight color of the matched text and that Firefox applies a default transparency val... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Why my screen automatically zooms? How to stop it? This is triggered by holding Alt and rolling the scrollwheel (or, on a touchpad, moving two fingers vertically). Since you mention sticky keys: If they are on, the Alt keypress and the scroll event would not even need to occur simultaneously to trigger magnification. To disable magnification, ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Increase contrast between current and other tabs in Firefox Option 1: Choose a different theme Just go to Settings > Extensions and Themes (shortcut: Ctrl+Shift+A) and choose a suitable theme. Option 2: Use CSS to set the exact tab color Firefox UI defaults to your system theme, which you may want to stick to or to only make a small adjustment. In th... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Increase contrast between current and other tabs in Firefox In most recent Firefox versions I find it hard to distinguish the current tab at a glance, especially if the screen is set at low brightness. That is because the colors used for the current and other tabs are too similar. Tab bar I found a couple of extensions (1, 2, 3) but they are not monitor... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: How to dye all elements of an image (besides the transparent background) White? In the menu bar, select Colors. 1. Enter Hue-Chroma and maximize lightness; or 2. Enter Colorize and maximize lightness. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Make left-click warp the scrollbar thumb position instead of paging down/up I want the scrollbar to wrap to the pointer location when I click in an empty space (a.k.a. the trough or track) of it. What happens instead is that the scrollbar thumb just displaces the equivalent of a page down/up — tested on Firefox, GIMP and Abiword. Using Shift as a modifier while clicking ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: What should our take be on software recommendation questions? My opinion is: They do no harm and should be allowed. These are the reasons why I disagree with Olin Lathrop. > The answers go out of date fast. They become useless, even damaging, to the long term archive of knowledge. I don't think they go out of date any faster than other undoubtedly on-... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Open file from vifm in split view From the FAQ: > No, unfortunately it's not possible. Allowing this would require embedding terminal multiplexer into Vifm, which is kinda silly because it is a file manager. The compromise is to run Vifm inside terminal multiplexer and provide some integration between them (there is already some ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Delete command from Vim's command line history? Although `.viminfo` is technically a binary file, some parts of it are actually plain text. From `:help viminfo-read-write`, > The viminfo file itself can be edited by hand too, although we suggest you start with an existing one to get the format right. It is reasonably self-explanatory once you'... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Delete command from Vim's command line history? Sometimes I accidentally enter a command with a typo in Vim, e.g. `:e!fil` instead of `:e!file`. As a consequence, the incorrect command clutters the history until it is evicted from the binary `.viminfo` file. Can that incorrect entry be deleted from the command line history? How? `:hel... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Matrix solution software You could use Maxima. Some packages offer a GUI (Xmaxima or Wxmaxima, if I'm not mistaken), but you can use it in the terminal. Below, an interactive terminal Maxima session in which I define and invert the two-dimensional rotation matrix. ``` (%i3) m: matrix([cos(x), -sin(x)], [sin(x), cos(x)... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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A: Simple text editor for Linux with support for coloring individual words Thanks to Samcarter for suggesting Abiword! It does quite more than just coloring text, but it's much lighter than Libreoffice (I only had to install two dependencies). Files can be saved in various formats, such as Abiword, plain text, PDF, doc and Postscript. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Simple text editor for Linux with support for coloring individual words I'm looking for a text processor that can color specific words, just like Microsoft Wordpad can (select a word -> click the color button -> choose a color), but for a GNU/Linux system. I have considered Libreoffice but it is too big and requires installing 60 dependencies. Since all I want is to c... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
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Show the command argument in Tmux status-line This is the relevant fragment of my Tmux configuration file. set -g automatic-rename on set -g automatic-rename-format "#{panecurrentcommand}" set -g window-status-format "#I:#W" set -g window-status-current-format "#I:#W" With that, each ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
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A: Switch off automatic redirection to search result in DuckDuckGo You have already given the answer, and I have just found that it is documented under the Search Syntax section: > Use `\` to go to directly to the first search result. For example, `\futurama`. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |