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Answer 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...
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almost 3 years ago
Edit Post #285411 Initial revision almost 3 years ago
Question 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...
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almost 3 years ago
Edit Post #285405 Post edited:
Add Windows tag; Fix typo.
almost 3 years ago
Comment Post #285408 I agree that would be the expected behavior in most vanilla setups, however if you click the link from a window in workspace 1 and the browser is at workspace 2, I wouldn't be surprised if the focus was kept on the window in workspace 1. The same if you assigned the browser to always open on workspac...
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almost 3 years ago
Suggested Edit Post #285405 Suggested edit:
Add Windows tag; Fix typo.
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helpful almost 3 years ago
Comment Post #285405 Preventing all new windows from stealing focus would solve this problem, but I don't think you would like that, right? So, could Windows figure whether the new Chrome windows was opened because you clicked a link on Skype, or because you directly invoked Chrome etc. to take a different focus policy d...
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almost 3 years ago
Edit Post #285382 Post edited:
Style clean-up; Add more representative tags.
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Comment Post #285383 Arguably, bitrate is incorrect, just as infectionrate, reactionrate etc. It's interesting that Microsoft decides to call it bitrate in the Video group, and bit rate in the audio group.
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Edit Post #285355 Post edited:
Remove 3 because it does not work for all colors
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Edit Post #285355 Initial revision almost 3 years ago
Answer 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.
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almost 3 years ago
Comment Post #284942 @#53196 As documented, `$XDG_CONFIG_HOME/gtk-3.0` (that amounts to `~/.config/gtk-3.0`) is also one of those places, and the fact that I can successfully change my theme there confirms it is a working location. Indeed, appending the warp setting to `/etc/gtk-3.0` also has no effect. But thanks for yo...
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almost 3 years ago
Edit Post #284942 Initial revision almost 3 years ago
Question 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 ...
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almost 3 years ago
Edit Post #284902 Initial revision about 3 years ago
Answer 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-...
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Answer 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 ...
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about 3 years ago
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Comment Post #284577 @#53305 It is not a text file, although some parts of it are plain text, so it is really not that difficult. `histdel` looks good indeed, but it works with regular expressions, which makes it a considerably more error-prone than editing `.viminfo` by hand.
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Comment Post #284581 @#53305 `file -i .viminfo` says: `.viminfo: application/octet-stream; charset=binary`. It is a binary file.
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about 3 years ago
Comment Post #284577 Thanks @#36377c, it is, but barely. With your hint I could write a solution. I guess we make a good team ;)
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about 3 years ago
Edit Post #284581 Initial revision about 3 years ago
Answer 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'...
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about 3 years ago
Edit Post #284577 Initial revision about 3 years ago
Question 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...
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about 3 years ago
Edit Post #284508 Post edited:
Matrix is a too much specific tag. Transfer comment to question.
about 3 years ago
Comment Post #284512 This is a very good option compared to Maxima when it comes to interactive sessions, since it allows one to use arrow keys properly and even has history of commands via the Readline library.
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Matrix is a too much specific tag. Transfer comment to question.
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Edit Post #284511 Initial revision about 3 years ago
Answer 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)...
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about 3 years ago
Comment Post #284508 The program should inverse a matrix. Alright, but does it need to be a browser program, or are you willing to install one? Windows, Linux, ...? Does it need to be free-software or free of charge?
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Comment Post #284354 Perhaps Zoom will cut it for you? [Not that I recommend it...](https://stallman.org/zoom.html)
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Remove subjective and indeterminable requirements.
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Comment Post #283847 @#8049 Thanks for bringing this up. I'd say word processor is a subcategory of text editors, since both can edit (pure) text. But I agree that the question seeks a word processor, since it's about coloring words. Edited.
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about 3 years ago
Edit Post #283871 Initial revision about 3 years ago
Answer 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.
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about 3 years ago
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Question 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...
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about 3 years ago
Edit Post #282184 Initial revision over 3 years ago
Question 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 ...
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