Change to ‘dark mode’ on GitHub
For instance, GitHub pages may be in dark mode when logged out and not when logged in. Sample GitHub page Change to dark mode When logged in, click on the profile picture in the upper right → Settings → Appearance …
Category: Applications (e.g. Thunderbird, Geany, UltraEdit, etc.)
Information and instruction of using software applications in particular context (e.g. having the main desktop environment on Linux instead of Windows).
Setting up the terminal/console program Alacritty to be usable (e.g., on ArcoLinux)
The default setup of the terminal program in ArcoLinux is not OK. In particular, the opacity makes it practically unusable. Here is a description of how to configure it to get it into a usable state. Introduction Under the surface, …
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Integration of Edit Overflow into Geany
Using Edit Overflow directly from Geany has turned out to be surprisingly useful. If one is unsure about the spelling of a word, select it and press Ctrl + 2. The word will either 1) Be unchanged (the spelling is correct). …
NoScript actually partially supports operation by the keyboard
That is, the new NoScript version after Firefox ESR. A single left click is needed, but then the rest can be done using the keyboard! The left click can also be done by a macro keyboard so mouse is only …
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Setting up Firefox on a new system
A number of configuration changes to Firefox are necessary on a new system before it is efficient and convenient to use. This post has step-by-step instructions for how I set up Firefox from scratch. The steps Remember the open tabs …
Taking a screenshot of a menu in Cinnamon (Linux)
The normal method of taking a screenshot in Linux (in Cinnamon, at least) does not work while selecting a menu command is in progress. Example from selecting menu “Sheet” → “Fill Cells” → “Fill Series” in LibreOffice: All keyboard input, …
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Krita on Linux as the equivalent to Windows’ Paint
Krita seems like a good replacement for Microsoft Paint. It is sufficiently intuitive to use, even without any exposure to it before. I use such programs primarily to crop and add frames to screenshots. Even for that relatively simple task, …
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Keyboard-only use of block/column mode in different text editors (Geany, Visual Studio, UltraEdit, Notepad++, Visual Studio Code, Vim, and Emacs)
Although it is often somewhat hidden, most text editors, except for the most basic ones, have a column mode (also known as block mode or visual mode) – to work on rectangular selections of text (including a width of zero). …
Building Emacs from source on Ubuntu 20.04 in 2020
Using the package manager in Ubuntu to install Emacs will result in some older version (version 26.3 on Ubuntu MATE 20.04 (Focal Fossa)). One way to get the latest version, currently 27.2 for the stable version, is to compile from …
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Get a feed URL from existing RSS feeds in Thunderbird
Very often RSS readers resist revealing the feed URLs once entered. That was the case for Firefox (the RSS reader was removed) and is also the case for Thunderbird (which has a decent feed reader). How-to It is very far …
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