[manjaro] Firefox starts slowly
Problem After a system update, Firefox starts very slowly. Previously, there was no problem with it. Solution According to this forum post, there is a bug with xdg-desktop-portal-gnome. Workaround...
View Article[manjaro] my screen got accidentally zoomed in
Problem I have Manjaro with Xfce and suddenly my screen got zoomed in a bit. How to revert this change? Solution It seems that I accidentally used Alt+Mouse_Wheel_Up without noticing it. Just use...
View Articlebypass paywalls
Problem You visit a website (e.g. Medium.com) and you can’t read the whole article since it’s behind a paywall. But, of course, you don’t want to pay. What to do? Solution Use this browser extension:...
View Articlecheck a Linux file system
Problem My internal HDD behaved strangely. It made a noise of powering down, then a few seconds later it powered up again. Altogether, it was repeated 3 times within 10 seconds. After investigating...
View Articlevlc: start a video at a specific time
Problem Using VLC, I wanted to start a video at a specific time from the command line. Solution Use this: vlc --start-time=20 video.mp4 It will start the video at the 20th second. As can be seen, the...
View ArticleHow to open two files side by side?
Problem From the command-line, you want to open two files side by side. Solution With vim: $ vim -O file1 file2 With micro: $ micro -multiopen vsplit file1 file2 For micro, I got help here.
View ArticleSet a file or folder to be ignored by Dropbox
Problem You have a file/folder in your Dropbox folder that you want to keep there (on your local machine), but you don’t want to upload it to the cloud. That is, you want the Dropbox client to ignore...
View Articlevisualping.io
Problem There’s a website that you visit daily to check if there is something new. For instance, you are waiting for a new release of your favorite software and you want to try the new version as soon...
View ArticleGoodbye Vuze, hello qBittorrent
I was a long-time Vuze user but yesterday I switched to qBittorrent. I realized yesterday that Vuze is no longer maintained. The final release was in 2017, 6 years ago… Vuze worked well for me but it...
View Article[VS Code] remove trailing whitespaces upon save
Problem You use VS Code. When you save a file, you want to remove trailing whitespaces automatically. In addition, you also want to see the trailing whitespaces, for instance in red. Solution For this...
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