I just found that I could resize all windows by pressing Alt+Right Click and totally do away with the annoying practice of carefully hovering over window margins and waiting for the resize arrow to appear.
Sweet!
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08/15/2011 21:52 #54952
Niftay linux Alt+Right Click ResizeCategory: linux
08/15/2011 20:35 #54951
Crunchbang Take 2Category: linux
Conky's gone.
So has the upper bar with active windows.
Instead the right side panel has everything I need. The rest is via the right click menu.
So has the upper bar with active windows.
Instead the right side panel has everything I need. The rest is via the right click menu.
tinypliny - 08/15/11 23:45
heh. it helps me relax and concentrate :)
heh. it helps me relax and concentrate :)
uncutsaniflush - 08/15/11 23:00
I once had an all-black theme with all-black fonts and all-black background. It was fun for a while. I had to remember keystrokes and keybindings to do anything. Nihilism on the desktop only exists if you believe in it.
PS I know yr desktop really isn't all black, there is stuff on the right hand side i think.
I once had an all-black theme with all-black fonts and all-black background. It was fun for a while. I had to remember keystrokes and keybindings to do anything. Nihilism on the desktop only exists if you believe in it.
PS I know yr desktop really isn't all black, there is stuff on the right hand side i think.
08/15/2011 20:07 #54950
Cooking simpleCategory: eating in
I have decided to cook with fewer ingredients going forward. Not only does it make it simpler to cook, it also brings out the flavour of each component.
This fun stir-fry salad had:
-- Tofu
-- Bell peppers
-- Raw onions
-- Tomatoes
Seasoned with:
-- Dried red chillies
-- Cumin
-- Olive oil
-- Basil
This fun stir-fry salad had:
-- Tofu
-- Bell peppers
-- Raw onions
-- Tomatoes
Seasoned with:
-- Dried red chillies
-- Cumin
-- Olive oil
-- Basil
metalpeter - 08/16/11 17:59
Didn't know people stir fried only Vegetables
Didn't know people stir fried only Vegetables
paul - 08/16/11 01:22
Thats a great picture.
Thats a great picture.
08/15/2011 15:38 #54949
PDF on LinuxCategory: linux
So there are some amazing tools on linux for pdf manipulation and I am super glad that none of them involve Adobe's evil little tools.
If you want to cut out pages or manipulate PDFs in any way, there is no other tool as powerful as pdftk
It's a command line-heavy utility but it does its job pretty well. I am trying to learn small pdftk commands on an as-and-when-needed basis. Desperation is truly the mother of learning.
For annotation, no utility comes even close to the Wine + PDF Xchange viewer combo.
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PS: I just found out there is a gui for pdftk called... gui_pdftk but unfortunately, I have not been successful in simply deleting a page from a PDF using the gui. Using command line at least does everything reliably.
If you want to cut out pages or manipulate PDFs in any way, there is no other tool as powerful as pdftk
sudo apt-get install pdftk
It's a command line-heavy utility but it does its job pretty well. I am trying to learn small pdftk commands on an as-and-when-needed basis. Desperation is truly the mother of learning.
For annotation, no utility comes even close to the Wine + PDF Xchange viewer combo.
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PS: I just found out there is a gui for pdftk called... gui_pdftk
but unfortunately, I have not been successful in simply deleting a page from a PDF using the gui. Using command line at least does everything reliably.paul - 08/15/11 17:54
I use pdftotext a lot too. It extracts the text content from PDFs. Could be useful if you were building your own database of PDFs.
I use pdftotext a lot too. It extracts the text content from PDFs. Could be useful if you were building your own database of PDFs.
I really like that too! But it backfires on me sometimes because the middle click = scroll for chrome and when I am on google docs, it keeps pasting what I have on the doc!
My favorite new trick is to select some text in one app and then middle mouse click in another to copy and paste in one step with no right clicks and no copy buffer.