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Foreground text is dull and difficult to read on VSCodium/VSCode
I recently installed a fresh Arch build with the XFCE4 Desktop Environment on a laptop and installed VS Codium. I've used VS Code on the same device but on Windows earlier and on other devices without ...
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R Never Loads History on Boot [duplicate]
I open R through xfce4-terminal -x R. When I do so, it has no history and never writes to my history file. I can manually save and load history just fine, e.g. by loadhistory(paste0(getwd() , "/....
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xfce4-terminal cannot be killed
From a Python program, I start xfce4-terminal as a subprocess. When calling .terminate(), xfce4-terminal is still there. Not nice. So I tried to kill it more abruptly - surprisingly, the corresponding ...
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wmctrl output in json format?
what utility or command/s can be used to transform the following output:
wmctrl -l -i -p
0x01000003 -1 3208 user xfce4-panel
0x01400013 -1 3217 user Desktop
0x00e00615 0 3212 user shared - ...
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Not Seeing Cursor Movement in Dockerized FastAPI with noVNC and pyautogui
I'm setting up a Docker container to host a FastAPI application that interacts with a virtual display via noVNC, using pyautogui to control the mouse cursor. The container runs successfully, and I can ...
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XFCE keyboard shortcut with ~ or $HOME equivalent
I would like to set a keyboard shortcut in linux Mint xfce with home path in command.
Example: Use CTR + ALT + n to launch:
x-terminal-emulator -e '/usr/bin/nvim ~/my_doc.txt'
But ~ is never replaced ...
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Can't import a builtin module python3.12
I can't import 'requests' and not because it's not installed but because in its import tree there is an unknown module 'six.moves' here is the code
admin-hox@Admin-PC:~/Documents/Projects/python/...
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Issue with some accented letters in Ubuntu 22.04 and Sublime Text 4
My problem is, when I try to write 'Ã', 'Ã', 'Ãģ', or 'Ã', these doesn't work. 'Ã' only put Sublime Text in full screen, 'Ã' something like this:
I don't know how to call it
'Ãą' only goes at the end of ...
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Creating a Thunar Custom Action to compare the md5sum of file against an md5 in the clipboard
Trying to make a Thunar Custom Action for XFCE that gets the md5sum of the file you right click and compares it to the md5 in the clipboard, after a pattern match is used to check if what is in the ...
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xfce 2nd panel underneath 1st panel that will lock to the border
On XFCE 4.16, I have a horizontal panel that stretches across the top of my screen that shows time zones, as in this picture:
I'm trying to add a 2nd panel underneath of it, and I'd like it to lock ...
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Script to open xfce4-terminal drop-down and then run a command in that dropped window
I am able to write a script which will open an xfce4-terminal window and run a program - I'm interested in using ranger - but I cannot see how to make this work in the drop-down window.
eg
#! /bin/...
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Can I use same software after switching Window Manager or Desktop Environment in Linux
Suppose I am using Kubuntu.
So I have Kwin as Window Manager and
KDE as Desktop Environment.
I use VSCode and other software.
I am switching to other Desktop Environment and Window Manager alongside ...
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Path name no longer gets updated in tabs of xfce4-terminal once you update $prompt
I'm using xfce4-terminal in XFCE and each tab by default shows the user/host/path name of that tab, which is what I want.
However, once I change $prompt (to customize it), this no longer happens. New ...
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Error when running print dialog from GTK 3.0
I have a small GTK 3.0 project that throws an error when displaying the print dialog. The offending statement is the following:
gint res = gtk_print_operation_run(operation, ...
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How to Pygtk WindowTypeHint to DOCK on XFCE and have it visible on the desktop
So I've run into an issue where whenever I set the WindowTypeHint to anything other than normal the window just disappears. I've verified the hint type with print.Below is my sample code
import gi
gi....