User contributions for Taifunbrowser
A user with 22 edits. Account created on 24 January 2017.
3 August 2021
- 20:2920:29, 3 August 2021 diff hist +281 Xdg-utils It appears that xdg-settings get default-url-scheme-handler <protocol> and xdg-mime query default x-scheme-handler/<protocol> are not the same thing, and in some cases both are necessary. Setting handler for x-scheme-handler/https is often necessary to have your custom web browser only hyper links from some X applications. Starts Tips and Tricks section.
9 November 2019
- 03:1903:19, 9 November 2019 diff hist +1 Fonts Tip -> Note
- 03:1803:18, 9 November 2019 diff hist +185 Fonts Well known conflicts between dejavu font and these emoji fonts, uninstalling dejavu is a reasonable solution that works for many (e.g. just use bitstream vera instead.)
23 October 2019
- 02:1102:11, 23 October 2019 diff hist +88 Android Debug Bridge Android version 8.1.0 requires one more menu, it's under Software info.
9 October 2019
- 20:2420:24, 9 October 2019 diff hist +253 GNOME/Document viewer On Ubuntu, the desktop file is evince.desktop while on Arch the naming convention is org.gnome.Evince.desktop, which can be confusing.
20 August 2019
- 01:5401:54, 20 August 2019 diff hist −1 m GNOME/Document viewer typo
- 01:5301:53, 20 August 2019 diff hist +501 GNOME/Document viewer Added some tips and tricks for using the recent annotation handling features of document viewer
4 July 2018
- 23:0323:03, 4 July 2018 diff hist +769 Talk:LXDE Start discussion of fake transparency in lxterminal
3 July 2018
- 22:0222:02, 3 July 2018 diff hist −1 m LXDE Whitespace
- 22:0122:01, 3 July 2018 diff hist +416 LXDE --enable-gtk3 configure option of lxterminal breaks fake transparency, add as tips or tricks to build from source without this option. Bug tracker link: https://sourceforge.net/p/lxde/bugs/910/
30 October 2017
- 17:5617:56, 30 October 2017 diff hist +287 Microcode Ubuntu doesn't come with a good way of updating intel-ucode for Live Cds, Arch's /boot/intel-ucode can often come to the rescue. This page shows up early on google searches for "Microcode" so other distro users might find this page when they're in a jamb.
18 October 2017
- 21:2721:27, 18 October 2017 diff hist +5 PulseAudio Minor, clarify that tip pertains to pasystray
- 21:2621:26, 18 October 2017 diff hist +262 PulseAudio There is a heated package war going on via pasystray* packages right now, try to give a correct summary of the current state of things in a TIP.
29 September 2017
- 22:3922:39, 29 September 2017 diff hist +342 NetworkManager Notifications hang in nm-applet when no notification daemon is installed in modern versions. See https://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=788313. --no-agent argument disables notifications.
27 September 2017
- 23:4023:40, 27 September 2017 diff hist +107 NetworkManager Recent versions of nm-applet hang badly if no notification server is installed.
21 May 2017
- 21:2921:29, 21 May 2017 diff hist +98 GnuPG pool.sks-keyservers.net seems to only work with latest gpg when specifying port 80
3 May 2017
- 01:2401:24, 3 May 2017 diff hist +135 GNOME/Document viewer Add disclaimer that increasing page-cache-size seriously ups the memory usage of the doc viewer when zooming in.
- 01:2101:21, 3 May 2017 diff hist 0 m GNOME/Document viewer →Zoom-in is limited
- 01:2001:20, 3 May 2017 diff hist +360 GNOME/Document viewer Document viewer zoom in is severely limited by default, a simple settings change allows you to zoom in quite far on large PDFs.
5 April 2017
- 00:3400:34, 5 April 2017 diff hist −4 m R Oops typo
- 00:3300:33, 5 April 2017 diff hist +231 R tk is listed as an optional dependency for the r package, but it is a hard dependency for install.packages if you use the built-in mirror selector (and most new users will.)
24 January 2017
- 23:4223:42, 24 January 2017 diff hist +223 HiDPI sun.java2d.uiScale environmental variable scales Swing/AWT GUIs