Comment by Marco on How do I delete my commands quickly?
@lyrae For me it works perfectly in rxvt, though not in xterm. And it only works if set -o emacs is set.
View ArticleComment by Marco on How to reverse colors for the current window in gnome shell?
“Making the windows or the screen negative is, unfortunately, a Compiz feature.” This is not true. Inverting using xcalib -invert -alter works perfectly and I don't use compiz.
View ArticleComment by Marco on How do I install Ubuntu 12 on a 64bit PC with UEFI and...
Related: What should I do before dual-booting Windows 7 and Debian on EFI?
View ArticleComment by Marco on Is it possible to temporarily disable notifications?
You need root access to do this. That's not very practical.
View ArticleComment by Marco on Reducing power consumption of second HDD
I am using sdparm --command=stop <device> to spin down the drive. Where would I need to configure that?
View ArticleComment by Marco on What are the available browsers for 128 MB of RAM PC?
@BrendanLong It might not be significantly smaller. But the point is that one can use Midori to fit within 128 MiB if not too many pages are loaded simultaneously. Loading one page in firefox already...
View ArticleComment by Marco on What are the available browsers for 128 MB of RAM PC?
Text based browsers are great as a secondary browser. But many pages simply don't work (which is often due to bugs in the pages). Depending on what pages you are browsing it might work, but often it is...
View ArticleComment by Marco on Lenovo Thinkpad X1 Carbon support
You can have a look at System 76, they ship Ubuntu by default and they guarantee that everything is working.
View ArticleComment by Marco on How to copy from a pdf to another pdf in ubuntu/linux
Pasting into gimp will rasterize the image and you will lose the vector character of the image. This solution is only feasible if the PDF already is rasterized. If it contains text, for instance, it...
View ArticleComment by Marco on Gvim always starts in the home directory!
You can use set autochdir to always change the directory to the directory of the currently edited file. But this might break some plugins.
View ArticleComment by Marco on How to set up Ubuntu as wireless accesspoint?
See my answer to “How to turn my Linux netbook into WiFi AP”
View ArticleComment by Marco on How to set up Ubuntu as wireless accesspoint?
The page is a 404. -1 from me. If you had summed up the info contained in the linke your answer would be still valid.
View ArticleAnswer by Marco for Open Source Command Line Tools to Remove Hyperlinks in PDFs?
When I extract the pages from a PDF with pdftk and assemble them again afterwards the links are gone. Example:mkdir tempcd temppdftk ../FileWithLinks.pdf burstpdftk *.pdf cat output...
View ArticleAnswer by Marco for post installation /home partition
Sure. You can use gparted to create a new partition schema. You can change the size of partitions and create new ones. Make sure you backup your data before just in case something goes wrong.Don't...
View ArticleAnswer by Marco for Need to use sudo -s for make command depending on Ubuntu...
The make command is supposed to compile the source code. That's a task that should not require any administrative privileges. For system wide installation root privileges are necessary. This means in...
View ArticleAnswer by Marco for read pdf document properties from terminal as seen in...
You can use the program pdfinfo from the package poppler-utils. For font information you can use pdffonts from the same package.
View ArticleAnswer by Marco for Can't copy from clipboard to any Java applet
The solution provided by brendan works, but it requires root access. To fix this issue with user rights, copy the file /etc/java-7-openjdk/security/java.policy to $HOME/.java/ and change the following...
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Answer by Marco for How to reverse colors for the current window in gnome shell?
To invert the entire screen you can use the program xcalib:xcalib -invert -alterFrom the xcalib man pagexcalib loads 'vcgt'-tag of ICC profiles to the X-server using the XVidMode Extension in order to...
View ArticleAnswer by Marco for biblatex package recommends biber (>= 0.9), but it...
How can Ubuntu recommend something that isn't in the repository?I would agree, if it would be a dependency. But a recommendation is not that strong that it breaks something.Biber is not included,...
View ArticleAnswer by Marco for Is there a command line tool to bulk extract images from...
The program pdfimages from the package poppler-utils might be what you are looking for. From the man page:Pdfimages reads the PDF file PDF-file, scans one or more pages, and writes one PPM, PBM, or...
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