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Mounting USB devices with pmount Usually USB devices are recognized and mounted automatically. If this does not happen, you may use pmount to mount the device man... (last changed by AndreKerkhoff)2023-02-08T17:04:13+01:00a.kerkhoffTipsKDE
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Tips and Tricks for KDE KDE 5 (Plasma) config files While older versions of KDE put all configuration data in ~/.kde, KDE Plasma is using ~/.config for storing ... (last changed by StefanHaller)2022-08-04T14:26:18+02:00s.hallerTsmBackup
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%IF{"'' ingroup 'ItGroup'" then="$percentREDIRECT{\"IT/Service.LinuxHomeDirectory\"}$percent" else="$percentREDIRECT{\"https://www.gsi.de/work/it/service/linu... (last changed by AndreKerkhoff)2022-06-09T22:48:27+02:00a.kerkhoffTipsTricks
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Tips and Tricks Customizing your desktop * KDE Customizing your KDE desktop * XFCE Customizing your XFCE desktop * Xmonad Customizing your Xmonad ... (last changed by StefanHaller)2021-07-13T15:00:21+02:00s.hallerTipsXFCE
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Some useful tips for the XFCE desktop Using Xfce Terminal instead of Konsole Open "Xfce Menu" "Settings" "Preferred Applications", click on tab "Utilities" a... (last changed by StefanHaller)2021-07-13T14:42:16+02:00s.hallerTipsEmail
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Configure mailreaders on Linux These instructions are explaining how to access your mailbox on the GSI MS Exchange server. Actually they are not specific to Excha... (last changed by AndreKerkhoff)2021-06-25T14:35:31+02:00a.kerkhoffTSM
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(last changed by AndreKerkhoff)2020-10-20T13:58:11+02:00a.kerkhoffTipsKonsole
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Trailing white spaces when copying text When copying text from a Konsole window it may happen that the lines are as long as your terminal line length due to trail... (last changed by StefanHaller)2017-04-28T13:42:48+02:00s.hallerTipsPdf
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PDF documents PDF readers Since Adobe's decision to discontinue the Adobe Reader for Linux you'll have to use another tool for viewing PDF files, e.g. * xpdf ... (last changed by StefanHaller)2016-10-28T16:24:24+02:00s.hallerTipsVim
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Customize the settings for the editor vim The editor vim supports a bunch of useful features. You may activate them during a session or set them as your personal ... (last changed by StefanHaller)2016-10-24T19:01:00+02:00s.hallerTipsOffice
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LibreOffice LibreOffice is a suite of office applications for presentations, text, and spread sheet processing. It is a standard part of the LinuxDesktop installa... (last changed by ChristopherHuhn)2016-02-04T11:00:40+01:00c.huhnTipsGraphicFormats
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Converting different graphic formats Sometimes one has to convert some graphics to another format, i.e. jpg to ps. * One way is to open the file with an almos... (last changed by IlonaNeis)2015-11-24T14:07:18+01:00i.neisTipsTextFormats
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Converting different text formats Line endings Sometimes you'll have to transfer plain text files from Linux to other systems like Mac or Windows. For this you'l... (last changed by StefanHaller)2015-05-06T12:28:49+02:00s.hallerTipsMozilla
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Optimizations for Firefox, Thunderbird and its relatives Since early 2005, the recommended browser is Mozilla Firefox (called Iceweasel on Debian). Since it is a ... (last changed by StefanHaller)2015-05-05T14:56:51+02:00s.hallerTipsTrash
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Watch your trash If you're running out of disc space ... Please keep in mind that many applications with graphical user interfaces do not really delete files but ... (last changed by StefanHaller)2013-10-24T13:13:47+02:00s.hallerTipsXmonad
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Xmonad Xmonad is a tiling window manager. See http://xmonad.org/ for a description of all the goodies. * The Xmonad desktop is mouse insensitive! It is possibl... (last changed by ThomasRoth)2013-09-13T19:39:08+02:00t.rothTipsEmacs
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Configuration Server It is possible to run emacs in client server mode. One way of doing this comfortably is this: 1. set EDITOR to emacsclient c $@ 2. s... (last changed by ThomasStibor)2013-08-16T16:13:57+02:00t.stiborTipsSort
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Changing the default sort sequence Newer Linux distributions changed the default behaviour for sorting alphanumeric values. The characters are not sorted by their... (last changed by StefanHaller)2008-04-17T18:25:55+02:00s.hallerTipsDircolors
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Customizing the colors for ls The command line tool ls can be configured to use different colors for different file types, e.g. blue directories or red archive fi... (last changed by StefanHaller)2008-02-18T18:05:24+01:00s.hallerTipsAV
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Multimedia playback Audio Video * MPEG * Apple Quicktime * Realvideo (*.ram, ...) kann mit dem RealPlayer (realplay) betrachtet werden. Main.Chr... (last changed by ChristopherHuhn)2007-12-14T17:07:35+01:00c.huhnTipsKeyboard
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Access to German special characters on English keyboards If you are working with X and an English keyboard you don't need to copy and paste special characters lik... (last changed by ThomasRoth)2007-12-10T15:33:54+01:00t.roth
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