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Unreadable tiny names in LibreOffice Calc sheet tabs

This issue happens in LibreOffice 4.3 and older with some desktop themes. To solve this, either change your desktop theme or increase the value of GtkScrollbar::slider_width in the file /usr/share/themes//gtk-2.0/gtkrc. In my case, the line was commented out. Activating it with the default value…

Pacman: use regex to install multiple packages

Say I want to install all the packages starting with 'festival'. Using a wildcard throws an error, as well as using a regex, quoted or not: And it is perfectly normal... since this is not implemented! One solution is to pipe the result of a search query, which does support regex:

Hide Vimperator bottom bar

Copy the following snippet in your Vimperator configuration file (mine is ~/.vimperatorrc): Restart Firefox, then type ctrl+F8 to hide/show the bottom bar. As the author warns, you must first make the bar visible in order to execute commands. This is useful to me when watching a video in fullscreen…

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Merge two versions of a file with git-checkout

I have slightly different i3 configuration files between my desktop and laptop computers. In this case, the laptop keyboard is missing a Play/Pause multimedia key. This is where the two files differ: the laptop has a different key binding for running the music player. Having recently added new…