diagrams.net Archive is a web application that lets you draw flow charts and other diagrams. It works much nicer than office suite tools like LibreOffice Draw or Google Drawings.
Its UI is easy to use: Simply drag and drop shapes or arrows from the left-hand side onto your sheet. Drag start/end of arrows to shapes to automatically connect them. You can add text to shapes by selecting them and typing. To add colors, select a shape and use the right-hand panel.
While you can, you don't need to store your charts online. "...
If the TrackPoint Archive of your notebook stops working you can reset it with:
sudo rmmod psmouse && sudo modprobe psmouse
If you have a notebook with WQHD-display the scaling of Qt applications could be negatively affected. E.g. the KeepassXC icons and text could be rendered so large that KeePassXC is not usable and there aren't settings in the application for downscaling.
The scaling of virtualbox, vlc and zoom wasn't an issue, therefore this fix is only for KeepassXC. The application was installed with snap, but the principle is the same when installed differently. Copy your keepassxc_keepassxc.desktop
file in `/var/lib/snapd/de...
Google Chrome uses hardware acceleration of your GPU to ensure smooth scrolling and animations.
By default, Google blacklists most Linux GPU drivers from hardware acceleration because they get too many support calls. The result is that on Linux, Chrome will often have slow scrolling and animations.
Please make sure your Chrome browser has hardware-acceleration enabled so your experience matches that of most users of the apps you build. You should usually be able to override the blacklist without issues.
chrome://gpu
should ha...
When you are using a dedicated webcam device on a desktop machine, you never want to use its microphone. Here is how to disable it.
This can be useful if "smart" voice chat or phone software picks its microphone at random. If you disable all but one, you can avoid that.
sudo apt install pavucontrol
pavucontrol
You may use any other mixer tool wher...
On Ubuntu I always had a hard time resizing windows as window borders are so thin that they are hard to grab.
My solution for Ubuntu Mate was to resize windows with ALT + right mouse and move them with ALT + left mouse.
Ubuntu with Gnome Shell (Ubuntu 20.04) uses different shortcuts. You have to use the super key (windows key) with mouse-wheel-click to resize.
If this feels awkward to you, you can change this using the Tweaks application:
When another person on a Meet call is sharing their screen, text may be hard to read due to the large number of UI elements taking up space.
Here are some things you can do to increase the size of the shared screen:
CTRL+minus
a couple of times. This reduces the size of the Meet controls at the bottom. You can later ...Thunderbird 78 and newer handles GPG differently than previous versions as previously the extension Enigmail was used to handle GPG functionality. Now Thunderbird has GPG built-in, Enigmail is no longer needed and no longer works.
The main implication due to this is that Thunderbird uses its own keystore. Therefore you don't have to enter a passphrase for your key. The good news is that you can, if you want and know what you do, use your system GPG (as ...
To test your microphone you can either check the amplitude in the settings or create a temporary loop.
pactl load-module module-loopback latency_msec=1000
The effect ist something like this:
pactl unload-module module-loopback
Zammad has a number of helpful keyboard shortcuts.
I particular recommend using CTRL+SHIFT+C
to close the current ticket, and CTRL+SHIFT+O
to return to the last overview list.
You can access a list of available shortcut by clicking on your user profile icon at the bottom left, then select Keyboard shortcuts.
If colors rendered by Chrome look off (e.g. bright red becomes a tone of brown), try disabling the color profiles for all displays. You can do so in Settings / Color.
Persistently disabling Bluetooth across reboots is not trivial on some Ubuntus (I'm using 16.04 LTS).
Instead of configuring systemd or editing config files, you may also disable Bluetooth in your BIOS:
ENTER
on my X260)Security
I/O Port Access
Bluetooth
to Disabled
If the default lock function of your desktop environment isn't working you can try this workaround with xautolock
.
sudo apt-get install xautolock
Autolock runs a command after a given duration of inactivity. Your screensaver or "locker" usually has a programmatic way to lock the screen. How that command looks like depends on which environment you're using.
xautolock -time 10 -locker "mate-screensaver-command -l"
The time is...
Here are some tools that are useful to manipulate PDF documents under Linux/Ubuntu:
Add text, add images, add hand-written notes. No geometrical shapes. Recommended. Simple tool to insert a signature image and some text to a PDF.
Add text, add images, add geometrical shapes. Horrible GUI, but works some of the time.
Graphical G...
The centerpiece of our home office setup usually consists of a docking station which charges the notebook and acts as a proxy to various peripheral devices.
For reference, I am running Ubuntu 18.04 on a Thinkpad T480. You might not run into the same issues on other devices.
Lately I switched to using the ThinkVision P27h Archive monitor. The neat thing is that it made my docking station unessential:
When your PC no longer reacts to input, you might be able to restart your MATE session:
CTRL+ALT+F1
.killall mate-session
If successful you should see the visual login prompt (it will automatically switch back to CTRL+ALT+F7
).
After that, go back to CTRL+ALT+F1
and log out with exit
so no one with physical access to your PC can use that session. The session will not be locked by the screen saver in your graphical MATE environment!
makandra cards now has a "Reader mode" that will display the current card in a minimal layout. This is useful for presentations.
We added some keyboard shortcuts to help with navigation:
R
or by clicking the book icon.R
or Escape
.E
.These keyboard shortcuts also work in the regular card view.