Skype screen sharing: Select which monitor to share
If you have multiple monitors and want to share a given screen with your call partner, drag the caller window to the desired monitor, then start sharing.
This is for Skype 4.2+ on Linux.
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Disable Dell U2410 beeping sound
The first thing to do with any new U2410 should be to disable the incredibly annoying beep when pressing any monitor button. Here is the fastest way to achieve that:
- OSD button (above the power button)
- Menu
- 2 × Up (You should be at “Other...
JavaScript: Sharing content with the native share dialog
Mobile Chrome and Safari support the "web share API" which allow you to use the native share functionality of an Android or iOS phone. Some desktop OSs like Windows or MacOS also support native share dialogs. See [Can I Use](https://caniuse.com/?s...
Xfce: Separate task bars for each monitor
So you have multiple screens under Xfce and want to have one task bar on each screen, only showing applications on that screen. Here you go:
- Create one panel for each monitor. Panels can be created from the panel preferences of another panel (y...
Dual monitors crashing Linux with NVIDIA drivers
My T410 has a NVIDIA graphics card (NVS 3100M).
My BIOS configuration looks like this:
- NVIDIA Optimus is disabled in
- "Discrete" mode on
- Internal Intel card deactivated
My X crashed when trying to activate both Dell U2410 monitors connect...
How to capture a screen-cast on Linux
Recording
SimpleScreenRecorder
I recommend simplescreenrecorder, it produces an adequate output with only a few clicks. The audio recording contained some static noises, but that might be...
How to fix: RubyMine does not remember last used monitor (on Ubuntu)
Every time I started RubyMine, it opened the main window on the left monitor -- when moving it to the center monitor and closing it, the next time it still opened up on the left one.
Here is how I forced RubyMine to start up on a different screen...
How to move a window to the next monitor on Xfce, Mate and other X Window Managers
Since I use this a lot in my daily work and there were no scripts working properly for me, I made one myself.
It's actually not bound to Xfce but should work on any window manager (haven't tried it, though).
Installation
- If you don't yet ...
Solve screen error "Cannot open your terminal '/dev/pts/0' - please check"
When using the screen
tool you may be unable to start a screen session but instead encounter an error:
Cannot open your terminal '/dev/pts/0' - please check.
This is because another user (you) initiated the current terminal -- you probably...
Solve issues with Samsung TV as computer screen
We have a big flat screen TV (Samsung LE46c650l1kxxu) in our conference room. Configuring it properly, we were encountering some issues.
This is a list of issues, providing a solution to each.
No sound with DVI/HDMI and separate audio
Ther...
Capistrano 2: Which Capistrano hooks to use for events to happen on both "cap deploy" and "cap deploy:migrations"
When deploying an application with "cap deploy
" by default [1] you only deploy your code but do not run migrations. To avoid an application to be running with code which requires database changes that did not happen yet you should use `cap deplo...