RubyMine: Disable window animations
Under Settings / Appearance you can uncheck a box Animate windows. This will change your life.
This setting seems to not exist anymore.
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Xfce: Classic panel layout in the style of Gnome 2 or Windows XP
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Re-enable submit buttons disabled by the :disable_with option
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How to disable material design in Google Chrome
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- Visit chrome://flags/
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RubyMine: You can disable inspections you don't care about
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Partially disable animations for Angular 1.4+
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Disable Thumbs.db on Windows 7
Every time you open a directory containing images, Windows creates those pesky Thumbs.db files for a minor speed-up and lots of cluttering your zip files etc.
You do want to disable them. Here is how on Windows 7:
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RubyMine crashes Ubuntu 11.04 window decorator on exit
My RubyMine (and it seems like many other Java GUI applications) crashes the Compiz window decorator almost every time on exit. This also seems to happen for the Unity decorator.
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Disable automatic code suggestions in RubyMine
To disable the mostly useless automatic suggestion popups in RubyMine, go to File / Settings, then to Editor / General / Code Completion and uncheck Auto-display code completion.
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Rubymine 7: Howto disable backspace deletes lines instead of whitespaces
RubyMine 7.1:
Settings -> Editor -> General -> Smart Keys -> Unindent -> To nearest indent position
RubyMine 7.0:
Settings -> Editor -> General -> Smart Keys -> Backspace smart indent -> uncheck
Stop animations and network polling when the document tab isn't visible
Is your application doing something expensive every few seconds? Maybe an animated slider that rotates images? Maybe you are updating data over the network every five minutes?
It's a good idea to pause this if the your document tab is not eve...