Comment by Bass on Changing GIMP 2 installation folder on Windows
@MichaelSchumacher: Indeed, I didn't notice in the first place I already had GIMP installed, so what I thought of as an initial installation was an upgrade instead.
View ArticleComment by Bass on Console and NTVDM resolution upscaling in full-screen
@Maximus For DOS applications, yes. But what about Windows console applications? Rebooting into safe mode to get a plain non-accelerated VESA is not an option.
View ArticleComment by Bass on How do you make Windows 7 fully case-sensitive with...
@William: I believe you only need to terminate all Cygwin processes and services (like Apache, sshd, etc.). That should be enough, as cygwin1.dll will be unloaded from RAM.
View ArticleComment by Bass on Why doesn't xterm support double-sized characters when...
Thank you Thomas for such a detailed response. I have to remark that PuTTY line drawing issues can be mitigated by export'ing NCURSES_NO_UTF8_ACS=1 (for ncurses-based applications in UTF-8 locale).
View ArticleCygwin locale for Russian/Russia
On my Windows box, locale command outputs the following: LANG=ru_RU LC_CTYPE="ru_RU" LC_NUMERIC="ru_RU" LC_TIME="ru_RU" LC_COLLATE="ru_RU" LC_MONETARY="ru_RU" LC_MESSAGES="ru_RU" LC_ALL= This is...
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Different line spacing depending on font encoding
Historically, I've been using Monotype Courier New as my XTerm font (it displays well both Cyrillic characters and box-drawing characters). When migrating from legacy KOI8-R to UTF-8 locale, I've...
View ArticleAnswer by Bass for How do I disable font smoothing/hinting/anti-aliasing on...
In more recent Firefox (38+) and SeaMonkey (2.35+) versions, gfx.direct2d.disabled has nothing to do with HW acceleration with regard to fonts display. Instead, you may need to set...
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Turn off font smoothing in SeaMonkey for Windows
I'm running SeaMonkey on Windows 8.1, and I have recently upgraded to version 2.40. Although I have full-pixel AA and ClearType disabled entirely (which can be seen either by running...
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Answer by Bass for Turn off font smoothing in SeaMonkey for Windows
It were my Intel HD Graphics driver settings to be blamed. When "Application Optimal Mode" is on and "Conservative Morphological Anti-Aliasing" is set to either Override or Enhance Application...
View ArticleAnswer by Bass for xauth not creating .Xauthority file
Just to complement the excellent ton's answer. I have once had exactly the same problem because my home directory had become 100% full. Upon connection, ssh created an empty ~/.Xauthority and was...
View ArticleRequesting aliased :guifont rendering in Vim on Windows
Non-AA font rendering seems available everywhere except for Windows. In MacVim, this is possivle via noantialias. When using GTK2 front-end, the same can be achieved by adding antialias=false to the...
View ArticleAnswer by Bass for Video resolution when capturing a full-screen recording...
This appears to be a known ffmpeg issue: Should retain pixel density metadata from HiDPI/Retina screen recordings.
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Video resolution when capturing a full-screen recording via ffmpeg on Mac OS X
I have a 15-inch 2017 MacBook Pro running Mac OS X 10.13 (High Sierra): The default display supports screen resolutions up to 2880x1800, despite the maximum resolution selectable via the standard UI...
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Why doesn't xterm support double-sized characters when using Xft fonts?
Whenever I configure xterm to use core X11 fonts: *.vt100.renderFont: False *.vt100.locale: False *.vt100.font: -monotype-courier new-medium-r-normal--*-120-*-*-m-*-koi8-r it renders double-sized...
View ArticleChanging GIMP 2 installation folder on Windows
I've just installed GIMP 2.8.16 on Windows XP (32-bit). The installer prompted me for everything -- which components to install, file associations, etc. -- except for the installation folder (which it...
View ArticleComment by Bass on Using Process Monitor, how do I trace a process and its...
Thanks, your response is really good, but if we’re talking about the existing (long-running) children, the same can be accomplished from within procmon.exe via the Process Tree action (Ctrl+T). From...
View ArticleUsing Process Monitor, how do I trace a process and its children?
Using SysInternals Process Monitor (procmon.exe or procmon64.exe), how do I trace a process with a given PID and its child processes?My first (naïve) idea was to include both "PID is 1234" and "Parent...
View ArticleComment by Bass on Different line spacing depending on font encoding
Thank you — I’m aware of the scaleHeight resource. It works... to an extent, w/o providing the perfect picture I used to have in earlier versions of X11. Basically, this is a regression in the core X...
View ArticleComment by Bass on How do I change the account in use for Hangouts (Chrome...
This should be the accepted answer.
View ArticleComment by Bass on An attempt to switch to a doublescan X11 modeline fails...
Thank you. My question was specifically about doublescan ModeLine's, since Configure crtc 0 failed is a rather generic error message which may be caused by a number of reasons. I've already received an...
View ArticleComment by Bass on An attempt to switch to a doublescan X11 modeline fails...
This question already has an answer at unix.stackexchange.com/questions/611581
View ArticleComment by Bass on How do I extract all the external links of a web page and...
Will work fine except when links contain spaces (will need to manually replace those with %20).
View ArticleComment by Bass on With Chromium-based browsers, how to force-open an HTTP...
@spikey_richie No. My question is about a particular browser engine that doesn't respect its users.
View ArticleComment by Bass on With Chromium-based browsers, how to force-open an HTTP...
@Ferrybig Sometimes the inegrity of the content served by a pure HTTP server can be verified by some other means (as is with Debian repositories). In this case, I need a generic HTTP client, and a...
View ArticleComment by Bass on Move WSL2 file system to another drive
You can configure the default user by editing the /etc/wsl.conf file within the guest VM, as this guide describes.
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