Comment by Bass on Changing GIMP 2 installation folder on Windows
Thanks, but I do want a complete installer. I'm truly amazed modern installers give me no freedom where I would expect a choice available.
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@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 NTVDM.exe command prompt switches
It would be nice if you briefly quoted the resources you've found. Microsoft can withdraw its legacy documentation at any time, and 4chan.org is unavailable often enough.
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 I change the resolution of full screen console mode...
Actually, since the font used in full screen mode had a character size of 9x16 pixels, the actual video mode used to be 720x400.
View ArticleComment by Bass on How To Change The Fonts In Windows 8
WinAero Tweaker is capable of changing those.
View ArticleComment by Bass on How to change the theme of Windows 8 to the classic theme?
Not only the Task Manager stops working, but also other applications which replace the standard window title bar (Internet Explorer, Opera 12.x, Google Chrome, MySQL Workbench) start exhibiting a...
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 How do you disable Pocket on Firefox 38 and up with GPO?
In Mozilla Firefox 51-53 (and maybe several earlier versions), the pref is named extensions.pocket.enabled.
View ArticleComment by Bass on How to convert a VHDX file to VHD?
Also, one can encounter the VHDX: Image has a non empty log which is not supported (VERR_NOT_SUPPORTED) error message.
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...
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