LXDE >
A theme manager.
Essential for its simplicity.
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A component of LXDE.
Usability
All posts tagged Usability
Problem – YouTube comments do not display line breaks. This is seen with both my own comments and those from others.
2016-06-27 – This magically self-repaired either due to a Pale Moon update to 26.3.1 (x86), or YouTube fixing their shit.
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VLC >
Problem: Given a main video file, with or without multiple audio tracks, play the video with an audio track provided as a separate file.
I googled for an answer, and found How to play a video with a different audio track?, whose accepted answer gave me a hint. Thanks! (I should have probably searched VLC’s community or superuser directly, but I didn’t think about that.) Since VLC was pretty difficult for me to use for this, I made a tutorial. Maybe it will help others.
VLC > VLC plugins >
https://web.archive.org/web/20160718195007/http://addons.videolan.org:80/content/show.php/Remember+Playing+Now?content=171318
https://web.archive.org/web/20170206054146/http://gna.org/projects/rem-play-now-vlc/
Appends the ‘Now Playing’ info to a text file.
I use it to save the title when listening to a web radio station that puts the artist/song in VLC’s title.
These days, I just use Leatrix Latency Fix.
Disambiguation: Leatrix Plus
Improving latency on Windows >
https://www.wowinterface.com/downloads/info13581-LeatrixLatencyFix.html
https://mega.nz/file/oXgQAKKC#AjY7F6kXcEVzYXdOQqQhnMBclmviCOlA1AOFl8QXkYg [ 1 ] was leatrix.com/leatrix-latency-fix
Leatrix Latency Fix will reduce your online gaming latency significantly by increasing the frequency of TCP acknowledgements sent to the game server. For the technically minded, this is a program which will modify TCPAckFrequency.
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Abandoned – Officially abandoned
Footnotes
Some of us don’t want Cortana. Disabling it doesn’t actually disable it, so you have to jump through a hoop.
It’s not that hard to remedy.
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2016-10-17 – There’s an option for this in Ultimate Windows Tweaker, but it doesn’t seem to work.
(on Wikipedia)
https://sourceforge.net/projects/ijbswa/
http://www.privoxy.org/
Privoxy is a non-caching web proxy with advanced filtering capabilities for enhancing privacy, modifying web page data and HTTP headers, controlling access, and removing ads and other obnoxious Internet junk.
I experimented with cliget during my replacing web browser components project. I was interested in replacing Greasemonkey and Stylish, Adblock (now I use Adblock Latitude), Change Referer Button, etc. While I did get it working, I didn’t stick with it.
- Based on Internet Junkbuster.
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Polipo is a good solution for
