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LibreOffice: selected / highlighted text is invisible under GNOME High Contrast (fix)

Symptom. With the GNOME "High Contrast" accessibility setting turned on, selecting text (or cells in Calc) in LibreOffice shows no visible selection background. Highlighted text looks exactly like unselected text, so you cannot see what you have selected. Everything else works.

Cause. LibreOffice detects the operating system's high-contrast theme and switches to its own high-contrast mode, which drops the normal selection and highlight colours. This is a LibreOffice setting, not a GNOME one, and it is

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GDM Greeter on External Display (mutter 49+ / GNOME 47+)

The Problem

On modern GNOME systems (mutter 49+), the GDM login greeter ignores external displays and always appears on the internal laptop panel, even when an external monitor is connected and configured correctly in the user session.

Why the Common Fix Doesn't Work

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Clean lsd -l Output with Icons But Without Symlink Targets

A robust one-liner and shell function to use lsd (LSDeluxe) with all its NerdFont-powered visual glory — while hiding symlink targets (⇒ path).

It preserves icons, formatting, and works beautifully in scripts and aliases.

Perfect for minimalist terminal users who love beauty without unnecessary clutter.

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# Little function to prevent Zsh from going below the bottom 3rd line of your terminal. 
# Michael Longval 
# mlongval <at> gmail.com 

# Tags:  KDE  Konsole  Zsh z-shell

# I was having trouble with KDE Panels covering my Konsole sometimes 
# (would have to stop typing and click the panel to make it automatically disappear.) 

# It works by printing 2 new-line characters and then going 2 lines back up

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Fixing Gmail account creation error on Thunderbird 115.12.2

I spent hours scouring the net and finally found how to get Thunderbird version 115.12.2 on Ubuntu 24.04 to connect to my Gmail account.

The reference is from:

https://superuser.com/questions/1499159/thunderbird-fails-gmail-oauth2-despite-correct-credentials/1839995#1839995

by: https://superuser.com/users/1109344/feldmarshall

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" Exit Vim if Backspace key at beginning of unmodified buffer (top left)

" Very usefull if you use a terminal file explorer like Ranger 

" https://github.com/ranger/ranger

" you can just got into and out of files with Enter and Backspace keys. 

" Obviously will notify if buffer is modified and unsaved.

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29.04.2023 13h25

I wanted to try and install mattgodbolt's cool BBC Basic
Owlet Editor on my system.

[https://github.com/mattgodbolt/owlet-editor]

Here is the blurb from the repository describing it:

    Owlet Editor

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#!/usr/bin/env python3
# vim: filetype=python

# Simple #!/usr/bin/env python3
# vim: filetype=python

# Michael Longval
# mlongval@gmail.com

# Simple menuing system to execute scripts in $HOME/bin/menu1_items

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# set the document modeline and spelling to english
snippet setenglish "" b
# vim: spell spelllang=en
`!p vim.command("set spelllang=en")`
endsnippet

# set the document modeline and spelling to french
snippet setfrench "" b
# vim: spell spelllang=fr
`!p vim.command("set spelllang=fr")`

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def overlap():                                            
    import random                                         
    listA = random.sample(range(100), k=10)               
    listB = random.sample(range(100), k=12)               
    listC = list(set([x for x in listA if x in listB]))   
    listC.sort()                                          
    return listC