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How can I prevent an app (specifically zoom) from running in the background when I close it?

When I close a certain app (Zoom) it appears in my notification area and continues to run as a background process. I have to manually right click and exit the program (or open task manager and exit) each time. How can I prevent it from running as a…
Blangzo
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How to force Unity Editor/TestRunner to run at full speed when in background?

I have observed a curious behaviour where processing in Unity Editor (TestRunner) takes 2.5s while the editor is in the foreground, but slows down to 15s when I immediately tab to another app, thus putting the editor to the background. What's more:…
CodeSmile
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ImageMagick only trimming one side, how can I trim both?

I'm trying to use ImageMagick(7.1.1-43) to automatically crop a photograph of a coin, removing the surrounding background. I want to trim the image based on a "fuzz" factor, effectively removing the mostly-uniform color. However, my current command…
Jeffrey Flynt
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Which Notepad++ plugin sets the text's background color to orange?

I installed about two dozens of plugins in a new Notepad++ installation and the result is: I checked all plugins. None of them gives a hint to the background color. I also checked Settings → Preferences. To no avail. The Change Markers and…
Gerold Broser
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How can I change the Background color and the Font size in Apache J Meter

How can I change the background color to White from the existing Black color and also increase the font size of the Apache J Meter Software?
Suresh Madhusanka Rodrigo
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Windows 10 - bring background task into foreground

I have a scheduled task that runs an exe in the background. Every once in a while I'm suspicious that the exe isn't running properly but I have no way to see the output since it's hidden and I can only be aware of the process in task…
Jacksonkr
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Firefox stopped playing media in the background

Till the last update (79.0.5), media used to play in the background even if the browser is minimized (navigate to other apps), or android on sleep (press power button, screen off). But after the update lost that functionality, once the screen is…
Jimson James
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How to set the background color of a PDF file opened in a Firefox browser?

I tried the following way to change the PDF file background color in a Firefox browser (Firefox version 124.0, following an answer from here): Enter setting with about:config set pdfjs.forcePageColors to true set pdfjs.pageColorsBackground to a hex…
nlite
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Run background (async) cmd with sync output

I am using curl to get a URL then writing to a file, like this: urls=( 'https://www.example1.com' 'https://www.example2.com' ) for i in ${urls[@]}; do curl $i & done echo 'stuff' I have deliberately simplified the code, so the exact…
Nickotine
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Set Windows Background Colours from a Webpage Script

The Display Screen Optimiser I have a web app which identifies the optimal background colours for reading speed. It can set this optimal colour as the background for our site but our users want to be able to implement this in their apps as well. I…
Steve
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How to setup Windows 11 to background images as slideshow from a folder permanently?

In Windows 11, I want the background image to be shown from a folder, so I go to "Settings" -> "Personalization" -> "Personalize your background" and select "slideshow" and a folder with images. Then Windows 11 shows background images from the…
Alex
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Windows 10 cmd.exe process drops from foreground to background

I have been having this problem for over a year and have searched for clues to its resolution and found almost nothing. The problem is that after a time (could be days or weeks), cmd.exe processes that I started manually go to background and cannot…
dude
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How to change theme/background settings in Windows 10 automatically or with one click?

Question background: I set my background to slideshow that changes every 10 minutes. It also choose the accent color automatically from my background and show the accent color on start, taskbar, and action center. These settings are slowing down my…
Halil Nebioğlu
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Disable unique backgrounds on virtual desktops in Windows 11?

I use virtual desktops and the Bing Wallpaper app to get a fresh wallpaper every day. It worked great on Windows 10, but with Windows 11 each desktop can have its own unique wallpaper. Now when Bing Wallpaper updates my background, it only does it…
JacobTheDev
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Telegram is automatically turning off in windows 10?

Telegram is automatically turning off in windows 10 when in background. What should I do? It worked perfectly till yesterday. And I don't remember I changed any settings or something.
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