Questions tagged [mnemonics]
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Untar, ungz, gz, tar - how do you remember all the useful options?
I am pretty sure I am not the only one with the following problem: every time I need to uncompress a file in *nix I can't remember all the switches, and end up googling it, which is surprizing considering how often I need to do this.
Do you have a…
deadprogrammer
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How to enable underscore (shortcut mnemonics) for menu items?
Is there a way to enable shortcut keystrokes from Windows Vista by default?
E.g. the following context menu item doesn't display a shortcut key:
dance2die
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Mnemonic external IP
When diagnosing networking problems, I ping to:
My local IP
My gateway IP
An external IP
An external domain name
Usually, when troubleshooting, the internet is unaccessible, then I need to remember an external IP address.
I need any (easy to…
Click Ok
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Why is j the standard keyboard shortcut to move forward?
Why is j the standard keyboard shortcut to move forward and k the standard shortcut to move backward (for example, in Gmail)? For most people, left is associated with backward and right is associated with forward, but in this case j is to the left…
ChaimKut
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Random Underlines in QT Program
I found that almost all QT programs have the problem. For instance, VLC
OS: Arch Linux
QT version: 5.12.1-2
Questions:
- Why there are so many random underlines in qt programs?
- How to fix that?
William
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Automated visual cues for being logged in to different machines?
I often work with 3 machines at the same time, several sessions on X, several on Y, and Z is my local machine so obviously some sessions there - all sitting around in a terminal windows / tabs.
The thing is, I often confuse my local machine with…
einpoklum
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