Author: johayek
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my 2021 Windows working environment
I would actually rather prefer Windows Terminal over ConEmu, because I assume it will be the new standard in the Windows world – but then in my professional Windows environment Group Policies do not allow “apps” – and then … ConEmu is quite nice. Windows Terminal (CAVEAT: did no achieve it): ConEmu – a Windows…
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how do I turn spellcheck off on Microsoft OneNote?
https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/msoffice/forum/all/how-do-i-turn-spellcheck-off-on-onenote/f3455ca0-cbeb-4ba3-b4c1-3d382603e44e
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GitHub and SSH authentication
https://docs.github.com/en/github/authenticating-to-github/connecting-to-github-with-ssh/testing-your-ssh-connection https://stackoverflow.com/questions/46337566/why-is-github-asking-me-username-password-although-i-setup-ssh-authentication SSH authentication only works with URL-s like this one: “git@github.com:<user>/<repo>.git“. Username (or anything like that) is not considered, just the public key.
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how to set default user for manually installed WSL distro?
https://superuser.com/questions/1566022/how-to-set-default-user-for-manually-installed-wsl-distro My preferred approach: /etc/wsl.conf inside the distro.
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disable colours in Emacs
https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/AngryFruitSalad http://catb.org/jargon/html/A/angry-fruit-salad.html https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/angry_fruit_salad http://www.askbjoernhansen.com/2002/09/05/unix_tip_disable_colors_in_ema.html https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/108257/how-do-i-stop-emacs-from-colouring-the-text-of-the-file-i-am-editing#108272 To disable colouring in your current buffer, toggle font-lock-mode off with this command (my ad-hoc solution): M-x font-lock-mode To disable font-lock-mode “permanently” – see above! You may still find coloured remainders – but it’s not as bad any longer. Continued: One day I suddenly noticed what should have been obvious…
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the “less” utility and UTF-8
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Less_(Unix) http://www.greenwoodsoftware.com/less/faq.html#intl https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/263959/how-can-i-paginate-a-utf-8-file-and-see-the-right-characters https://www.man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/less.1.html#NATIONAL_CHARACTER_SETS
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how to access a Linux desktop from Windows via RDP
https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/remote-control-linux-windows/ https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/windows-remote-desktop-connection-custom-configurations/ https://www.ubuntupit.com/how-to-install-and-use-xrdp-server-remote-desktop-on-linux-system/ https://duckduckgo.com/?q=xrdp+session+xvnc+%22login+failed+for+display%22 https://superuser.com/questions/1143359/xrdp-session-login-failed-for-display-0 https://github.com/neutrinolabs/xrdp/issues/1412 https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/473209/connect-directly-to-xvnc-started-by-xrdp#473275
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Windows Terminal – Microsoft Store or github
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Windows_Terminal https://aka.ms/terminal https://aka.ms/terminal-docs https://github.com/microsoft/terminal