Category: Microsoft Windows
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Microsoft Windows PowerToys: “Always On Top” utility
This utility comes bundled with PowerToys. Sometimes I hit the keyboard shortcut accidentally (Win+Ctrl+t). Having certain windows (e.g. a browser window will all its tabs) pinned like that results in conflicts with KeePass – you cannot make that window “the other window”, that KeePass pastes the credentials into. So I “always” have to find the…
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SSH on Windows: OpenSSH, PuTTY
On Windows OpenSSH’s “SSH authentication agent” is meant to run as Windows “service“. Starting a couple of years back, Microsoft decided, to deactivate that service by default. Now there are corporations, that do not want to have the “ssh-agent” service running at all. No SSH authentication agent, no caching of ssh ID-s (after enquiring the…
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my LG 4K-UHD-Smart-TV
View Screen with Just Scan:-> Settings Wheel -> “…” ->Picture -> Aspect Ratio -> Just Scan -> On This way the display OS does not remove edge lines and columns. That is needed, because e.g. in my case serious lines and columns get stolen, and I insist on seeing them.
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Git for Windows – comes with a nice minimal GNU shell environment
https://github.com/git-for-windows/git/wiki/FAQ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/mingw-w64#MSYS2 – GfW is based on MSYS2; MSYS2 provides a Unix environment to Windows https://www.msys2.org – … https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/download.html#windows – MSYS2 users can install GNU Emacs using a pacman command line http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/emacs/windows/ – I wonder whether I can get this GNU Emacs for Windows to cooperate with the MSYS2 provided by GfW https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Microsoft-Windows.html I guess…
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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 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.