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Terminating/closing synergy
I managed to set synergy (ubuntu box as server and mac as client - it doesn't work the other way around). Currently I'm running:
synergys -f
synergyc -f SERVERNAME
on the ubuntu and mac ...
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Stardock's LogonStudio doesn't change the login screen background?
I am using a Sony VAIO laptop (that comes with a custom login screen to begin with) running Windows 7 Home Premuim 32 bit.
I am trying to use Stardock's LogonStudio to change the background of my ...
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How to continue downloading files with ftp command after session is closed?
I need to create a script in Linux to get from server multiple files. After downloading files started need to close the session but without stopping the download.
How to do this?
Thanks
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How to make new GUI instance and start programs there in Windows?
When I want to start and use some GUI programs without actual GUI on GNU/Linux I use Xvfb.
export DISPLAY=:10
Xvfb :10 -screen 0 1024x582x16 -nolisten tcp &
sleep 2;
myprogram;
...
How to do ...
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How to change the background color of a transparent desktop image on Mac OS X?
Under Desktop & Screen Saver I have selected to show a PNG image with transparency on my Desktop. It looks like this:
The transparent area shows the exact same color that is listed as the first ...
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How can I make a layer “blend” into an existing picture in Photoshop?
I am trying to insert a cropped out part of one picture into another picture.
I am copying over a layer, but my issue is that the target picture is a little grainy. The layer lines up perfectly from ...
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How do you set the background to none on windows 7
I am trying to find how to set the background to none on windows 7. Not a solid color, but none. You can easily do it on XP. The reason I want to do this is I use xearth to display the background. For ...
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How do I change the login screen colour or background in Windows 7?
I'm running Windows 7 Home Premium at home and Professional at work.
How can I change the colour and/or the background image of the lock/login screen? I'd like to set it to something nicer than the ...
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Background process (nohup &) suspends/resumes when user logs out/logs in
Ubuntu Server 11.10
When a normal (non-root) user starts a process with nohup, when the user disconnects from the terminal the process (java) stops responding. When the user connects again, the ...
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How can I better detect background traces after creating a transparent background in photoshop?
I know how to create a transparent background. However, when I use the magic eraser tool, there will always remain little areas or dots of old background. Sometimes they are so small that I only see ...
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Do System background tasks in Windows 7 run throttled?
I am trying to Trace installations, to do that I have to wait for the "systems background tasks" to cool out. Or it traces all the system tasks going on. It can take a some time to finish all the ...
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Disable background image smoothing on windows 7
When choosing a low-resolution image to use as desktop background and stretching it, it causes the image to get smoothed, making it blurry. Is there a way to disable the smoothing, so I can use some ...
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Set Custom BackGroung for Win2008R2 for RDP terminal
is there anybody who knows how to set that, another result as from this thread
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When exactly does a Windows program pause running?
I have an app that needs to run for long period unattended on Windows XP and 7. I have it running on a remote machine that has LogMeIn installed so I can look at it from afar. The program has regular ...
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Kill background processes started by bash script
I'd like to run the CoffeeScript and the Sass compilers in the background, and be able to kill them both at once. I have a bash script start, like this:
coffee --watch -o assets/ -c src/ &
sass ...
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How would you repeat something on the X and Y axis in Inkscape?
I would like to use the paint bucket to fill in the background with black and white circles evenly spaced apart. What is this called?
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How to add more desktop backgrounds to the default Plants group?
I have some additional plants pictures. I love the "Auto change background feature" of Mac OS X. I use "plants" and "change background every minute".
How can I add more pictures in plants or any ...
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Script that runs a command with 'exec' doesnt end until 'Enter' is pressed
We have a KSH script that runs a process using exec and hangs.
We want to be able to run it automatically and keep it running in background.
We tried this:
./myScript.ksh &
However this left ...
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Load pages in background with Google Chrome
I'd like to be able to make the browser load a bunch of web pages in the background each time I launch Chrome. This way, once I click on one of them, it displays right away.
The best would be to get ...
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Preventing bash from displaying “Done” when a background command finishes executing
if I make
sleep 2 &
this command run in backgroung, and in two seconds, I get "Done".
How I can avoid seeing the "Done" message ?
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powershell background tasks
how do I do a background task in powershell?
$ ant >/dev/null & #cygwin
the closest i can get to this in powershell is
ps2> start-job {ant |out-null; `a} #powershell
but then ...
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How can I change the Windows XP command line background? [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
How to change default color of the Command Line?
In Windows XP the command line background by default is a color. I want to change the background to a picture.
What ...
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Word 2010 - Shading paragraph background
I have created a new Word 2010 document and am wanting to set the background shading of a paragraph to a given colour (using the blue circled button).
My issue is that when I have done so, the areas ...
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Only solid color possible as background in Windows 7
Since a couple of days, my Windows 7 x64 system only has a solid color background, the background image is missing. I tried quite a lot of options to get my background image back, but did not succeed ...
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Vista background only allows solid colors?
Last night after a LogMeIn rescue session, I can no longer change my wallpaper in Windows Vista.
It reverted to a plain black background and will only allow me to select solid colors. When I ...
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Firefox addon for black background [closed]
Possible Duplicate:
Change the white background in webpages to another color.
Is there any Firefox addon which makes each site's background black and text white?
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How can I get Chrome's new tab shortcut to open tabs in background?
When I press the new tab shortcut key CTRL+SHIFT+ENTER it opens in the foreground.
How can I change it to open background? I'm using Chrome 10.0.648.204 portable.
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How do I make the image background transparent in photoshop cs5
I have an image with a white background which I downloaded, the image has a white background, I want the background to be transparent. How do I achieve this in Photoshop cs5.
What I did was, select ...
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How can I change the desktop color to black in Snow Leopard?
I'm trying to change the desktop color to black, but I can't seem to find how other than by creating a solid black image.
In System Preferences -> Desktop & Screensaver, there are a few colors, ...
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Desktop Background Group Policy - Windows XP, SBS 2008
I'm applying a desktop background via a group policy on user's PC's. It works fine on most, except for two PC's on which the desktop background is only applied to 1/5th of the background.
The rest of ...
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How do I make a repeating background of a triangle image in Inkscape?
I have a triangular icon I need to be used as a background image. The triangles line up together right-side up, upside-down, etc. in rows. The background may need to be adjusted dynamically, so I'd ...
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How should one safely background a “daemon” process when started manually?
I once used emacsclient as my editor from the command line, but it bothered me that it would hang the terminal window while I was working in emacs. I tried backgrounding the process by running ...
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Patching the background image preferences of gnome-terminal 2.30.2 in Ubuntu 10.04.1 installed with wubi
Yesterday I installed Ubuntu with wubi again and i wanted to configure my own gnome-terminal as i want i to look. I want a background image and the standard-preferences are not very good. i want the ...
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change background color of .gif in adobe photoshop
I am trying to change the background of an image from white to grey in Adobe Photoshop, but I can't find out how to do it.
Can someone assist me ?
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Background Program Effect on CPU Performance
Below is a script that runs in the background and modifies the manner in which the backspace key works. It comes from the How To Geek. I believe the script takes ram from the computer, but does it ...
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Microsoft Word: create a repeating background image
I am using word 2003 but can use a higher version if necessary. I have a document that I need to embed an image onto at a specific position on every page.
I see an option for adding a background ...
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Set Windows XP desktop background with group policy
I need to set a specific desktop background picture to a number of Windows XP machines. Is it possible to use some group policy for this or must I do it one by one?
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how to create python daemon in windows?
Hii All,
I want to create a python daemon win windows named daemon.py.
there is a file a.py which is used to take backup. I want to run this file every one hour and that also as background process. ...
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Auto login in background in Windows Server 2008 R2
I am sure everyone knows about the common functionality of automatic login on Windows.
What I would like is the same thing, but in background; meaning that the user selection screen remains on ...
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How to run a persistent background process as a non-privileged user in OS X?
I'm currently launching the process using nohup but occasionally after logging out and back in again the process is gone. Something is reaping it. I don't need it to survive a reboot (so I think ...
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Which image is displayed on Mac desktop?
I have set up my Mac (10.6.4) to display random image from iPhoto on desktop. From time to time I would like to know which image is displayed (I have a lot of them), but I could not find a way how to ...
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replace/remove background image on gimp 2.6.11
how do I remove these images by compiling gimp from source? I can't find any file containing these images.
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Why I cannot run background process by “at now < jobsfile” on Mac?
I can run a process in background by
$ someprog > logfile &
but if I do
$ at now < jobsfile
then nothing happens except printing
job 1 at Wed Sep 29 19:12:40 2010
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Giving Photoshop for Mac a gray background like on Windows
Having recently moved from Windows to Mac, the transparent application background in Photoshop for Mac is driving me a little bit bananas. Is there a way to give the application itself a gray ...
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How to log STDOUT of a background process w/o buffering on Mac?
I am running a background process on Mac and have a problem with log update. If I run
someprog > mylog &
then mylog is updated not immediately, but with some intervals - I guess it's due to ...
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help needed to remove a white background
I've purchased an image from istock photo, but need to have the white background removed - keeping the shading etc. Now I'm not so good with Photoshop, and for the life of me I can't get it properly. ...
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Change the white background in webpages to another color
I'm currently using a dark theme in firefox. It looks really nice, but many webpages use a plain white background. The resulting contrast is a little unpleasant and sometimes hurts the eye when I ...
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windows 7 login screen background
Is there somewhere in windows 7 where I can change the lame background image for the login screen. I know there are a bunch of hacks and utilities and regedit changes and garbage like that to change ...
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how can you make a color pdf when saving a file
and the background color is yellow, when i save this as pdf, the background color becomes white.
Is it possible, to also save the background color?
I would appreciate your help.
Does anybody knows ...
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How to run system commands in the backgroud on Windows?
When I type a command and make it run on Windows XP, a black dos screen always flashes.
So how can I ignore this?
