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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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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? [duplicate]
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 [duplicate]
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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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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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?
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Using a Flickr stream as a Windows 7 background slideshow?
Is there an app that will let me choose a Flickr photostream to be used as background slide show in Windows 7?
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switching stopped processes in linux bash (using putty)
Accessing a remote server (Ubunty Hardy) through ssh (putty), i can stop running 'programs' with CTRL-Z (pause signal)... I can have multiple paused jobs, with I can see with the command 'jobs'.
The ...
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programmatic access to current xterm background color
I would like to setup the prompt colors in .bashrc depending on the colors it is using for foreground and background. For example, blue prompt if background is light and beige if it is dark.
Is there ...
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On Linux can I keep a program running in background even after I disconnect?
If I'm logged into a remote Linux machine, I know I can suspend a process (cntr-z) and move it to the background (bg 1) but if I disconnect from the machine, the process stops.
Is there a way I can ...
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How to change the cosmos picture displayed at startup on Mac OS X?
I want to change the purple cosmos picture that is displayed at startup and login time on Mac OS X.
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How can I change the background colour of a single emacs buffer?
I want to make SQL interactive buffers that are connected to production DBs very, very obvious, so my thought was to change the background of the buffer to a dark red colour. set-background-color ...
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Possible to make a window as background?
i want to set one window as a background .I mean that this window never will front of other windows.Is it possible to do that ?
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Set Windows 7 Lock Screen Background [duplicate]
Possible Duplicate:
Displaying wallpaper when desktop is locked in Windows 7
I've googled this a bit, but have yet to find anything.
I have 2 monitors. when I lock my screen via win+L, it ...
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Ubuntu 10.04 RGBA(Transparent theme) bug
I tried to follow this tutorial frome ghacks.net. But I end up with a bug. Everytime I try to change the desktop background or the theme. It opens up lots of folders. And then close it back again. So ...
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change background and font colors in mac terminal
is it possible, I want to change the color the white background is not too appealing.
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how to change the png file background to transparence
I used Paintbrush drawing an icon, if it is on a colored background, it will display a white block shown as below.
I prefer to change the icon background from white color to transparent color:
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How to deal with job that stop and cannot continue unless made foreground?
Recent example: mountlo (using UML):
vi@vi-notebook:~/b$ mountlo -m 16 -d /dev/uba1 /home/vi/mnt/usb -t vfat -o iocharset=utf8,allow_other&
[1] 32561
vi@vi-notebook:~/b$ Checking that ptrace can ...
