Questions about the user interface of programs or machines.
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How to disable hot tracking UI feature in Windows 8?
When I click on a row it highlights the line with blue background (regular behaviour), but when I mouseover other rows it highlights them too.
How can I disable this?
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KDE UI-treeviews: keyboard exploring
These UI elements do not respond to left and right keyboard arrows OOTB. Expected behaviour was to expand / contract tree nodes that contain children. Any way to make them behave as every other ...
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Use spacebar to check and uncheck checkboxes in KDE
A powerful and necessary keyboard navigation element is the ability to use space bar to check / uncheck checkboxes. How to enable such behaviour for spacebar key in KDE 4.x ?
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How to prevent an app from minimizing (Windows 7)
Is there a way, on Windows 7, to prevent a specific application from minimizing to the task bar & the system tray, even if the application itself doesn't support this feature?
Please note: I mean ...
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Identify the UI [closed]
The first computer I used at home — this was in the late 1980s, I guess — was an IBM PC AT running DOS. But when I turned on the computer, a screen came up with a menu of applications. It ...
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Why does Windows Vista UI insist on staying in Swedish?
I just changed the display language on Windows Vista Ultimate from the native Swedish to English. It logged me out and after logging back in everything seemed to be translated to English and I was ...
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are the Kendo Ui and Jqueryui compatible with each other? [closed]
I want to use both kendo Ui framework and jqueryui framework on same web application, I want to know if there a conflict can occur if both are used at the same time ?
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How can I make the UI in MS Office 2007/10/13 more like Office 2003?
I really dislike Office versions over 2003, but they do have a few features I require. I would, however, like to make the Office UI as similar to Office 2003's as possible. I already use UBitMenu, but ...
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Firefox 20 does not open select box
I am using Windows 8 with Firefox 20 and - like seen in older versions - in some cases the select box does not open at all.
The HTML is wrapped by a form, so I do not expect the html to be wrong.
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How do I move the iTunes Menu Bar to the top?
Quick question. I have iTunes 11.0.2.26. I re-enabled the classic menu bar, but it's been placed below the controls/toolbar. Is there a way to move it back to the top?
I did a quick Google search ...
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How to get customizable right click menu for Windows 7 desktop?
99 percent of a time I am using some flavor of Unix on my desktop with Fluxbox as window manager of choice.
I want to make remaining 1 percent I spent on Windows as painless a possible.
I really love ...
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Removing the yellow “crashed” strip in Chromium
Everytime a plugin chrashes in Chromium yellow strips appear on all of my tabs. To remove them one needs to browse through all the tabs and close them, use an extension to reload all tabs at once or ...
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Bad color of links of “error pop-up” in Eclipse in black UI, Lubuntu
I can't find option for change font size and link color of this "error-helper" or what its called on Eclipse 3.8. How do i change this?
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MS Outlook 2007 Strange UI - Navigation Pane / Sidebar
I apologize if this is not the appropriate place for this question.
Any idea what's causing my navigation pane in outlook to appear the way it is? I don't know of any changes to my system.
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How can I convert a paragraph tag into a div?
In Dreamweaver, one can turn a paragraph into a heading from the properties panel.
In the same way,(or via a menu or shortcut) is there a way to turn it into a div or a span?
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Keep Gnome 3 top bar (menu bar) during fullscreen mode
I want to modify Gnome 3 to support the following:
Full-screen applications expand into the area below the top bar.
I'd like to use full-screen applications while also using the functionality ...
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How to get back to the default look of Firefox (Iceweasel) UI on CrunchBang?
I've just installed CrunchBang and I'm exploring the default Firefox front end called Iceweasel.
However, the UI of it seems to be tweaked to be Windows-friendly. Instead of the familiar "File Edit ...
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How do I give HTTP connections higher priority in TP-LINK TD-8901G modem?
I have a TP-LINK modem. My web browsing/surfing speed decreases when I'm transferring files between other computers which are connected to this modem, and when a torrent client is downloading from 20+ ...
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Is it possible to change the layer visibility (eye) icons to be more readable, in Photoshop Elements 11?
In previous versions of Photoshop Elements, the eye icon appeared as opened or closed to indicate a layer's visibility. In Photoshop Elements 11, the layer's visibility is only indicated by a diagonal ...
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Windows 7 Start Menu: classic-like (no 3rd-party software)
I want my Start Menu to look like the old classic ones (without the use of third-party software, if possible).
These are all the steps I've taken so far:
Computer Properties → Advanced system ...
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How to change the UI language in Google Drive?
There is currently no option to change the UI language in Google Drive.
Is it possible to change it somehow?
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Change Windows scroll bar dragging behavior on Windows 7
Though it is (as things often are) more complicated than this, assume for the purposes of this question that I am a new Windows user, coming from the Mac. I am trying to get certain Windows behaviors ...
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Everything becomes very large
I don't know why everything became so large. It wasn't like that before. I tried to look in the control panel, but I still can't find the way to make it normal again.
Windows 8, 1024 x 600, ...
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Can UI installation wizards be completed from the Windows command line? [closed]
Can the Windows command line control installation wizards or other UI wizards? (cmd.exe)
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Metrotwit does not display User Interface
I'm having trouble with MetroTwit on Windows 7 x64. The application installed fine, and also shows up in the process list in Task Manager, but does not display any UI whatsoever. There are no firewall ...
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Vimium-like navigation in Windows and all other applications
I used Vimium recently and was fascinated about its 'link hunt mode' feature. I wonder if there exists any tool like it in Windows such that pressing F would auto-assign a key combination for all UI ...
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How to remove http:// adding in addressbar of google-chrome/firefox?
Chrome add the http:// when I copy address from addressbar, i often paste the address to console, to ping or ssh, it is possible to copy only hostname from addressbar ? How to switch off that feature ...
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How can I flatten the Windows 7 classic Theme so that there are no more 3D bevels?
What I'm looking to do is flatten the appearance of the Windows 7 UI which I use with the built-in Classic theme. I can flatten the menus or I can apply a skinning utility, but these are not what I ...
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Is it possible to have several languages in Windows 8?
I had Windows 7 Ultimate before I upgraded to Windows 8 Pro and before, in Windows Update, there were updates that allowed me to install more language packs for Windows. After installing the updates I ...
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Quality condensed font for Linux [closed]
I'm on Linux and I'm looking for a quality, sans-serif, condensed font to use as a default in the UI.
The reason is, I'd like to save horizontal space; my laptop is 1600x1050 and the three-pane view ...
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How can I disable the addons-bar in firefox on startup
Recent Firefox (2 years+) features a so called addons bar which is usually used to house icons of user installed extensions. I would like some assistance disabling (hiding) that bar on startup.
The ...
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Is there any way to resize the tiles in MetroUI in Windows 8?
Well I really love the MetroUI in Windows 8 but is there any possibility to resize the tiles ?
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Where does the convention come from to use F9 for refresh?
Although in Windows F5 is the common (though not at all mnemonically appropriate!) keystroke to refresh the contents of a window, I've seen at least two different applications that use F9. One is the ...
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How to set window color by hex code in Windows8?
In Windows8 you can set window color from following path
Control Panel\Appearance and Personalization\Personalization\Color and Appearance
This has some predefined colors and a Color Mixer option. ...
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Create a draggable desktop inside another desktop (nested desktops)
Is there any software that makes it possible to create a draggable desktop inside another desktop (where one desktop acts like a window within the other desktop?) I think this would be an extremely ...
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Is there a way to sort Eclipse tabs by activity
Eclipse is really slow to open and close tabs (and do anything really) so I tend to never close the tabs. This means that the 6 tabs that you can see are generally not the files I am actually editing, ...
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Is there something like Unity Lens for Windows? [closed]
In Ubuntu you can easily look for apps and files by just writing it.
The search function on the Start menu on the other hand is really slow and not as versatile.
Is there an alternative?
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User interface navigable via game controller [closed]
I am not sure if this is the most apt place to ask this question, but I looked through all the sites so here goes.
I am repurposing an old desktop as a media center PC using Ubuntu(for the time ...
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How to disable hot tracking UI feature in Windows 7?
Is it possible to disable hot tracking in tree- and listview controls in Windows 7? I guess this is related to the Aero theme, but I don't want to switch to Classic. I would like to have Aero without ...
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Weird Windows 7 UI issues
I have some really weird and seemingly random Windows UI issues.. some parts of the UI are sometimes completely unresponsive (highlight animations are missing, nothing happens on click) such as the ...
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Ignore insufficient space while merging folders
The copy/move dialog in Windows Vista+ is nice including the ability to merge folders and the source analysis to determine if there is enough space before initiating the copy/move. One problem however ...
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How are called embedded potts/lines which indicate sliding in GUI? [closed]
I have attached an image which explains which element I am talking about. I am trying to find out it's proper name.
Can anyone help me please?
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No wrap when using find toolbar?
With current Firefox and apparently since 2005 exists an issue for some with finding text in a page.
If you are searching for text in a page and reach the bottom the search will wrap to the top. This ...
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Where does a Quick-Time powered application store changes to the user interface?
I have downloaded an application written with the Quick Time library (for Windows 7).
The application does not need an installation: just unzip it in a directory and run the program.
It works, but I ...
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How to get colour variations
I've got a colour scheme based on this link http://colorschemedesigner.com/#0141EmAMqnBmd
I need a total of 6 colours divided into 2 groups based on just two of the outlined colours below. Apologies ...
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Keyword Search on Contents of All Books in Kindle Library
I have a growing collection of reference books in Kindle reader. I often find that I would like to search for keywords in all of these reference books simultaneously. I rarely know which book has ...
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Mac OS X Zoom Button Hover Menu App
I saw today in a lecture at Uni a feature where hovering over the plus ('zoom') button presented a short horizontal menu of about four icons each of options of how to 'zoom' or maximize the content. ...
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AHK script to move the mouse pointer to a proportional place on the other monitor
I have two monitors, one computer, in windows 7.
I want to set up a keyboard shortcut to move the mouse pointer to a proportional place on the other monitor. i.e. if the pointer is in the center ...
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What's the best laptop keyboard for a carpal tunnel syndrome-sufferer? [closed]
Are there any laptops with special keyboards for a carpal tunnel syndrome-sufferer? I'm guessing the issue is the key-sensitivity here, but also shortcut keys(copypasta) easily available.
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Changing colors of old commands in scrollback buffer
In GNOME Terminal, is it possible to change the color of previous commands after typing new commands?
For instance:
$ ls (black)
test1 test2 test3 (black)
$
and then when I type a new command, the ...
