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How to Run a Linux Desktop Environment using WSL2 and WSLg without VNC or RDP with Sound, Network and Systemd

Kali-Linux has an option to do that by kex --win -s or similar commands. But how can I do something similar to other distros. My focus is mainly on Debian Based Distros. Is it possible to do that? I ...
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Is it possible to enable the green center-line alignment guides in Microsoft Word on MacOS?

In Word for windows it is possible to get this nice green line showing when something is centered: This setting is controlled by the option "Use alignment guides" as shown here: However, ...
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How do I get the same version of Microsoft Outlook that I use on my work machine on my personal machine?

My work laptop has recently received an upgrade to Windows 11. Outlook has also updated and has a new UI (which I really like, which is why I want to have this version on my personal computer): New ...
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Linux WiFi menu (not settings) shows up in top-center alltough it should be in the top-right corner

As you can see in the screenshot above, the WiFi menu is at the top-center of the display, but it should be in top-right corner. I don't know what I did. Is there a way to get it back to its place?
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How to change icon selection colour on Windows 11 desktop?

I am using Windows 11 and have noticed some major UI changes since it's release. One such UI change I noticed is the icon on desktop when selected with mouse click a translucent box appears showing ...
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Add new buttons to MPV uosc UI

uosc is a customizable UI for MPV player. Looking into the uosc.conf file, there is this line about how to create new buttons: 'command:{icon}:{command}' - button that executes a {command} when ...
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Prevent Windows 11 from ever asking what to do with a newly attached drive

When I attach a new, unformatted drive to my Windows 11 VM, it keeps asking whether I want to format the drive, in order to use it. That question is superfluous, as I'm actually mounting a RasPi and I'...
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In Windows 10, how to automate a set of actions? i.e. turn the Internet off, wait 2 sec, turn on again

My Internet randomly disconnects and I have to go to Adapter options to turn it off and back on again in order for it to start working again. It's tedious and I wish I could just press a key combo to ...
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Why would a batch file application (which runs dll) have different resolution when run on VM?

Hello Everyone I am new to this platform and I am in the learning curve (dll or batch files). I have an application created by a third party which contains bunch of dll's and a windows batch file ...
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Curl command - output is different

when I run this command in the UI its returning 32 ids: http://csc2cxn00001736.cloud.kp.org:6080/api/v1/application/exchange/pickup?offset=0&orderBy=name while when I run this curl command in the ...
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Adjust blur strength of Windows UI. Is there a registry key that sets the strength of windows 10s UI blur effect?

I wanted to ask if there's a registry key/a way to patch the Window manager itself that allows me to adjust the strength of the blur used in f. ex. Windows 10s start menu. Found a way to completely ...
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iTerm2: Is it possible to save different margin settings when in full-screen mode?

There is a Side margins and Top & bottom margins settings available in Preferences -> Appearance -> Panes but it doesn't seem to be available in Profiles to any setting specific to Full ...
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Some text in Windows 10 system programs disappeared after computer froze

So I was loading this large page on Google Chrome when my computer froze for a few seconds then unfroze. After it unfroze, some percentage of my task manager text disappeared. The data/time in the ...
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Dark Mode inconsistencies in Windows 10 / 11 UI

Dark Mode settings in Windows 10 (and Windows 11) are only partially implemented and inconsistent, which is odd, and sometimes jarring (when you are in File Explorer and then open up a Properties ...
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Set background color of Windows 10 File Explorer Preview Pane?

I'm a big fan of dark mode, but I'm severely annoyed by the fact that the Preview Pane of Windows 10 File Explorer is completely white for file like .cpp, .h, .cs, etc... and I looked around the web ...
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What's the difference between "Update all" and "Get updates" in Microsoft App Store? - and "Open" vs "Get"?

The current version of the Microsoft Store (running on Windows 10 21H2, if that matters) has two buttons that seemingly do the same thing: A hyperlink-style button labelled "Update all" A ...
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Firefox option to enable better search visibility

I sometimes have trouble quickly scanning all the "found" items resulting from a Find dialog in Firefox. Firefox find appearance In Safari, the page dims and only the found strings are ...
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PowerShell, programmatically set TaskBar colour

I have some home servers that I access, and also Windows Sandbox on my main system. Sometimes I lose track of which RDP session I am in or the Sandbox when I am in full-screen sessions and it occurred ...
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Windows 11 how to highlight focused window in system tray

When you hover an application which has multiple windows open in the system tray, previous versions of Windows showed a visual difference in the previews which pop up, for the window which has focus. ...
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Locating error cells in spreadsheet ranges

I have a large spreadsheet in which the minimum of one of the columns (containing formulæ) in a table shows an error (in this case #DIV/0!), and I would like a way to find the cell or cells in error ...
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Is it possible to disable the close button unless the window is focused? (Windows 10)

From time to time, I close the wrong windows by mistake. That is because I want to close the focused (i.e. topmost) window but mistook the close button of another window as the close button of the ...
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In Windows Media Player, for an album "Turner and Kirwan of Wexford, WMP shows Ike and Tina Turner. Is there any way to 'fix' that?

Windows Media Player shows the WRONG "Artist" for Album(s). As an example, I have "Turner and Kirwan of Wexford" "Absolutely and Completely" for which WMP displays Ike ...
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Too big UI of few programs, and to big webpages

In my Microsoft Edge, and Firefox program UI are too big, and also contents of webpages are too big. I have set 100% dpi, no custom scaling. This issue appear only in Firefox and Edge. How can I fix ...
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How to stop windows from putting drop shadow on desktop icon text?

This article shows you how to remove the drop shadow and it does work. But then something happens and windows decides to put the drop shadow back even though the setting is set: Again it does remove ...
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How to disable all chromium animations?

I'd like to disable all the chromium ui animations, especially new tab and moving tabs animations. I really don't like ui animations anywhere, they don't only decreases performance on old hardware but ...
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Is it possible to lock the value of a LibreOffice setting to work around a likely bug?

I am possibly encountering another LibreOffice Calc bug: as of LibreOffice v7.4.0.3, my experience is that Calc no longer remembers the size of the window when Calc is closed. This also prevents ...
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Copy / Paste UI missing, moving really slow - windows 10

having a really strange issue with my laptop. When I try to copy files in Windows explorer either using the context menu or CTRL+C and paste them, I do not get the standard UI for copy / paste. ...
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How to change interface direction in Windows? [duplicate]

I am currently using Windows 10 in English, which is a left-to-right language. But I wish I can still have English as my system and interface language, but the whole interface is reversed from left-to-...
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A way to revert start menu search results background after Win 10 KB5011543?

It appears that some changes to Search in https://support.microsoft.com/en-au/topic/march-22-2022-kb5011543-os-builds-19042-1620-19043-1620-and-19044-1620-preview-4fe2d1c0-720f-47fe-9523-75339bc107a1 ...
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moving a control inside an application [closed]

I wanted to know if there is any tool that can allow me to move UI elements inside an application using script? The details: My father has glaucoma and his field of sight is very limited towards its ...
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In Windows file explorer, how to quickly jump to file based on MORE THAN ONE letter?

In windows file explorer, if I hit a letter like "r", I'll immediately jump to a file/folder beginning with the letter "r", which is quick and super convenient. But is there a way ...
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Very old, crispy font in certain UIs in Windows 11

I've installed Windows 11 today on one of my machines and I have noticed that LICEcap (and some other apps) has a very old, crispy font in certain elements of the UI. A font that I remember back in ...
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How to close HP Audio switch interface without restarting?

How do I make this HP Audio switch interface go away without restarting my computer?
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How can keep the interface unchanged when input focus moving with mouse?

Info on my os and window manager and desktop environment. debian@debian:~$ uname -a Linux debian 5.10.0-11-amd64 #1 SMP Debian 5.10.92-2 (2022-02-28) x86_64 GNU/Linux debian@debian:~$ dpkg -l ...
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In Windows, what's the purpose of the crossed checkbox

I was looking at the images found in aero.msstyles when I found that the checkbox has a (supposedly unused) variant of the checkbox with a cross instead of a checkmark. I quickly confirmed that this ...
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Mozilla Firefox : activate reader view by default whenever possible [duplicate]

I really enjoy Mozilla Firefox's Reader Mode, however it requires clicking on the button everytime I open a new page. Is it possible to specify that I want Reader Mode to be active by default whenever ...
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Remove trend line from a Power BI line chart with continuous x-axis

I need to remove the trend line from my Power BI line chart. The trend line was automatically generated and is not meaningful in my data analysis. I can't find an option to remove it. The trend line ...
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Windows 10 now displays English in some parts of non-English OS version

I recently started noticing parts of my Windows 10 OS in English when they should be in Portuguese, as it has always been. This wasn't a big deal, but it was nagging after a while so I wanted to ...
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What could be causing this on multiple sites?

I have added no new chrome themes or extensions, and I have not changed my dark mode settings. I just woke up this morning, and some websites have graphical glitches like the one above and ...
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In Windows 10 21H2, how to change the target of a folder shortcut if the Shortcut tab is not available in Properties dialog?

In Windows 10 21H2, how to change the target of a folder shortcut if the Shortcut tab is not available in Properties dialog? I googled but had no luck.
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How can I create a clickable list that will apply one of various formulas to a column?

I've been given a project to revamp an Excel tool that my company uses to convert grades from foreign systems to US ones. Currently, they use a dumb spreadsheet that they fill out by hand. I've ...
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Windows 10: how to select multiple disks (in order to to eject them all at once)?

Suppose: How to select multiple disks (in order to to eject them all at once)? If not possible, then is it a defect? Is there a need to report it to Microsoft?
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How to enable "One Line UI" on Chromium based browsers?

Firefox has this very neat feature called (confusingly enough) userChrome.css which enables users to customize the browser's UI itself through a CSS file. I am using it mainly to have a one-line UI in ...
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How to disable Firefox from opening "tel" links

On a certain website, you have to click a button to show the phone number, and at the same time it opens the "tel:" link, which opens an annoying popup "allow this website to open tel ...
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Loop steps in karate UI automation based on size

I have a karate UI feature file Issue:- In the file i have a step where there are n addresses and based on clicking each address i move forward to the next page/action. I want to do this dynamically ...
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How to reject LibreOffice Calc autocomplete suggestion?

LibreOffice Calc likes to aggressive suggest cell content based on a prefix. It is easy to accept the suggestion by hitting ENTER. But how to I reject it, which is something that is needed even more ...
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In Windows 10, how can we set an application to be the default for all of its supported file types?

I don't have much experience with the newer versions of Windows, and I'm having trouble doing something that I remember used to be possible in Windows 7. When a program is installed, it was possible ...
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Thunderbird 78.0: possible to change selected email highlight color (when no focus)?

recently thunderbird 78.0 change a big way its UI. Although the changes are mostly good ones, I find that it is much less easy to see what element is selected (for example is the focus on the folders ...
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What is the correct term for when a web browser auto-adjusts vertical scrolling depending on webpage content?

What is the correct term for when a web browser auto-adjusts vertical scrolling depending on webpage content? This feature is supposed to help with viewing webpages, but I would like to try turning it ...
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Is there a shortcut for the "Home" button in Citrix Virtual Desktop?

Is there a shortcut for the "Home" button in Citrix Virtual Desktop (CDViewer)? Or is there a way to configure it? I am not searching for the shortcut to swap between full-screen and window-...
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