The One with the Thoughts of Frans

Geany has a nice story about named matching groups in the manual, but those don't seem to work in the actual find & replace dialog.
In contrast to Dropbox, Discord doesn't try to hide logging in.
Basic support for E Ink refreshes on a limited number of Android E Ink devices.
I don't understand why so many places make signing in so hard.
At least they were nice enough to abide by my rules. :)
A 16 character maximum? How am I supposed to work with that? Grmbl.
mklink is a rather useful command for shuffling large directories around without requiring application support (e.g., large games from HDD to SSD or vice versa).
A recent update broke Enpass. Hopefully it'll be fixed again soon, but in the meantime…
As one of the maintainers of KOReader, a versatile a document and image viewer, I'm proud to announce the latest release.
Since I don't use Steam that much I don't know when it was added, but it's nice that Steam is no longer tiny on my UHD monitor.
Such a rare occurrence, how nice that I can resize it, I thought. Until I actually tried to resize it.
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A new stable release, with support for BQ/Fnac devices!
Everything to the right of the breadcrumbs is a giant button to activate location entry. Very elegant.
To use the composite and transform transition it needs something to composite to.
The simplest way is to add synclient TapButton3=2 to your ~/.bashrc.
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Featured posts

KOReader 2024.11 “Slang”
By Frans / November 20, 2024
KOReader 2019.04
By Frans / April 6, 2019
GUN Tar
By Frans / March 26, 2019
Six Years of KOReader
By Frans / February 22, 2018

Drawings

Trois champignons
By Frans / April 27, 2016
By Frans / June 8, 2010

Writing

Tunnel Anxiety
By Frans / April 7, 2013
By Frans / March 17, 2013
By Frans / July 22, 2012

Internet

By Frans / February 2, 2014

Linux and more

KOReader 2024.11 “Slang”
By Frans / November 20, 2024

Thoughts on books

Of Horology and Letters
By Frans / January 21, 2017

Photography

On My Header Image
By Frans / December 23, 2012
Fireworks on the Scheldt
By Frans / January 1, 2010
By Frans / April 7, 2006
By Frans / March 25, 2006