Linux based Operating Systems
In Chrome and New Edge install Custom Style Script add-on to override Google’s home page background colour
In Custom Style Script select Open options Page and add the following URL and CSS
URL: https://www.google.com/ or country of choice, e.g. google.co.uk, google.de
CSS: body { background-color: lightgray !important; } or colour of choice
In Firefox Install the Stylus extension
Go to the Google home page, click the toolbar icon and choose Manage >
These notes apply to Kubuntu 18.04 and Thunderbird 60.9.1.
After Google restricted access for LSA’s (Less Secure Apps) it was necessary to change the Gmail account authentication method from “Normal Password” to OAuth2. After this gcontactsync failed – after logging into Google and successfully allowing access to Contacts it was blocked. After extensively trawling the net for a solution one was found. This said the problem was due to Thunderbird being corrupted and the solution offered was a complete rebuild – drastic but it worked!
If audio output device set to Dummy Device reset audio as follows:
pulseaudio --kill; sleep 2s; sudo alsa force-reload ; pulseaudio --start
Restart audio application(s), e.g. Spotify
This works with Ubuntu 18.04 and may work for other versions too
To add the Suspend icon to the KDE Application Menu
Similarly you can add or remove other shutdown icons.
Use Catfish to find files and file content quickly – note content search only works for text type files. Use Recoll for other file types.
Install using Synaptic Package Manager or from Terminal as follows:
sudo apt install catfish
Run it by selecting it from from Utilities or use the Search function and enter Catfish to locate.
Once running you should see screen below.
To search for content first click the settings cog and check “Search File Contents”.
If you don’t have a spare Mac or your Mac is too old to download macOS from the Apple App Store then use the method below.
Create account on hackintosh.download
The download required macOS from https://www.hackintosh.download/category/3-macos/
Insert a usb (16GB+ recommended) into Linux PC usb port and run Terminal
Use fdisk to determine your usb dev name letter, e.g. /dev/sdc. double check the target device letter to avoid overwriting the wrong drive.
Display details about firmware, cache, memory
$ sudo lshw -C memory
*-firmware
description: BIOS
vendor: FUJITSU // Phoenix Technologies Ltd.
physical id: 0
version: 6.00 R1.06.3012.A1
date: 04/21/2011
size: 110KiB
capacity: 4032KiB
capabilities: pci pnp upgrade shadowing escd cdboot bootselect int13floppynec int13floppytoshiba int13floppy360 int13floppy1200 int13floppy720 int13floppy2880 int5printscreen int9keyboard int14serial int17printer int10video acpi usb ls120boot zipboot biosbootspecification
*-cache:0
description: L1 cache
physical id: 5
slot: L1 Cache
size: 64KiB
capacity: 64KiB
capabilities: burst synchronous internal write-through data
configuration: level=1
...
*-memory
description: System Memory
physical id: 2a
slot: System board or motherboard
size: 16GiB
*-bank:0
description: DIMM DDR3 Synchronous 1067 MHz (0.9 ns)
product: 99U5471-021.A00LF
vendor: Toshiba
physical id: 0
serial: DE131F7C
slot: Slot-1
size: 4GiB
width: 64 bits
clock: 1067MHz (0.9ns)
...
This method depends on the iso file being designed as bootable, e.g Kaspersky Rescue Disk or Bitdefender Rescue CD, etc.
Plug in the USB flash drive and list its device name using fdisk
sudo fdisk -l . . . Disk /dev/sdc: 3.8 GiB, 4009754624 bytes, 7831552 sectors Units: sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes Disklabel type: dos Disk identifier: 0x052e500d Device Boot Start End Sectors Size Id Type /dev/sdc1 * 2048 7831551 7829504 3.8G c W95 FAT32 (LBA)
Unmount the device partition,
To fix do the following
sudo apt install xul-ext-lightning
Ref: StackExchange
For those who have upgraded to latest Thunderbird to find Calendar add-on is suddenly not compatible. The quick fix is to roll-back to last version as follows:
Display Thunderbird available versions
apt-cache show thunderbird | grep Version
Select last version to rollback to, e.g.
sudo apt-get install thunderbird=1:52.9.1+build3-0ubuntu0.14.04.1