I had a problem where my orgmode agenda had stopped displaying my “scheduled” items, which I require for my workflow. I must have been playing around with the customize group when I broke this, because that’s where I found the answer: I had set a non-zero number and needed to reset to 0 here: customize-variable Org Scheduled Delay Days

Recently many fonts are unusable in gimp because the underlying Pango library ceased to support bitmap fonts, resulting in the majority of fonts on my system being unusable by Gimp (including anything Adobe). When editing a form I filled out with gimp last year, I need to change all text fields (ie each field of the form) to one of the working fonts. This tedious task demands a more efficient solution if I’m going to be doing it repeatedly; apparently, it might be time for learning gimp plugins.

Courtesy of gnu manual, we can permanently save a keyboard macro for future use: https://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/Save-Keyboard-Macro.html The steps are as follows: perform macro (start with f3, then do your stuff and return to where you started, then stop recording with <f4>) name that macro kmacro-name-last-macro insert macro code into buffer insert-kbd-macro <RET> macro-name I want the ability to go into a let-form and, in the spirit of REPL debugging and development, bind the X VAL part of a (let [ .

This info worked from the Simplified guide: https://www.simplified.guide/linux/automatically-run-program-on-startup I wanted to start postgresql at startup, because I always end up starting it anyway. As a main-stream application I found it on the list: sudo systemctl list-unit-files --type=service Then I enabled it. sudo systemctl enable postgresql Done! If it hadn’t been on the list I suppose I would have had to make my own unit file for it, thereby adding it to the list.

I use light for managing my screen brightness in exwm, because the repo-available xbacklight fails for want of a recognizable xserver. One day my exwm just stopped finding “light” after using it for screen brightness for a year or two. When trying to re-install with the instructions on their repo, I kept getting this error: autoreconf: running: automake --add-missing --force-missing --warnings=portability autoreconf: no config.status: cannot re-make The solution turned out to be to skip the autogen part of the instructions and just move on:

A classic thread that gives a mature and responsible consideration of such things as ecosystem and tooling. In particular appreciate Mikera’s answer respecting Java’s extensibility as the more open of the two, which has led to things like Groovy, Scala, and Clojure (though Clojure also has a CLR version, it’s being hosted on the JVM is one of its super-powers). https://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/questions/51887/java-vs-c-productivity-perspective

I start with a list with a bunch of entries like this: newsletter W02 newsletter W02 newsletter W02 newsletter W02 EDIT: New Solutions It turns out that emacs automatically initializes a variable that tracks how many interations your replacement function has made, and in lisp mode you can get to it with \#. This way, the single line necessary to number all my newsletters becomes this: W\(02\) → W\,(format "%02d" (+ 4 \#))) and, of course, you can adjust that 4 to whatever you need it to be for your starting digit.

https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/e66ewg/make_gnus_sent_show_recipient_not_author/ I’m a GNUs user and am pretty happy with it. However, I have a “Sent” message group where the summary line is the same as everywhere else, meaning it includes the author (me!) and not the recipient. How can I change the summary line format in just the outgoing buffers (or, alternatively, if the author is me)? For reference, here’s my current insensitive line-format variable: (setq gnus-summary-line-format "%U%R%([%-30,30f]:%) %-50,40s(%&user-date;)\n") The winning solution?

Turns out resizing animated gifs with imagemagick is clumsy. Gifsicle does it quick and without fuss. Below is my command, taught by askubuntu. gifsicle --resize-width 600 helm-org-clock.gif -o hoc-smaller.gif This resizes my screen-capture gif to a scaled width of 600 and whatever height keeps the proportions, which dropped my size from 160k to 58k.

Although I’ve long had a habit of frequently changing my themes, even having a key chord set for that, at some point recently I became unable to switch to any light-background theme; it was always some shade of black. This became a real problem since Wikipedia in eww became unreadable for equations. I looked into this and found the answer from Sacha Chua, who pointed me to M-x customize-face default which had somehow had my default background set to some dark dark gray (I’m guessing when I was playing with persp mode).