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View and Edit PDF Documents Using Okular

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. Okular supporting annotating PDF pages but does not supporting adding/removing PDF pages.

  2. Okular supports rotating all pages of the whole PDF file but does not support rotating a single page …

Docker Images for Remote Desktop

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Tips and Traps

  1. x11docker runs GUI applications and desktops in docker and podman containers.

  2. NoMachine is recommended for remote Desktop.

  3. If VNC is used for accessing remote desktop environment in a …

Manage Autostart Applications

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Tips and Traps

  1. Autostart *.desktop configuration files are located in directories /etc/xdg/autostart and ~/.config/autostart/ . By default, autostart applications in /etc/xdg/autostart are not shown to users in …

Tips on Basket in KDE

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. Toolbar Settings -> Text Positions -> Text Under Icons give you more horizontal spaces

Shortcuts for KDE

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. KDE supports the Win/Super key to bring up the application launcher now. If you are on an older KDE distributions which does not have it by default, you can get …

Desktop Environments for Linux

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

  1. desktop files in /usr/share/applications/ different DEs might have different format. At least I know that a desktop file created by Xfce cannot be used in GNOME, not sure the …