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If you try to install the Openclipart extension for Libreoffice in Ubuntu 16.04, you might get this error:
Failed to register package for vnd.sun.star.expand:$UNO_USER_PACKAGES_CACHE/uno_packages/lu8331jgzjaf.tmp_/openclipart.oxt/python
To fix it, install libreoffice-script-provider-python like this:
Here is an example of how you can set up a back up system for a Drupal web site with Drush. Daily backups are kept for a week, after which they are deleted, and the weekly, full backups are deleted after 30 days. This script comes with no warranties of any kind, as always, test thoroughly before using it.
Open cron jobs from the terminal:
$ crontab -e
Insert this:
To quickly find the most used drush commands, execute this one-liner in your terminal:
history | grep drush | awk '{print $3}' | sort | uniq --count | sort --numeric-sort --reverse | head -30
To zoom pages by default in Firefox, open the about:config page via the location/address bar, and change the value of layout.css.devPixelsPerPx to fx 1.2, to zoom in 120% on all pages by default. This will also increase the size of icons and tabs, but this way you don't need an add-on for larger text on all web pages by default.
A few great add-ons for Firefox, which will improve security, download-speed and usability, and block Google WebP images:
The default PDF-reader in Ubuntu 16.04 is very plain and non-configurable, but it is easy to replace it with a better alternative, such as qpdfview, which is much more configurable.
"qpdfview is a tabbed document viewer using Poppler, libspectre, DjVuLibre, CUPS and Qt, licensed under GPL version 2 or later."
From: https://github.com/bendikro/qpdfview
Install qpdfview with this command:
Custom shortcuts in Ubuntu is a great way to speed up starting up programs, or focusing on them.
Jumpapp is a great tool to use together with custom shortcuts:
"The idea is simple — bind a key for any given application that will:
- launch the application, if it's not already running, or
- focus the application's window, if it is running
Pressing the key again will cycle to the application's next window, if there's more than one."
dr.dk is in the process of phasing out Flash (finally!) and use HTML5 in stead:
Udgivet 20. Sep. 2017 14:45
Hvornår skifter DR ’Flash’ ud med ’HTML 5’ på dr.dk/tv?
Vi er i gang med at udfase 'Adobe Flash Player', og inden årets udgang har vi erstattet Flash-playeren med en HMTL5-player.
FROM: https://dr.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/1254/
Drush is a powerful tool for building Drupal web sites. Here is much more information about Drush commands: https://drushcommands.com/
How to install Drush: http://docs.drush.org/en/8.x/install/
Here are some examples of how you can use it to update modules, as well as how to update Drupal core to a specific version.
Create a fresh project in a folder called "drupal" from make-file, with both core and modules
