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Wine System Tray on Gnome Shell Fedora 32

I love gnome-shell I love the simplicity, the integration of the all the system settings in one place and the ability to extend it with extensions But it looks like in their quest to align with the Fisher-Price Desktop Standard they have trimmed some functionality...

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Password Safe .desktop File

Been struggling to come to terms with Gnome Shell removing the Windows System Tray functionality Have installed some extensions to get tray icons showing sudo dnf install gnome-shell-extension-topicons-plus sudo dnf install gnome-shell-extension-appindicator sudo dnf...

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The COVID Configuration

I've been stuck at home for a few months now due to COVID-19 isolation. My wife comments regularly on how hunching over my Macbook Pro all day gives me much spine curvature. "Bad posture", "Terrible posture" etc. So I haveĀ  a solution which will bring my head up to a...

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Moving from Evernote to Onenote

Just a couple of observations regarding moving from Evernote to Onenote. This is further to my previous blog post https://toggen.com.au/it-tips/how-to-export-evernote-notebooks-to-onenote Allow sufficient time for Notebooks to Sync to OneDrive / Sharepoint When you...

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Cloudready on VMWare Fusion on MacOS

Trying to get Cloudready going on VMWare Fusion on Mac I downloaded CloudReady-Home-v78-x64.ovf and discovered I had to rename it to CloudReady-Home-v78-x64.ova to get VMWare Fusion to import it. Enable in VM Virtualisation to Complete Linux (Beta) Terminal...

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How to Export Evernote Notebooks to Onenote

Just wrestled mightily with doing an export of Notebooks from Evernote with Onenote as the target Microsofts importer DOES NOT work and they have no interest in making it work. DO NOT USE IT. I observed that many of the titles and content were missing Apparently you...

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gLabels Build Script for Ubuntu 18+

I think the default Ubuntu GLabels package doesn't contain one of the barcode libraries I use to create labels so this is the script I use to compile glabels #!/bin/sh sed -Ei 's/^# deb-src /deb-src /' /etc/apt/sources.list apt-get install cmake apt-get -y build-dep...

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QNAP 4.3 QVPN Service on Android

I'm using the OpenVPN Connect client on Android and using the QNAP created VPN file with a few small changes: # added so the OpenVPN Connect client doesn't # complain about missing client cert client-cert-not-required # I uncheck the Use remote network as default...

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