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Comment Post #292289 Which distro do you have? Maybe something like `echo $XDG_CURRENT_DESKTOP` is worth a try.
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Comment Post #291467 "dark theme": the bowers add-on "Darkreader" works really well on codidact
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Answer A: Highlight regions in an image with CLI
Another possibility is to use LaTeX. There are several ways in which you could use it to add a polygon on top of an image, one way is TikZ: ``` % !TeX program = txs:///arara % arara: pdflatex: {synctex: on, interaction: nonstopmode, shell: yes} \documentclass[tikz,convert]{standalone} \beg...
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Comment Post #288009 Maybe have a look at https://github.com/shundhammer/qdirstat
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Comment Post #287735 Look into pandoc templates to configure the look and feel of the result.
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Answer A: How to convert PDF to docx
Pdf is one of the most unsuitable file formats to use as a starting point for converting it to docx. A pdf by itself is pretty much "dumb", it knows the position of letters etc, but not much more. You want to take a step further up in your workflow to where your pdf came from. If you have the lat...
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Comment Post #287711 If you can export to html or have the latex source, you can use pandoc to make a much better conversion to word. A pdf file simply does not have enough information to create a useful docx.
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Comment Post #287711 Did you create the pdf from something? Maybe export from there would be easier...
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Answer A: How to convert PDF to docx
If your goal is to make small edits to the resulting document, you can use LibreOffice with the following command: ``` soffice --infilter="writerpdfimport" --convert-to docx document.pdf ``` This will produce an editable document, however each text chunk is enclosed in it's own box for positi...
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Comment Post #287333 The line `export PATH="/home/hg/cpython-3.11/python3.11:$PATH` seems to be missing the closing `"`. Did you add them somewhere?
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Comment Post #287333 Do you want to replace your previous python with 3.11 or do you want to install it in addition to the existing version?
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Comment Post #287333 It might be helpful if you would also mention your operating system. And this might be a stupid question, but did you double check that you are using bash as shell and not something else like zsh?
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