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The middle mouse button working as a paste button for the primary selection, that is, text you've copied by selecting it, is standard behavior in X11 apps. I know Firefox goes to the URL contained in the primary selection when you click the middle mouse button, so it wouldn't be beyond the realm of reason to assume the same thing for Opera. If you want to know more about this exciting subject, read jwz's X Selections, Cut Buffers, and Kill Rings.
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Athas posted:so it wouldn't be beyond the realm of reason to assume the same thing for Opera. Also no Alt + d for the address bar gets me every time, however it can be configured to work.
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| # ? May 28, 2008 07:54 |
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I was just reminded: Any downloadable app that comes named "setup.exe" or "install.exe" I don't mind hard to figure out names, but using setup.exe just kills me.
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| # ? May 28, 2008 08:37 |
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loving this: Is it too loving hard to not have the taskbar menu come up when I right-click on anything in the tray? The worst part is that some menus then remain visible until you click on them, but they hover behind the taskbar, and don't disappear until you click on one of the options. I love looking at version information just to make it vanish!
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| # ? May 28, 2008 10:33 |
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Mr Crucial posted:loving this: This seems to happen a lot less in Vista for me. I'm not sure if it's explorer or poorly coded system tray code that causes it. Probably a horrific combination.
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Mr Crucial posted:loving this: Ugh, yes, this. And a similar problem, oftentimes when I'm trying to read a tooltip that actually keeps useful information - the current date with the clock, download progress with my download manager, or whatever - it will actually appear behind the taskbar no matter how many times I try to read it. I have no idea what causes this, nor how to fix it; it seems to happen entirely at random, and later on stop at random. It's extremely aggravating to deal with.
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| # ? May 28, 2008 11:46 |
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ZeeBoi posted:I'm waiting for YouTube to add the option of turning autoplay off. How then do you propose the performance of a successful Rick Roll?
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enjoyable human being GBS King posted:I still use my Nero 5.5 that came with my DVD writer way back when, and it seems to do me fine. Despite my previous stance, Roxio Creator is actually pretty good since Sonic bought them. I remember when Roxio bought it from Adaptec and in a single revision made it the worse horseshit ever. That's when I started playing with Nero (verison 4). After Nero became crap (version 5.9) I started using free apps like CDBurnerXP and several others. Roxio Creator came free on my new laptop and I figured it couldn't hurt to try. It loads pretty dang fast. It doesn't hide a lot from even a novice user (though it's a basic burning app, so there's not a lot *to* hide). For basic burning it's great. My only real complaint is that it's a horrible bubbly skinned....thing. But gouging out my eyes has become extremely common as of late, so it's not a lose-out like it once was.
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| # ? May 28, 2008 12:08 |
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Mr Crucial posted:loving this: The bottom option in a window's context menu is cocksucking close, not goddamned loving properties. Right-click-left-click should make fewer windows, not more. 
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Whenever the library re-installs the computers at the desk, they switch back to 1024x768, the native resolution of the monitor is 1280x1024. Everyone agrees that 1280x1024 looks nicer, but it never gets changed. Our catalogue is a bit weird too, writing down all the annoyances will take to long, but i've run into this one a lot today. We've put all the "True stories" in their own category because people asked for that and they like to browse all the sob stories of criminals, drug addicts and other filth in one go. There is only one problem, the system we use for the customer catalogue never displays our own local category but chooses to display the "official" (and often non-sensical) category. This sends them on wilde goose chases along all the categories until they angrily ask me where the hell we keep the book they're looking for. I can see the category under "extra" but the system just doesn't display that for them and it's loving over customers.
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| # ? May 28, 2008 13:04 |
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Idran posted:Ugh, yes, this. And a similar problem, oftentimes when I'm trying to read a tooltip that actually keeps useful information - the current date with the clock, download progress with my download manager, or whatever - it will actually appear behind the taskbar no matter how many times I try to read it. I have no idea what causes this, nor how to fix it; it seems to happen entirely at random, and later on stop at random. It's extremely aggravating to deal with. Have I got exciting news for you! This was posted in this very thread, I think.
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| # ? May 28, 2008 13:54 |
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Screw Nero, you all need to go download Imgburn. It's free software that does pretty much anything Nero can without the bloat.
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Applications that come as installers when a regular archive would work fine. No, I do not need an uninstaller that probably won't work and a billion shortcuts to an application that consists of a single executable and probably won't get used more than once. I do not need a loving fifteen step wizard to extract a file into a directory. Luckily, 7-Zip is pretty good at pulling files out of installers.
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scottch posted:Have I got exciting news for you! This was posted in this very thread, I think. Oh, awesome. If it was, I must not have noticed. Thanks!
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| # ? May 28, 2008 15:54 |
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Which genius Ubuntu developer decided that the right click context menu will only open while you HOLD the right button? It's such a stupid tiny thing but every loving time I'm trying to right click, then save an image I always end up "switching page direction" because the dialog instantly opens and closes because I right clicked (uh why do I even need this option, I only read left to right thanks) It looks like this only occurs when I save an image that is at the lower half of the screen (i.e. the context menu is ejected from above the mouse, not below as normal)
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| # ? May 28, 2008 16:26 |
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Elderly men are to independent PC-Shop owners what a fly is to a spider. My father wanted a new PC and insisted on this shop (unfortunately I'm not in the same town as he). He was recommended an expensive 3D-card (that he did not need). I talked with him about that and he told the man he'd go with integrated graphics instead. Today my father calls me and tells me his screen is really blurry and he phoned the shop owner who told him to get the card. Its superior digital signal (DVI as opposed to analogue VGA) would improve image quality. I asked my father to improve image quality by adjusting the slider setting for resolution, and he matched screen resolution and output resolution, which saved him more than 100EUR. Seriously, I have a lot of sympathy for you guy, not being part of a large corporation and all, but please don't try silly stunts like this. In other news: - I don't like how Ubuntu's loading screen is distorted because I have a wide screen display. - I don't like Ubuntu to give me error messages when I shut it down which are totally insignificant. Try to keep up appearances! - I don't like how the image is distorted, when I fullscreen (yes, used as a verb) what my webcam sees, because I have a wide screen. It feels good to nag.
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Another thing I've seen some local competition do is tell a customer they need a GeForce 8800 type card, order it then keep it for themselves and let the guy run on integrated video. It's pretty damned close to fraud but most people get away with it because the average customer is ignorant and they can use the "oh sorry we forgot it" excuse. I caught an employee doing this once and fired him for it. Hope that Radeon 9800 Pro was worth it Mike.
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IndustrialPope posted:Whenever the library re-installs the computers at the desk, they switch back to 1024x768, the native resolution of the monitor is 1280x1024. Everyone agrees that 1280x1024 looks nicer, but it never gets changed. If they're using a sysprepped image, tell them to read up on sysprep.ini, in which you can specify a resolution. Default is 1024x768 if you don't specify, which leads me to believe that this is the issue.
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tripwire posted:Which genius Ubuntu developer decided that the right click context menu will only open while you HOLD the right button? It's working normally here, maybe your mouse is broken?
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Mr Crucial posted:loving this: This only happens to me when I'm using the touchpad on my laptop. Since I figured that out, I'm more careful with my fingers and it happens a lot less. My grief is for installers that run from CD, but won't run or install correctly if you copy the CD to your hard drive and run setup from there. My boss showed me that if you map the folder as a drive it will work, since the installer is expecting to be in the root of its drive.
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Rogue Istari posted:This poo poo: Yeah this actually pisses me off too, I could see it being a great OPTION to have that some people might like, but I want to be able to turn it off.
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The Gunslinger posted:Another thing I've seen some local competition do is tell a customer they need a GeForce 8800 type card, order it then keep it for themselves and let the guy run on integrated video. It's pretty damned close to fraud but most people get away with it because the average customer is ignorant and they can use the "oh sorry we forgot it" excuse. That's not damned close to fraud, that IS fraud, just with a backup plan in case they get caught.
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The Gunslinger posted:Another thing I've seen some local competition do is tell a customer they need a GeForce 8800 type card, order it then keep it for themselves and let the guy run on integrated video. drat that's low. I always just ask the customer if they'll be playing games made in the last three years. No gives them a recommendation to stick with integrated, yes gives one of a 8600 GT or 9600 GT. If they brought their machine in, I'll install it while they wait for 20 bucks.
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I love Ctrl+W. A good number of basic OS applications support Ctrl+W for closing tabs/windows when empty (even XP's Explorer supports it!), and as a keyboard junkie, I love not stretching for the awkward Alt+F4 keystroke anymore. But I hate when it doesn't work when I expect it to and I get nothing but a 'Ding!' sound.
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duz posted:It's working normally here, maybe your mouse is broken? No, this is not an issue with my hardware (I've tried different mice). It seems to be a problem with gnome or with firefox. Ive noticed its only triggered when I'm clicking on a maximized window. Maximize firefox, then right click on an image no the bottom of the screen in firefox. It doesn't work if you right click into space, it seems it only applies to right clicking on an image. Edit: great, I was noticing it just minutes ago but now I can't reproduce it.
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flakeloaf posted:I'm stealing your image for another complaint: That's for the taskbar, not the Window. There is no close option for the taskbar. Properties is the correct option for that. Not for anything else though.
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DevastatorIIC posted:drat that's low. I always just ask the customer if they'll be playing games made in the last three years. No gives them a recommendation to stick with integrated, yes gives one of a 8600 GT or 9600 GT. If they brought their machine in, I'll install it while they wait for 20 bucks. 8600GT or 9600GT? That's like giving a gamer a choice of Xbox or Xbox360. Do you ask them what kind of gaming they do? As someone who is going from an 8600GT to something the level of a 9600GT, I can tell you the performance with some games on those cards is night and day. My 8600GT runs 1-2 year old games on medium and gets like 6,000 points in 3DMark06. A 9600GT runs current games on high and gets like 11,000 points in 3DMark06.
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Casao posted:That's for the taskbar, not the Window. There is no close option for the taskbar. Properties is the correct option for that.  Grrrgh.The command prompt doesn't need a properties listing. It needs a close box, a maximize box and... no, no that's all it needs. Seriously.
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flakeloaf posted:
The Microsoft Management Console does this too and it drives me insane. You'd think they could standardize that tiny piece of the UI. Also, seconding ImgBurn as a free alternative to Nero. All the functionality I need and none of the useless crap.
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HPL posted:I don't like widescreen monitors. But then you folks in the Asus eeepc thread already knew that. Good luck with that. 4:3 is dead and I doubt there will be many monitors in that aspect ratio 5 years down the road.
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flakeloaf posted:
Properties is necessary, ever go in there? Try it, it has some useful options. Doesn't need to be on the bottom though.
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Casao posted:Properties is necessary, ever go in there?  . Nothing in that menu interests me, though I'm sure someone has intentionally used more than one of those settings in the past.
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Mr Crucial posted:
Watching a movie using Haali Media Splitter and want to change the subtitles? Just right click on th-- Oh, goddammit! This happens several times a day, every day I watch a video (re: every single day). I'd gladly kill a man, Klondike Bar style, to make this go away.
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Corbet posted:Good luck with that. 4:3 is dead and I doubt there will be many monitors in that aspect ratio 5 years down the road. 
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flakeloaf posted:All the friggin time
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Quick edit is the greatest thing to happen to DOS since himem.sys.
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withak posted:Quick edit is the greatest thing to happen to DOS since himem.sys. DOS4GW
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poo poo Copter posted:You seriously don't use quick edit? (I always make mine green on black too.) Changing the colors is cool, but I never actually do it. Green on black, amber on black, white on blue, purple on white if ya feel psychedelic...I always go back to gray on black after like five minutes I think I bitched about this already, but it's still pissing me off: When searching the web for a song, book, game, whatever, I get a lot of results like "This track isn’t available yet", "Be the first to write a review for", "0 items found for", and so forth. Thanks internet, if I wanted somebody to say "I've heard of them but I've never heard them" I'd go ask a real person. Search is worthless when you get poo poo like this. Just because eBay or last.fm or whatever else is a big site they get thrown into web results without any actual information. nail fucked around with this message at May 29, 2008 around 05:59 |
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liquidXenon posted:Also, seconding ImgBurn as a free alternative to Nero. All the functionality I need and none of the useless crap. This needs to be pointed out over and over. ImgBurn does everything Nero did for me, plus more. It's also free and very compact.
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Tapedump posted:Please, please tell me one of you all-knowers has a fix for this! I think, as someone already may have mentioned, this is application-specific behaviour, ie lovely programming. The Gmail notifier does it without fail, as do one or two other apps I have, but Outlook, Messenger and the volume icon never do it. So I think options for fixing it include raising it with the devs as an issue, changing which app you use, or sucking it up, unfortunately.
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