So, late on Friday you are typing away and see the little blue dot from the Software Updater built into KDE Neon. Maybe you are running Ubuntu and saw a message. Doesn’t matter how you made the decision to install updates late on a Friday, you are now screwed. Yeah. I know your pain. Why do you think I’m writing this post? I did this exact thing. I know better than install anything pushed out … KDE Neon – Ubuntu – Will Not Boot Properly After Kernel 5.3.0 UpgradeRead more
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The GDPR and Linux Distros
If you use a general purpose Linux distro which pulls from somewhere else (and they all pull from somewhere else) then you’ve experienced it when you tried to file a bug. Tickets file against Linux distros fall into two primary categories. Let it rot until it can be closed due to no longer supported version Flag it closed and tell the user to report it “upstream.” Today’s rant is about the second category because it … The GDPR and Linux DistrosRead more
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Secret to G fonts in LibreOffice on KDE Neon
The list of people who have been burned by this grows daily and still it won’t get fixed in Ubuntu based distros. Work with Linux Libertine in LibreOffice because that used to be the default font. Finish writing your book or other work which needs to be sent out for editing. Send it out to an editor who uses LibreOffice but uses it on Windows. “No problem” you think. “I used a standard LibreOffice font.” … Secret to G fonts in LibreOffice on KDE NeonRead more
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Qt – Printing – Taxes – Pt. 5
The knee-jerk response many developers will have is to just hack their own QTextDocument derived class. After all, it wouldn’t take much to add a document name to the class, nor would it take much to hack a version of printPage() to place the current date and document name at the top of the page along with the page number. You might even customize the print() method where pageNumberPos is calculated to make it a … Qt – Printing – Taxes – Pt. 5Read more
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Qt – Printing – Taxes – Pt. 4
Before I get into more coding on this topic, I need to cover some remedial information. The first is how we center a heading. Even when we had printer spacing charts we would write the text on scratch paper then put a slash every two characters, counting spaces as characters then we would count the slashes. When working with narrow form we would subtract the number of slashes from 40, with wide form it was … Qt – Printing – Taxes – Pt. 4Read more