magnifier in Ubuntu Unity

I like unity desktop but mangifier does not work out of the box. Install ccsm and ccsm-plugin, sudo apt-get install compizconfig-settings-manager compiz-plugins In assessibility, enable magnifier and change hotkey to something else. The default Super-m is overrided by Unity-dash for music search.   Update: Alternatively, we can zoom in and out with Super-Z and shift-Super-Z.

Visualize Delaunay mesh with MeshLab

To visualize a Delaunay mesh using MeshLab, you’d typically be visualizing the 3D Delaunay triangulation (or tetrahedrization) of a set of points. Here’s how you can do that: Input Data: Ensure you have a set of 3D points in a format that MeshLab can read (e.g., .ply, .xyz, .obj, etc.). If your Delaunay mesh is…

A yield example from chatgpt

def count_up_to(n): “””Generator that counts from 1 up to n.””” count = 1 while count <= n: yield count count += 1 # Using the generator for number in count_up_to(5): print(number)

22.04 save not focus bug

Workaround available for the very annoying bug (from here) Install Devilspie 2 from the standard repositories or, if you want the latest version, which has several improvements, compile from source direct from the Devilspie 2 Github. Add devilspie2 to your autostart programs. Create the file ~/.config/devilspie2/devilspie2.lua (you can use a different file name; read the instructions for details). In this…

gpg error for dropbox

I got this frustrating errors W: http://linux.dropbox.com/ubuntu/dists/disco/Release.gpg: Key is stored in legacy trusted.gpg keyring (/etc/apt/trusted.gpg), see the DEPRECATION section in apt-key(8) for details. After over an hour of googling and back and forth with gpt4, this one as below resolved it temporarily. Thanks!  This worked.   For others that run into this problem: Use a…

Unable to use fitz with python 3.8

I use pymupdf to automatically sign my document. But the package name is pymupdf even the warning is that “fitz”  is not installed. If come across an error message like import fitz File “/home/phsamuel/p3/lib/python3.10/site-packages/fitz/__init__.py”, line 1, in <module> from frontend import * File “/home/phsamuel/p3/lib/python3.10/site-packages/frontend/__init__.py”, line 1, in <module> from .events import * File “/home/phsamuel/p3/lib/python3.10/site-packages/frontend/events/__init__.py”, line…

OpenCV and QT on 22.04

I got error Could not load the Qt platform plugin “xcb” in “” even though it was found Even following this did not solve the problem. But it seems that going headless works. That is, pip uninstall opencv-python pip install opencv-python-headless

hotkey for taking screenshots

Suddenly Ubuntu does not show the window of how to deal with a screenshot after taking one. It still was not solved. But I guess it is better to just add “Ctrl” to grab a shot.  

No bold math in latex

I got this “bug” for a long time and ignored it. Eventually it seems like coming from \renewcommand{\sfdefault}{cmss} which I am not sure where I copied from. This seems to set sans font to cmss, which probably doesn’t bold math.