The Linux front end of Mathematica (8.0.1.0) does not seem to have a Menu Bar which is apart from any given notebook. In any Windows front end I have used, there is a standalone Menu Bar which contains the usual: "File, Edit, Insert, Format, Cell, Graphics, Evaluation, Palettes, Window, Help". Each of the notebooks on my Linux front end have this menu, but I am looking to have one which stands alone.
In particular, I am looking to use the "Generate Notebook From Palette" option located in the Palette portion of the Menu Bar. The reason I require the stand alone bar is that the palette I want to convert to a notebook, the DocumentationTools palette which comes with Wolfram Workbench 2, does not have its own Menu Bar. Attempting to use the menu bar from a notebook associates the possible options with that notebook whereas, if I had a stand alone Menu Bar, I could make it so the 'active' notebook is this palette and then go to town converting the palette to a notebook.
In short:
How can I obtain a stand alone Menu Bar on a Linux front end of Mathematica?
or
How can I convert a palette to a notebook without a Menu Bar?
or
Does the DocumentationTools palette which comes with Wolfram Workbench 2 exist in a directory as a notebook file that I may be able to snag?
This seems to work under OS X so I can't guarantee that it will work on Linux, but to create a palette programmatically you could try the following
Open the Palette you're interested in,
Execute Notebooks[]
Set nb to whatever the notebook is belonging to the Palette
Run FrontEndTokenExecute[nb, "GenerateNotebook"]
It should then open a Notebook version in a new window.
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Microsoft Apps such as Word, Excel use custom colors in the window title bar. IntelliJ and BeyondCompare have chosen similar colored icons so to takes a few more of MY cycles to select the correct window when I am changing tasks.
Is there a way to tailor installed applications to have a specific title bar color perhaps using registry entries and themes. This would speed up task switches which I do continuously in development mode.
As a second choice, I am not adverse to creating an IntelliJ plugin that would zap the color if that would do the job but am not sure if there is a way to easily zap the title bar color in the Windows-10 API.
In Visual Studio Code, Terminal window is some inconvenient because of the width.
I want to widen the width from the end of screen to the end of screen.
Is it possible?
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As far as I'm aware, no, this isn't possible to some extent, but perhaps there are some extensions you could search around to see if they can do something similar.
Remember that using your PC's command terminal is also an option.
However, I've found that minimizing the left sidebar by dragging it to the left is an option, which increases the terminal width to the entire screen if this is what you're looking for:
Note doing that disables you from accessing that entire sidebar unless you drag it out again.
Whenever I open a new labview project, it opens two small windows, one for the block diagram and the front panel. Since using labview effectively requires simultaneous use of both, is it possible to set things up such that, upon starting a new VI, it opens these two windows in pre-determined positions and sizes?
I do not know setting to do so (and think there is no such setting), but your problem is easily solvable if you press ctrl+t when new vi is opened.
ctrl+t will set front panel on the left half part of the screen and block diagram on the right part. Pressing ctrl+t a second time will set the panel to top half and diagram to the bottom half.
Shortcuts In LabVIEW
Another workaround:
Create a new empty VI
Resize and reposition the front panel window as you wish
Do the same for the block diagram window
Save the VI as a template (.vit)
Double click the template to use it (position and size of windows will be as they were when saving)
Alternatively if you want to be doing manually everytime. You can press WIN+LEFT on one of the windows and WIN+RIGHT on the other. This will evenly distribute the two windows over the screen.
You can set window position for individual VIs by pressing Ctrl+I to open the VI properties, and setting the desired appearance under "Window Size"
I recently started using Lisp and Limp is the only available plugin for VIM. But, once I set it up and hit F12, the terminal like window that appears has a very small font size. I have a screen resolution of 1920x1080 and it's impractical to read such small fonts. I went through the man page of 'screen', but couldn't find any useful information on changing the font or font size. Is there a way to do this?
And how about using something like 'xterm' rather than 'screen'? I looked through the code of bridge.vim. I don't think it is too much of a task. Any ideas on this?
By screen, do you mean GNU screen?
GNU screen is a terminal emulator that runs in another terminal or emulator. It has no direct control over font sizes; it's purely text based. The window you're seeing must be some GUI terminal emulator; you haven't told us enough to guess which one (could be xterm, could be Gnome terminal, etc.).
For xterm, control-right-click should bring up the "VT Fonts" menu, which will let you select a different font. If none of the available fonts are to your liking, you can use X resources to reconfigure the options, including the choice for the default font.
xterm also supports a control sequence that sets the current font. You have to know the name of the font you want. xlsfonts will show you a very long list of font names (it just showed me 5594 of them). For example, if you run this from a shell running in xterm:
printf '\e]50;-misc-fixed-medium-r-normal--15-140-75-75-c-90-iso10646-1\a'
it should give you the font I usually use. But screen generally intercepts escape sequences like that, so it probably won't work from screen under xterm.
Other terminal emulators should have similar mechanisms.
Does anybody have an idea how to get rid of line numbers blue background?
It's quite distracting :(
Maybe there is some extension for deeper customization of Dreamweaver (CS5) ?
Even here: Tom’s dark DW dark code colorization for Dreamweaver it's still blue.
Thanks!
I don't think there is a way to change it. The line number bar is a hardcoded object and none of the CSS files or XML files affect it.
Actually, there is a way to change it.
By affecting the basic operation system's settings for the active line highlight color it's possible to achieve this effect.
It probably works on all windows platforms:
for this demonstration I ll explain how to do it on win7.
1. right click on the screen
2. choose personalize
3. window color / advanced appearance settings
4. choose 'selected items' from the drop-down menu
5. modify 'color1' to the color u wish to use in DW.
and its all done. DW inherits the operating system's default/modified color settings.
cheers, Nel.