There are many tools and resources that will be helpful for non-native English-speaking people to be more efficient in English learning. A while ago, I have posted The Ultimate offline Dictionary with Dictd in Linux. Today I’d like to share some other tools I use on a daily base. And hopefully this will be of help to someone.
A thorough list of appz for spell and grammar checker can ...
Continue Reading →Thunar allows users to add custom actions to the file and folder context menus, see more example xfce:thunar:custom-actions [Xfce Docs].
The following is how to set up a custom action in Thunar for context file restoration:
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Youtube-dl is a wonderful tool to procure media from Youtube. You can retrieve video and audio in the formats of your choice.
After rendering one of my old laptops into OS-less state by restoring the Arch Linux OS from another System without exclude the boot, following is what I did to recover the dual-boot system. I have to fix the MBR and Boot for windows first and then reinstall the grub ...
Continue Reading →This laptop doesn’t have any CD/DVD drive so the first thing is to make a bootable USB drive.
Boot into Windows 10. In Windows, download archlinux iso from the following website
https://www.archlinux.org/download/
Use the mirror which is closest to you and download the Arch iso. archlinux-2015.12.01-dual.iso
Download Rufus from the following location https://rufus.akeo.ie/
Plugin any ...
dictd installation Follow instruction here.
Inspired from here.
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I have been using the builtin Mode for a few months until I found out that Auctex is the ultimate Editor for Latex. I do not even know why people will use other Editor such as Lyx.
Emacs provides special major modes for editing files written in TeX and its related formats. TeX mode ...
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It turned to be not so trivial to setup Chinese for Latex in a Linux System. Hope this will help some souls.
Install Tex Live manually with tlmgr functioning.
Step-by-step installation instruction for Arch Linux is here.
Set variable for Tex Live installation directory,