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Configuration Tips

These are largely my own personal notes on how to configure the GUI to be less annoying, less bloated and first of all more responsive. I just made them public in case anyone else happened to share my opinion on settings.

Firefox

Scrollbars loose track of the mouse when it strays too far away: Go to about:config and set slider.snapMultiplier to 1000.

Chrome & Opera

Opera (and thus possibly also Chrome) starts in DirectSound mode which isn't impelmented very well on many professional sound cards. The solution is to force the browser to use WaveOut by starting it up like this:
C:\Programs Files\Opera\launcher.exe --force-wave-audio

UTF-8 in irssi/screen/putty

In the Putty configuration go to Window -> Translation and choose "UTF-8" in the dropdown.
Under "Window" -> "Appearance" choose a font that supports the desired language.
Example: "MS Gothic" works for japanese. It might be necessary to install the corresponding language pack to even get these fonts, and it will not work without the proper fonts.
Make sure you start up screen with the -U parameter (also necessary when re-attaching to an existing screen.)
screen -U irssi
In irssi give the following commands:
/set term_charset UTF-8 /set term_recode OFF
After setting all the above, you might have to quit and restart irssi.

UTF-8 in MySQL under FreeBSD

Make sure you do this before anyone starts using the database.
Add or edit the file "/var/db/mysql/my.cnf" so that you have this:

[mysqld] init_connect=’SET collation_connection = utf8_general_ci’ init_connect=’SET NAMES utf8’ default-character-set=utf8 character-set-server=utf8 collation-server=utf8_general_ci skip-character-set-client-handshake

Samplitude

Go to the dedicated page for more info.

EditPlus and PHP

In order to make EditPlus save files compatible with PHP while doing web pages in UTF-8 format, you have to disable the "byte order mark" that some UTF-8 text files have, because PHP doesn't understand these. Also you might as well always use "unix linefeeds" as the CR character is obsolete. (Notepad.exe is the only application that needs them)

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Windows Tricks

Put a JPEG image here: C:\Windows\System32\oobe\info\backgrounds\backgrounddefault.jpg and then run this .reg file to activate it.

(Disclaimer: This works for Windows 7 with jpeg images, but I do not know how risky this is, so do this at your own risk.)

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