LibreOffice Customize Keyboard does work, but...

bgstack15 — Mon, 27 Jan 2025 13:56:00 GMT

When you go to customize keyboard shortcuts so that there's some keystroke for increasing and decreasing font size, you will discover something. And upon taking screenshots for writing this post, everything makes sense now!

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You will find the Menu Tools... -> Customize... -> dialog tab Menus and learn the name of the operation that should happen.

Windows: Map network drives from csv

bgstack15 — Tue, 15 Oct 2019 13:22:09 GMT

Even back in my olden days of using a non-free operating system, I was automating my tasks. The non-persistent sessions at the computer science lab required that I script my tasks. This is what I came up with for mapping network drives. You can set a csv file with the following contents:

driveletter,sharename,username,password,vollabel
SERVER,192.168.1.2
w,vol1\ben,,,W_svol1_ben
x,vol1,,,X_svol1
y,vol2,,,Y_svol2
z,vol5,,,Z_svol5
SERVER,hulk
s,hulk_ben,,,S_hulk_ben
t,smash,,,T_smash
SERVER,dax
u,dax_ben,,,U_dax_ben
v,science,,,V_science

So it's not a real csv file; it's got headers delineated by "SERVER" and a server name. The script will operate on the following lines, until the next "SERVER" line. It will mount the drive letter, from the following CIFS share, using a username and password or prompting if blank, and a pretty name. It will only mount those entries, if the SERVER actually is reachable. So it fails safely if you are on a different network than the requested server at the time. The script is available on my gitlab. And that example csv is also there. I eventually scrapped this script when I deployed an Active Directory domain and I used group policy to define a number of mounts to define.

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Windows: Map network drives from csv