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Editing PDF Files

Things on this page are fragmentary and immature notes/thoughts of the author. Please read with your own judgement!

Type Name Comments
Web Tools DocuSign - Free for occassional use
- No credit card required
- Support checkmarks and signatures
Free PDF Convert - Great for convert PDF files …

Take Screenshot on Linux

ksnip

Ksnip is a Qt-based cross-platform screenshot tool that provides many annotation features for your screenshots. It is one of the best screenshot applications.

Installation Using snap

sudo snap install ksnip

flameshot

Flameshot is a simple cross-platform screenshot software.

Shutter

Shutter is a good screenshot application for Linux (only).

Terminal Multiplexers

zellij

  1. There are 2 mature popular terminal multiplexer apps: screen and tmux. Both of them are very useful if you want to work on multiple tasks over 1 SSH connection. Screen is relative simple to use while tmux is much more powerful and more complicated to use.

  2. Besides enabling users to …

WSL2 Filesystem

Performance Issue

The performance of IO is extremely bad if you access the the Windows filesystem from WSL 2. This is also true if you use Docker in WSL 2 (since Docker on WSL 2 share the same kernel as WSL 2). It is suggested that you stick to WSL …