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How to sync bookmarks (favourites) between Google Chrome and Chromium
I'm new to the world of Raspberry 2 and Linux and I have install Chromium on the Raspberry. I did this because I thought it would be a good way to access my Google Chrome Bookmarks (Favourites). However, I'm having problems. When I log into Chromium in order to sync, I get the message: > The sync se...
I'm new to the world of Raspberry 2 and Linux and I have install Chromium on the Raspberry. I did this because I thought it would be a good way to access my Google Chrome Bookmarks (Favourites). However, I'm having problems. When I log into Chromium in order to sync, I get the message:
> The sync server is busy, please try again later.
I've tried a few hours later, next day, etc. I suspect the sync server being busy is not the problem.
Can anyone tell me how to fix this problem and help me sync my bookmarks?
The version of Chromium is:22.0.1229.94. I vaguely understand it's possible to get a later version. I'm new to Linux and would have to be told the explicit steps to do so. The Linux I'm running came with the Raspberry 2 and is some flavor of Debian (I'd report the version number if I knew where to look!).
Finally, I'm not wedded to Chromium. I just want a browser where I can see
my Chrome bookmarks and (ideally) have them synced every time I add a bookmark to Chrome or the browser on Raspberry.
Dave
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Jun 3, 2015, 02:42 PM
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How to convert a directory of jpg files to a pdf with filenames as bookmarks?
I have a directory of jpg files that are scans of my handwritten notes. How do I convert them to a single pdf file that has the filenames as bookmarks? (I eventually also want to add ocr. As mentioned online, we can convert the `.jpg` files to a `.pdf` using `img2pdf .jp --output combined.pdf`, and...
I have a directory of jpg files that are scans of my handwritten notes. How do I convert them to a single pdf file that has the filenames as bookmarks?
(I eventually also want to add ocr. As mentioned online, we can convert the
.jpg files to a .pdf using img2pdf .jp --output combined.pdf, and then we can add ocr using ocrmypdf combined.pdf combined_ocr.pdf. My question is mainly about how to also make sure the pdf file has bookmarks (created from filenames) so that the document is easy to navigate.)
jm jm
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Sep 23, 2021, 04:04 AM
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How do I create and retain bookmarks in qpdfview or qpdf? I was using Ctrl+b and saving my bookmarks but it's not permanent after restarting qpdf
I think the main question is self-sufficient. To add things that I tried: I am on a linux machine so I was trying opensource options, and qpdf was the software I was already using. Tried to seek answer from google but couldn't find my answer from the links google indexed. Tried getting answers from...
I think the main question is self-sufficient. To add things that I tried: I am on a linux machine so I was trying opensource options, and qpdf was the software I was already using. Tried to seek answer from google but couldn't find my answer from the links google indexed. Tried getting answers from chatgpt but it told me to use acrobat instead because qpdf is not as good as acrobat. Being on a linux machine I just installed acrobat using wine, but I still have to use acrobat. I thought of asking the question here while trying the acrobat way, because I would prefer something opensource.
souraj ghosh
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Dec 2, 2023, 01:16 PM
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Emoji support for bookmarks bar on Chrome in Linux
How can I get support for proper rendering of emojis in Chrome bookmarks bar? I'm using Ubuntu Linux or more specifically Xubuntu. This is how it looks today: [![enter image description here][1]][1] I want them to be displayed as country flags, and with colors, like they appear in bookmark manager:...
How can I get support for proper rendering of emojis in Chrome bookmarks bar? I'm using Ubuntu Linux or more specifically Xubuntu.
This is how it looks today:
I want them to be displayed as country flags, and with colors, like they appear in bookmark manager:
I want them to be displayed as country flags, and with colors, like they appear in bookmark manager:
foolo
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Nov 30, 2023, 07:43 AM
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Combine PDFs to new PDF with filenames as bookmarks
I have a directory *foo* containing .pdf files named with pattern *X01, X02, ...*, each two pages long. I want to combine them to a new .pdf, named "_all_YY-MM-DDTHHMMSS.pdf_" that will contain the file names as bookmarks. I used these two commands. While the first one works well, $ gs -dBATCH -dNOP...
I have a directory *foo* containing .pdf files named with pattern *X01, X02, ...*, each two pages long. I want to combine them to a new .pdf, named "_all_YY-MM-DDTHHMMSS.pdf_" that will contain the file names as bookmarks.
I used these two commands. While the first one works well,
$ gs -dBATCH -dNOPAUSE -q -sDEVICE=pdfwrite -dAutoRotatePages=/None -sOutputFile=all_$(date +"%FT%H%M%S").pdf X*.pdf
the second one, based on [this answer](https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/72457/372935) fails.
$ pdftk all_2023-07-12T094706.pdf update_info {ls | grep X*} output out.pdf
grep: X}: No such file or directory
grep: output: No such file or directory
grep: out.pdf: No such file or directory
Done. Input errors, so no output created.
I was trying to
grep the ls for the filenames starting with _X*_, in order to exclude the new combined .pdf names _all..._.
How do I get this to work, preferably by adding update_info to the first command?
I'm aware of solutions like [this](https://unix.stackexchange.com/a/709643/372935) , but they look rather tedious.
jay.sf
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Jul 12, 2023, 08:13 AM
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How to create folder shortcuts in file manager?
![enter image description here][1] [1]: https://i.sstatic.net/Nvjsn.jpg I'm using Thunar. What i want is remove `Networks` since i don't use it, and add `Lello` below `videos`. I know if you right click on any folder like `videos` you can remove the shortcut, I don't know how to add shortcuts.
I'm using Thunar. What i want is remove Networks since i don't use it, and add Lello below videos. I know if you right click on any folder like videos you can remove the shortcut, I don't know how to add shortcuts.
Lynob
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Aug 21, 2013, 08:49 PM
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shell script to combine PDF's in a folder and use pdf file name as bookmark
I have a series of folders with employee names and their documents in pdf format. I want to merge and create a single PDF file with pdf documents indexed as bookmarks in pdf file. I tried using PDFTK to merge the pdf's in folder, however the output does not bookmark.
I have a series of folders with employee names and their documents in pdf format. I want to merge and create a single PDF file with pdf documents indexed as bookmarks in pdf file.
I tried using PDFTK to merge the pdf's in folder, however the output does not bookmark.
Bibush GC
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Jul 13, 2022, 01:15 AM
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Midory browser: where are the bookmarks?
[![enter image description here][1]][1] Midori browser 9.0 has a button to save bookmarks but I cannot find a way to list them after they are saved. I have found [old posts][2] on this problem with solutions related to "menubar" or "sidebar" that are not present on later versions. [1]: https://i.sst...
Midori browser 9.0 has a button to save bookmarks but I cannot find a way to list them after they are saved.
I have found old posts on this problem with solutions related to "menubar" or "sidebar" that are not present on later versions.
cipricus
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Apr 6, 2020, 07:55 AM
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Script for copy bookmarks from one pdf to another
I want to transfer bookmarks from a series of uncompressed `pdf` files to their compressed copies (these copies do not have the original bookmarks). I know how to do this one by one using `pdftk`. First I have to extract the bookmarks: ``pdftk file.pdf dump_data output file.txt`` and then I have to...
I want to transfer bookmarks from a series of uncompressed
pdf files to their compressed copies (these copies do not have the original bookmarks).
I know how to do this one by one using pdftk. First I have to extract the bookmarks:
`pdftk file.pdf dump_data output file.txt`
and then I have to transfer them to the compressed copy:
`pdftk file_mrc.pdf update_info file.txt output file_mrc_updated.pdf`
(my compressed pdf files have that mrc suffix).
I have hundreds of pdf files in this situation, with the correspondent compressed pdf copy, so I want to automatize the procedure.
I found a way to extract the bookmarks from all the files with find, but I don't know how to use this command for dumping the bookmarks on the copies:
`find . -type f ! -name "*mrc*" -exec pdftk '{}' dump_data output {}.txt ';' `
fich
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Apr 17, 2022, 01:28 PM
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Video player with bookmarks
Does there exist a video player for Linux that has bookmarks? That is, I would like to watch a video, close the player and then go back watching from the same moment when I reopen the file, or from some other moment that I bookmarked. I think that VLC has something similar, but am not completely sur...
Does there exist a video player for Linux that has bookmarks? That is, I would like to watch a video, close the player and then go back watching from the same moment when I reopen the file, or from some other moment that I bookmarked. I think that VLC has something similar, but am not completely sure as it didn't also quite work for me. There were also no bookmarks as such.
sequence
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Jan 23, 2022, 01:32 AM
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My bookmarks can't be accessed after rebooting until I manually go through each directory
I just installed Ubuntu 20.04 and I bookmarked my second partition (I named it D) in the file manager so it can be easily accessible. Unfortunately, every time I reboot the computer, it seems that the bookmarked link crashes. I fix it by opening the specific directory by going in "+Other Locations"...
I just installed Ubuntu 20.04 and I bookmarked my second partition (I named it D) in the file manager so it can be easily accessible. Unfortunately, every time I reboot the computer, it seems that the bookmarked link crashes. I fix it by opening the specific directory by going in "+Other Locations" and clicking on it. Also I had a shortcut for a cloned repository from github, which I couldn't access too after rebooting. Is there anyway I can fix that so I don't need to do this every time I turn on my PC.
Mihail Bozhilov
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Jul 7, 2021, 10:54 PM
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Why are Chrome/Brave Browser Bookmark folders grey in Linux distros? Instead of yellow
Bookmark folders in Brave in Ubuntu mate are grey instead of yellow like they are in Windows. My bookmark folders are grey also in Google Chrome and when running in Manjaro-KDE. I think this has something to do with a switch in chromium browsers a few years ago to a "Materials Design". Also has been...
Bookmark folders in Brave in Ubuntu mate are grey instead of yellow like they are in Windows. My bookmark folders are grey also in Google Chrome and when running in Manjaro-KDE.
I think this has something to do with a switch in chromium browsers a few years ago to a "Materials Design". Also has been [discussed here](https://ubuntu-mate.community/t/chromium-bookmark-folder-icons/3058) . This [reddit post](https://www.reddit.com/r/techsupport/comments/4xgyqz/my_google_chrome_bookmark_folders_have_changed/) talks about the same problem but the suggested fix no longer works.
Is it possible to style the bookmark folders back to yellow like you can with a Firefox userchrome.css? Anyone know why they "look right" (i.e: yellow) in Windows 10 but grey in Linux OS?
Cheers,
Flex
FlexMcMurphy
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May 1, 2021, 11:37 PM
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Search in zathura bookmarks
Is it possible to search in bookmarks and "subookmarks" created from table of contents? I need to read 1200 pages MCU datasheet and fast orientation in bookmarks is necessary. This feature is for me unfortunately dealbreaker. Is there am way how I could implement this feature? Thanks for help
Is it possible to search in bookmarks and "subookmarks" created from table of contents?
I need to read 1200 pages MCU datasheet and fast orientation in bookmarks is necessary. This feature is for me unfortunately dealbreaker.
Is there am way how I could implement this feature?
Thanks for help
EFK
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Apr 30, 2020, 08:12 PM
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How to clear all Evince bookmarks?
Is there any quick way to clear all Evince bookmarks? The interface only allows selecting and removing one at a time. Manually editing `~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home` to remove the bookmarks lead to resetting everything, not just the bookmarks. This is for the case in which there are a lot of bo...
Is there any quick way to clear all Evince bookmarks? The interface only allows selecting and removing one at a time. Manually editing
~/.local/share/gvfs-metadata/home to remove the bookmarks lead to resetting everything, not just the bookmarks.
This is for the case in which there are a lot of bookmarks so clearing manually would take a long time.
Răzvan Flavius Panda
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Apr 6, 2018, 03:44 AM
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How to display bookmarks in the initial view when opening a PDF file?
I'm looking for a way to modify an existing pdf file so that the bookmarks panel opens automatically (on the right hand side) when I open the pdf file in acrobat reader or another reader. In https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17333412/set-pdf-document-properties-initial-view you can see how this wo...
I'm looking for a way to modify an existing pdf file so that the bookmarks panel opens automatically (on the right hand side) when I open the pdf file in acrobat reader or another reader.
In https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17333412/set-pdf-document-properties-initial-view you can see how this would be done in Acrobat.
However, I do not have, or really want Acrobat, and would like a way to do this from the unix command line.
I've looked at pdftk and qpdf but can't see how these tools can help me for the moment.
Any ideas ?
Best regards /Colm
carbontracking
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Oct 18, 2017, 08:38 AM
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what media browser/player supports bookmarks in a playlist that loops
Sometimes I decide "I want to watch the next video in this playlist". Kodi/xbmc has a check mark that indicates "you have already watched this video" and another icon that indicates "You started watching, but quit part way through" (this feature is cool), but once I reach the end, all the videos hav...
Sometimes I decide "I want to watch the next video in this playlist". Kodi/xbmc has a check mark that indicates "you have already watched this video" and another icon that indicates "You started watching, but quit part way through" (this feature is cool), but once I reach the end, all the videos have check marks. If I want to watch another cycle, how do I know where I left off?
I am looking for a media player that does not just bookmark an individual video; It can also bookmark which video in a series is "next". This functionality is already built in to streaming media services like Funimation or Crunchyroll, but I have yet to find something similar to kodi that supports this feature.
Bonus points if it supports a DVD jukebox, although I have yet to find a file format capable of representing a single episode from my Samurai Jack DVDs (title 7 chapter 1-1 is "VIII - Jack vs. Mad Jack").
Mutant Bob
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Jan 12, 2017, 05:44 PM
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How do I deploy Firefox Bookmarks for all users in the network?
I have a bash-script for installing Firefox which is downloaded and executed from every client workstation in the network. The script is on the server and all workstations are running Ubuntu. Now I want all workstations to have some default predefined bookmarks like company website etc. So how can I...
I have a bash-script for installing Firefox which is downloaded and executed from every client workstation in the network. The script is on the server and all workstations are running Ubuntu. Now I want all workstations to have some default predefined bookmarks like company website etc.
So how can I deploy Firefox in that way?
user10902
Sep 21, 2011, 09:23 AM
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Recover Firefox bookmarks after Linux Mint 16 reinstallation
I had Linux Mint 16 KDE installed alongside Xubuntu 13.10. I messed up partitions and had to reinstall Mint and both the OSs were booting fine after reinstallation. Now as expected all of my Firefox bookmarks were erased. Is there any way to recover those Firefox bookmarks?
I had Linux Mint 16 KDE installed alongside Xubuntu 13.10. I messed up partitions and had to reinstall Mint and both the OSs were booting fine after reinstallation. Now as expected all of my Firefox bookmarks were erased. Is there any way to recover those Firefox bookmarks?
user247696
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May 13, 2014, 05:45 AM
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Is there a way to convert IE favourites to Firefox's bookmark.htm format?
After switching from Windows to Linux, I am left with a favourite directory containing subfolders and `.url` files, each file containing a few lines of text that look like this: [DEFAULT] BASEURL=http://www.example.com/faq.html [InternetShortcut] URL=http://www.example.com/faq.html Modified=70E5E788...
After switching from Windows to Linux, I am left with a favourite directory containing subfolders and
.url files, each file containing a few lines of text that look like this:
[DEFAULT]
BASEURL=http://www.example.com/faq.html
[InternetShortcut]
URL=http://www.example.com/faq.html
Modified=70E5E788C3B9C9010A
Since I do not have internet explorer installed on my Linux system, it is not possible for me to import the bookmarks directly to my current Firefox browser.
I was wondering if there is a quick way to extract the URL from all the .url files, together with the filenames to generate a .htm file which I can import to any modern browser.
Question Overflow
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Apr 16, 2013, 03:28 PM
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Is is possible to automatically sync Firefox bookmark updates with an HTML file?
I bookmark a lot of pages everyday and I export them as well into an HTML file. The thing is whenever is bookmark a page **can it automatically get updated or synced with the HTML file**? I use Ubuntu 13.10 and Firefox 30.
I bookmark a lot of pages everyday and I export them as well into an HTML file. The thing is whenever is bookmark a page **can it automatically get updated or synced with the HTML file**?
I use Ubuntu 13.10 and Firefox 30.
Corleone
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Jul 9, 2014, 08:51 AM
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