Debian buttons for Firefox/Iceweasel
As a Debian administrator, power user or contributor, one often goes to look for information about a package, a bug, a developer or a message from the mailing lists. If you are in this case, you may be interested in the Firefox/Iceweasel extension “Debian buttons”, written by Damyan Ivanov and packaged by myself.
Viewers should stay in foreground
Classified in : Homepage, Debian, Command line, Grumble
Traditionally, when you start a program to view a document, for instance
xpdf resume.pdf, it stays in foreground, and only returns when it
finishes, when you are done with the document. Of course you can still run it in
background if you want.
Nowadays, several programs behave in a different way, for instance Evince. When you first start it, it stays in foreground as usual. However, if you launch it a second time while the first instance it still running, it will reuse this existing instance, asking it to open your document in a new window, and immediately return. Other examples are Firefox and LibreOffice.