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Questions related to the Mathematica front-end (graphical user interface).

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Changing default window appearance

Since every single time I start Mathematica, my first action is aligning the windows properly (Notebook on the left for $2/3$ of the screen, help on the right for the other $1/3$), I was wondering whe …
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Antialiasing in 3D

If you're running Mathematica in Linux, 3D antialiasing can be a bit tricky. Asking Wolfram support for a workaround, I got the following as an answer: Unfortunately, anti-aliasing is not official …
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How to prevent the welcome screen from showing up after I close my last notebook? (Ubuntu 11...

The screen won't show when you use File | Quit, or you can use the shortcut Ctrl+Q. I actually wrote the Wolfram support about this issue, the response said that that window opening is the desired be …
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Creating custom notation

How does one generate custom symbols? For example, the physicist notation for the rotation is "nabla cross function". In this case however, Mathematica complains that the [esc]del[esc] symbol evaluate …
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How to work around Column cutting off a pixel row from images?

Since I cannot reproduce the error I can only guess. Maybe setting the Spacings option for Column helps? This is what Spacing -> 0 looks like: You can see the gray dividers above the image appearin …
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Text in columns

Well, there's the Column command: x^Range[5] // Column You may also want to have a look at its siblings, Row and Grid: x^Range[5] // Row Table[x^(i j), {i, 5}, {j, 5}] // Grid …
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How to change default notebook background color?

You could create a custom stylesheet that has a different background color and define it to be the default one. To do that, go to Format | Edit Stylesheet, select All in the "Choose a style" combo box …
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ListPlot: Plotting large data fast

Short version Use Interpolation. Long version My fire-and-forget approach to this is interpolating the data first and then plotting it, which is (much to my surprise) orders of magnitudes faster th …
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