Switching Android Emulator to the Old Location UI on GNU/Linux
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Restore the Android Emulator’s old Location UI on GNU/Linux to work around blank maps and freezes by disabling LocationUiV2.
Gnu/Linux
OpenWRT and PPTP VPN
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Troubleshoot PPTP VPN connections on OpenWrt by installing NAT helper modules and configuring an nftables connection tracking helper.
Restore Xfce4 to default settings
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Restore Xfce4’s default desktop settings for the current user with a Bash script that removes configuration files, caches, and saved sessions.
Disable speech-dispatcher on Debian 12
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Prevent speech-dispatcher from starting on demand on Debian 12 with DisableAutoSpawn to address high PulseAudio CPU usage.
Managing SSL for Jenkins with Sectigo Certificates
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Configure HTTPS for Jenkins with Sectigo certificates by creating PKCS#12 and JKS keystores using OpenSSL and keytool.
Copying Cyrillic URLs in Google Chrome and Firefox
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Why Cyrillic URLs become percent-encoded when copied from Chrome and Firefox, with workarounds for preserving readable links.
Gentoo: No image size information in Dolphin
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Restore image dimensions and metadata in Dolphin on Gentoo by enabling the semantic-desktop USE flag and rebuilding the file manager.
Hyper-V: Change the screen resolution in a CentOS or RHEL virtual machine
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Change the screen resolution of a CentOS or RHEL virtual machine in Hyper-V using grubby to configure the hyperv_fb framebuffer driver.
Console screen resolution (framebuffer) with NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu, Debian, or Linux Mint
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Set the framebuffer console resolution with proprietary NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu, Debian, or Linux Mint using GRUB 2 graphics settings.