Desktop

Restore Xfce4 to default settings

2025-12-25 ·1 min read

Restore Xfce4’s default desktop settings for the current user with a Bash script that removes configuration files, caches, and saved sessions.

2016-10-26 ·1 min read

Restore image dimensions and metadata in Dolphin on Gentoo by enabling the semantic-desktop USE flag and rebuilding the file manager.

2016-10-12 ·1 min read

Improve NetBeans font rendering on Gentoo Linux by enabling Swing antialiasing and configuring the look and feel in netbeans.conf.

2016-02-05 ·2 min read

Change the screen resolution of a CentOS or RHEL virtual machine in Hyper-V using grubby to configure the hyperv_fb framebuffer driver.

2014-09-25 ·1 min read

Disable overlay scrollbars in Ubuntu 14.04 LTS and switch to normal scrollbars with a single gsettings command.

2011-07-12 ·1 min read

Remove GNOME-related packages from openSUSE with a shell command that combines zypper, rpm, and grep.

2011-06-13 ·1 min read

Fix oversized fonts on the KDM login screen in openSUSE by setting a custom DPI through DISPLAYMANAGER_KDM_LOCALARGS.

2011-06-11 ·2 min read

Configure a monitor and TV with NVIDIA TwinView on openSUSE 11.4 and save the display settings permanently in the X server configuration.