Linux

Switching Android Emulator to the Old Location UI on GNU/Linux

2026-09-01 ·1 min read

Restore the Android Emulator’s old Location UI on GNU/Linux to work around blank maps and freezes by disabling LocationUiV2.

2026-03-22 ·1 min read

Troubleshoot PPTP VPN connections on OpenWrt by installing NAT helper modules and configuring an nftables connection tracking helper.

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.

2025-05-21 ·2 min read

Prevent speech-dispatcher from starting on demand on Debian 12 with DisableAutoSpawn to address high PulseAudio CPU usage.

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.

2015-05-19 ·1 min read

Restore keyboard shortcuts with non-Latin layouts in older Eclipse versions on GNU/Linux by building and using eclipse-hotkeys-fix.

2015-05-18 ·1 min read

Set the framebuffer console resolution with proprietary NVIDIA drivers on Ubuntu, Debian, or Linux Mint using GRUB 2 graphics settings.

2014-09-25 ·1 min read

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