Linux Articles
- Add a Gemini filetype to Gnome You might need to create a gemini.xml file and/or a .desktop file for your favorite Gemini clients. Here's how and where to put them.
- Apache, mod_ssl, and syntax errors in krb5.h Syntax errors in krb5.h usually mean your Linux distro put Kerberos somewhere Apache isn't expecting to find it.
- Fedora 7 Problems With Glint Video Driver Grab the Live CD first and make sure that all your hardware works properly. If not, see if the fix is available before you actually upgrade.
- Firefox Thinks It’s Running an Older Version Than Last Time (But Isn’t!) Look for the compatibility.ini file in your Firefox profile, and delete the LastVersion line.
- Fix for “Among Us” not joining games on Linux Change your server region and change it back. No, it doesn’t make sense to me either. But at least it works.
- Fixing Flash in Fedora Core 5 Flash hard-codes the paths where it looks for fonts, instead of letting the X server tell it where to look.
- Fixing Twhirl Just delete the entire ~/.appdata/Adobe/AIR/ELS/ folder and start from the ground up.
- Installing Valhelsia on Linux MultiMC no longer downloads mods from CurseForge, and CurseForge won't run Minecraft on Linux. But AT Launcher will, and has a workaround for CurseForge's API limits.
- Invisible Grub Boot Menu (Fixed) If your GRUB menu isn't showing up, but your system still boots… check splashimage and make sure it points at a real file
- KeePass Password Managers KeePassXC, its browser extension, and KeePass2Android are a nice, clean set of apps to manage your passwords on your OWN desktop and mobile devices, auto-fill websites and apps, and sync over your own server or cloud provider.
- Linux Ejecting DVD Drawer on Wake (Fixed) It's a recent bug in the Linux kernel. Wait a couple of days and it'll be fixed and Fedora will ship the new one.
- Mac OS X Finder Deleting Files on a Linux Share If you connect to a Samba share from MacOS and it deletes files after telling you it can't copy them, try turning off unix extensions in Samba.
- Nepomuk is Not Running KMail kept tossing errors on launch because an old config was trying to load the wrong Nepomuk backend.
- NVIDIA on Fedora 27: Bad Resolution and Painful Mouse Lag (Fixed) As of 2017, Wayland didn't work with the binary NVIDIA drivers, and the system would lag painfully. If you tell GDM not to use Wayland, it will fall back to the older display system.
- NVIDIA/Nouveau picture extending beyond screen (Solved) After switching video drivers, my display extended past the edges of the screen. It turned out to be a monitor setting hidden by the old driver.
- Remove GPS Tags After Taking a Photo Google Photos won't remove GPS data from an image, but you can easily remove just the location data using a desktop or laptop.
- Repair missing UEFI entry for Fedora Linux Boot to a live image and either manually edit the menu with efibootmgr or use a specialized tool like boot-repair.
- Resolving SELinux audit errors on boot in Fedora Core 4 Rebuild the initrd so it can label the boot filesystem with the new policy.
- Tell (most) Linux Web Browsers to open Gemini links with your favorite client Most Linux web browsers will open unfamiliar URL schemes with XDG, which will look for .desktop files for the applications that can open it.
- Tell Firefox to open Gemini links with your favorite client You'll need to click on a Gemini link to get the config options, and then you can choose what to open it in.
- Windows Losing Drives After Sleep (Solved) It turned out the motherboard had two SATA controllers, one of which worked properly and one which didn't. I just moved the cables over.
- Workaround for Gmail being blocked by “Temporary Error” in Firefox on Fedora In this case it was a Fedora-specific issue, but it could be worked around by holding down shift and hitting reload.