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Firefox in Wayland

Sat, 18 Nov 2023 00:00:00 +0000

Don’t be like me and forget to run Firefox in Wayland mode if you’re using Plasma.

Set the following environment variable in your preferred way:

MOZ_ENABLE_WAYLAND=1

Check for active Wayland support in the about:support Firefox page:
Window Protocol should show you wayland instead of xwayland

You’re welcome, future me.

Building a Flatpak

Mon, 12 Dec 2022 00:00:00 +0000

What is it about? #

I’ve been a proponent of Flatpaks since Fedora, because they actually run stress-free on every distribution without having to add additional package sources. Also, if you rely on a stable system like Debian, but still want to run more up-to-date applications than the package sources offer, Flatpak is excellent.

Since Fedora Silverblue or openSUSE MicroOS, Immutable Distributions are getting more interesting, because they offer some advantages and in my opinion are the right way to make GNU/Linux more attractive on the desktop. Flatpak is ideal as a software center for typical desktop applications without losing the distribution diversity.

Fedora - first steps

Tue, 05 Jul 2022 00:00:00 +0000

I recently gave Fedora with GNOME and Wayland a try. As every other distribution, there are some tweaks to be done after an fresh installation. These are my first steps and settings, which should also work for future distribution releases.

Update installed packages

I prefer the command line over the software center (which also works flawless).

sudo dnf update

Depending on the updates, a reboot could be needed.

Enable nonfree repositorys

sudo dnf install https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/free/fedora/rpmfusion-free-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm https://mirrors.rpmfusion.org/nonfree/fedora/rpmfusion-nonfree-release-$(rpm -E %fedora).noarch.rpm
sudo dnf upgrade --refresh
sudo dnf groupupdate core

Install nonfree plugins for media playback

sudo dnf install gstreamer1-plugins-{bad-\*,good-\*,base} gstreamer1-plugin-openh264 gstreamer1-libav --exclude=gstreamer1-plugins-bad-free-devel -y
sudo dnf install lame\* --exclude=lame-devel
sudo dnf group upgrade --with-optional Multimedia

GNOME tweaks

I really liked the usability of Ubuntu in the past, thanks to gnome-tweaks and the GNOME extension dash-to-dock I can add the same usability feeling also in Fedora:

Arch Linux - play Diablo 2 Resurrected

Fri, 01 Oct 2021 00:00:00 +0000

How to play Diablo 2 Resurrected on Arch Linux and Lutris. My system has the following specifications:

Arch Linux Linux 5.14.8-arch1-1
Nvidia GeForce GTX 1070
Ryzen 5 2600
2 x 8GB DDR4 @ 3200 MHz

I assume that Arch Linux and the nvidia + nvidia-dkms Drivers are installed and running with a window manager or desktop environment like GNOME.

First of all, we need to enable the multilib Repository:

nano /etc/pacman.conf

[multilib]
Include = /etc/pacman.d/mirrorlist

payman -Syu

For an hassle-free setup we use Lutris and Wine to install the Battle.net Launcher.

nginx Reverse Proxy & Ubuntu 20.04 LTS

Sun, 17 May 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Test scenario #

a single root or virtual server with a public IP address
nginx is installed and upstreamed on this server as a reverse proxy
the proxy manages all (sub)domains, for example sub.testdomain.com
if a visitor calls sub.testdomain.com, the proxy forwards the request on the corresponding server or service and port
this server may, for example, host multiple Docker instances (i.e. multiple web servers) on different ports
the Docker instances could also run on the reverse proxy itself

Here, we want HTTP requests to be automatically redirected to HTTPS (via the respective (sub)domain). In this example, nginx runs on a separate host and redirects requests to an IP address (i.e. separate server) from the internal network.

Hello world!

Tue, 28 Apr 2020 00:00:00 +0000

Just get started.

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Mon, 01 Jan 0001 00:00:00 +0000

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