Helpful tips and tricks for applications

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Helpful tips and tricks for applications

Boinc

• Allow Remote Access
  • Modify usr/lib/systemd/system/boinc-client.service: ExecStart=/usr/bin/boinc --allow_remote_gui_rpc

Browsers

Chromium

• Kerberos/SSO
  • /etc/chromium/policies/managed/[policy filename].json

{
    "AuthServerWhitelist": "*.mycompany.com",
    "AuthNegotiateDelegateWhitelist": "*.mycompany.com"
}

Chrome

• Kerberos/SSO
  • /etc/opt/chrome/policies/managed/[policy filename.json]

{
    "AuthServerWhitelist": "*.mycompany.com",
    "AuthNegotiateDelegateWhitelist": "*.mycompany.com"
}

• Tab Groups
  • Preserve Tab Groups
    • Settings -> On Startup -> Continue where you left off

Firefox

• To open bookmarks in a new tab:

1. about:config
2. browser.tabs.loadBookmarksInTabs
3. Set to true

• To open tabs on far right:

1. about:config
2. browser.tabs.insertRelatedAfterCurrent
3. Set to false

Vivaldi

• Kerberos/SSO
  • /etc/chromium/policies/managed/[policy filename].json

{
    "AuthServerWhitelist": "*.mycompany.com",
    "AuthNegotiateDelegateWhitelist": "*.mycompany.com"
}

Plugins

Video DownloadHelper

Video DownloadHelper is a great plugin for both Firefox and Chrome to download videos from youtube or many streaming services. To install the companion app, download here. Download the companion app and install as either a user or system-wide:

• ./net.downloadhelper.coapp-linux-64 install --user
• sudo ./net.downloadhelper.coapp-linux-64 install --system

Media

Plex

• Randomly shutting down: Disable Refresh metadata periodically in Scheduled Tasks.
• Get Logs: Settings > Manage > Troubleshooting in Plex Web App. ClickDownload Logs.
• See what was played
  • Download logs
  • Unzip
  • grep 'Play progress' Plex\ Media\ Server*

FreeMind

IDE

Netbeans

• Show git branch: View -> Show Versioning Labels

IntelliJ