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Finally, Solved Epiphany not displaying

Saturday, October 17, 2026

Epiphany browser on Linux has long given me trouble in refusing to launch or produce useful error messages for why it would not launch. Today, I finally got it working. The trick is to use WEBKIT_DISABLE_SANDBOX_THIS_IS_DANGEROUS=1 WEBKIT_DISABLE_DMABUF_RENDERER=1 epiphany to launch it. Edit /usr/share/applications/org.gnome.Epiphany.desktop so that the three lines with an exec command include the environment [...]

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Debian 12 PATH and X11

Saturday, May 18, 2024

A few quirks with Debain 12 include that path not being set in similar fashion to Fedora, Ubuntu, and other distributions.  One must regularly set export PATH=$PATH:/usr/sbin In Gnome, applications will open on the server instead of the client when using X11 forwarding.  This will occur even though xcalc opens on the client normally.  The [...]

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