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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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Apostrophe on Linux and the Preview

Thursday, July 23, 2026

Apostrophe on Linux fails to show the preview in some newer operating systems. This occurs because the WebKit backend switched to using hardware acceleration and this does not work for many users. A fix to the launching command works to bring the preview back to Apostrophe, but the same fix will not work for Epiphany. [...]

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