Tag: linux

Making JetBrain’s IDEs less sluggish

WebStorm works on my Chromebook in Crostini. I’m happy it works. It’s a bit sluggish, but I attributed this to the CPU (m3), the many pixels on the screen (2400×1600) and/or Crostini itself. It’s fine as I won’t run thousands of lines of code here.

On my home Linux desktop (i7-4510U) it’s much better. Not speedy, but ok. Sublime Text is way snappier though.

Turns out you can improve both significantly by changing the Java runtime environment to the one from JetBrain one. Here the steps:

  1. File->Settings->Plugins.
  2. Click marketplace, search for “Choose Runtime”
  3. Install official Choose Runtime addon from JetBrains
  4. Wait for install and click to restart IDE.
  5. Once back in project, press shift twice to open the search window
  6. Search for Runtime. Select “Choose Runtime”
  7. Change to “jbrsdk-8u-232-linux-x64-b1638.6.tar.gz”, which should be the very last one at the bottom of the list.
  8. Click install, restart IDE, enjoy!

Obviously pick the latest version of the jbrsdk-8u-232-linux-x64. Why this is not default, I cannot say. It should be.

Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/Crostini/comments/e67tij/pycharmwebstormjetbrains_ide_fix/

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Citrix Workspace and Linux

Installing the Citrix Workspace (formerly Receiver) on a Linux machine should be simple. After all, installing it on a Chromebook worked just fine (after enabling High DPI since my Chromebook has such a display).

But on Linux all I got was: You have not chosen to trust “Entrust Root Certification Authority – G2”, the issuer of the server’s security certificate.

Well, I was not aware of it and Chrome itself as well as Firefox had no issues with https://validg2.entrust.net/

So what’s throwing that error message?

Seems it’s the Citrix Workspace application itself which uses its own certificate store and it needs some more certificates (see https://support.citrix.com/article/CTX231524):

  1. Get the missing Entrust G2 root certificate from here
  2. Copy it to /opt/Citrix/ICAClient/keystore/cacerts/ (this is where the Debian package installed into)
  3. Rehash the certificates
sudo /opt/Citrix/ICAClient/util/ctx_rehash

Et voilà: it works. See also this entry in the Citrix forum. Different root certificate, but same problem.

Seems the Citrix Workspace app has its own certificate store. Why is beyond me as the system usually has a certificate store already. Why not use that one?

Note: The need for the Entrust certificate seems to be because the point to what I connect to uses a certificate signed by Entrust. Thus not everyone will need this particular root certificate. But whichever you need, it needs to be in /opt/Citrix/ICAClient/keystore/cacerts/