Backports from a few merge requests

Backports from:

• !11763 (merged)
• !11978 (merged)

Warnings:

• please consider adding a changelog entry in a file ending with .md in Documentation/release/dev.

The warnings do not need to be fixed, but it is recommended to do so.

changed the description

mentioned in issue paraview/paraview#22920 (closed)

requested review from @spiros.tsalikis

@sankhesh @christos.tsolakis mind reviewing? Hopefully the last few backports for ParaView 5.13.3.

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Thanks.

Do: merge

mentioned in commit 09ebe485

merged manually

mentioned in commit cory.quammen/paraview@c73c9158

mentioned in merge request paraview/paraview!7234 (merged)

mentioned in merge request !12020 (merged)

mentioned in commit feef9ccd

mentioned in commit 744fc060

mentioned in commit cory.quammen/paraview@2373c29b