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I am running a backup in the terminal. Do I need to change the power settings in Mint for when the computer goes to sleep when its inactive? In other words will it recognize that there is a terminal process and not make the computer go to sleep?

Additional info: My root is 22 GB and timeshift is 54G for 8 snapshots. It was ~27GB but I just deleted some flatpaks that were taking up a lot of space. t it depends on your root partition usage: if you installed tons of software and/or never removed old kernels I suppose it's possible. How can I t...

Screenshots attached. Right now I am running kernel 4.15.0-65. I see in Update Manager that there is a line 4.18, but all of them are reported as being "end of life". Presumably 4.18 is newer than 4.15, so how can this be? I see a line of 5.0 versions, ~ 10. 9 of them say "superseded" and 1 is curre...

As I presumably have not run the update manager frequently enough, I see 2 newer kernels than what I have, Is it okay to update both of them at the same time, or do I update the older one, then reboot, then update the newer one?

Mine is 40 GB according to the file manager (I tried checking with some terminal commands but kept getting "permission denied" messages, maybe I just needed to wait longer). It seems excessive considering that timeshift is not supposed to back up personal files. I have 7 snapshots with rsync. Is thi...

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Same question for pluma files (file type shows "plain text document (text/plain)" when I right-click it), which also bring up this dialog even though the files are not executable. These pluma files have no file extension.

When I double-click on an html file, it brings up the above dialog and displays: "file.html is an executable text file" If I instead right-click on the file and go to "open with", a browser is already selected. So the dialog seems to bypass that. I know under Permissions, I can un-check "allow execu...

That's a pretty old scanner. Any chance your system has both USB2 and USB3 ports and during the move you changed scanner from USB2 to USB3 port on the system? You might want to read this thread where I recently ran some tests. https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=51&t=285990&p=1583206&hilit...

I assumed that packages installed from the terminal come from a repository that is examined for malicious software, but found out that this is not the case. I have not really checked that anything I have installed is safe, which would also include commands I ran in the terminal based on websites to ...

I have been installing python modules using pip3 in the terminal. Is there a way to see the last time I used one, so that I can uninstall the ones I do not use/no longer need?

I have been unable to print PDFs at all in linux mint 17.3. Tried xreader and evince. But just installed masterPDF and am able to print them.

Is there a linux clipboard manager that does this? Eg, I want to copy many items in sequence, and then using the same keyboard command, it would paste them one after the other. Pastebot for Mac can do this. I tried Parcellite but I don't think it has this feature.

What is the default value so I can change it back in case I do not like it?

Is it possible a mod could move this to a more appropriate forum if indicated? I'm thinking it's probably not a MATE issue but more something to do with the underlying OS, graphics card, or something else. Also the laptop is getting unusable because it jumps to the brightest setting all the time.

It is happening all the time now for no discernible reason, even when I am viewing a screen and not using the mouse. Here is the output of inxi -Fxz System: Host: Latitude-E5450 Kernel: 4.15.0-47-generic x86_64 bits: 64 gcc: 7.3.0 Desktop: MATE 1.20.1 (Gtk 3.22.30-1ubuntu2) Distro: Linux Mint 19 Tar...

Also discovered my laptop battery is internal so will probably just leave it in.

All PCs, regardless of operating system benefit from being rebooted. Full stop. I'll suspend Mint boxes which are in daily use, but switch them off otherwise. I also reboot after every major system update (e.g. point releases or Level 5 kernel releases) or any large or complicated software installa...

Following pdc_2's instructions above, now with the latest driver I believe, works for me.

Has not occurred since I ran a bunch of updates. Am considered it solved.