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I was looking through the startup applications and noticed that there are a bunch that appear to be duplicates ... sort of. I've attached a screenshot. It seems to me that both Cinnamon settings and GNOME settings are doing the same thing. Clipboard, color, housekeeping, for instance. Is this correc...

MI: Caret in this context refers to the cursor. So, the blinky thing :D I would leave this open so that anyone else who sees who might have a suggestion will post it. Otherwise, they may ignore it and you'll lose some potentially good advice. I hope you won't find this insulting, but I wonder if loo...

Two things popped into my mind as possible helpers for you. One is speech-to-text for writing. Simply put, whatever you say is converted to text. I looked into this some time ago, but didn't really find anything that worked all that well. There may have come improvements or new software in the meant...

Figured it out. Thought that I had tried everything, then something sort of rung a bell somewhere in the dim recesses of my brain. Went to Settings->Windows->Behavior and turned OFF "Attach dialog windows to the parent window" Solved it for everything. All is well. I'll leave this here in case anyon...

This is a little hard to describe so please bear with me. Using LM 19.1 Cinnamon, dual monitors, (inxi to follow) I have a bottom panel on my left (main) monitor (the one set to 1920x1080), set to auto-hide. If I open any application in a window (not maximized) and then double-click on the top or bo...

I'm running a GTX 960 through HDMI with a second monitor through DVI that's having the problem. I don't have another system that I can try it on, but I can try it in live mode, or unplug monitors to test. Each time I boot I just restart Cinnamon and it's perfectly fine - none of the other settings s...

**Update From Below** Turning all of that off introduced screen tearing on my system. Long story short, what I found is that turning both Allow Flipping in Nvidia-settings and Enable VBlank in General Settings, then right-clicking the task bar, hitting Troubleshooting, then Restart Cinnamon makes it...

I HAVE NOT TRIED THIS since I timeshifted back to 19, but this was in the comments in the announcement page: For anyone getting a bunch of window flickering after the upgrade who is using the proprietary NVIDIA driver, try turning “allow flipping” off in the openGL settings in the NVIDIA settings pa...

I don't have a solution for you but I have the same problem I think. On mine anything that I touch flickers and blinks repeatedly - including the text that I'm now trying to type. If i right-click on the desktop then highlight anything it blinks repeatedly. Trying to watch video is hideous. System: ...

Thanks everyone for your suggestions. I tried the following: Upgraded graphics drivers Went back to kernel 4.15.20 Went up to Kernel 4.17.11 (ukuu is very handy, trytip, thanks for that!) Turned off and on various settings in Nvidia settings and in Cinnamon. None of these things helped. I sort of ga...

Try to update your nVidia Drivers Thank you for the suggestion. I ran this, they upgraded to 396.45, but, unfortunately, no change. Trytip: I did not upgrade the kernel; think I'll stay with what LM suggests for now. Thank you, though. For fun I ran 'killall cinnamon' in the terminal and the hitch ...

Since upgrading to LM19 Cinnamon, I'm experiencing a graphical hitch roughly every three seconds. It only lasts for a fraction of a second, but it's driving me nuts. It's most noticeable when watching video, but it's everywhere. While moving windows, typing, opening menus ... if the screens are on, ...

Same for me. Tried a plethora of things to try to fix it all to no avail.

On the bright side, that timeshift thing is spectacular. I almost skipped it.

Base is supposed to run Access files right? Certainly not in my experience. I've done dozens upon dozens of Access databases and have never just "opened" one in Base as you would a Word doc in Writer or an Excel spreadsheet in Calc. You can bring in the data, and then reconstruct the database in Ba...

Is there a shortcut to it in your main menu (the Start menu? What do we call it in Mint?) If so, Right-click on it and add it to your desktop.
If not, find the .exe in Nemo, Right-Click, chose "Make Link", then drag that new file to your desktop.

I use an old Logitech Trackman Marble FX and had no middle button functionality. I installed gpointing-device-settings and could set it to scroll when holding the middle button since I have no mouse wheel. I wonder if Mint even sees your mouse's middle button. In the terminal, type: xev | grep butto...

Now that's odd. Both devices are running the same Mint, all updates applied (aside from going to Mint 18.2)? I ran into this some time ago, so I don't think that it's a new setting. I am running LO 5.4.0.3 as well, but I had this happen before now: https://forums.linuxmint.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=2...

I did this once, too, and it drove me nuts. In any LibreOffice application, hit Tools > Options... In the Options dialogue, under LibreOffice on the left, choose General. On the right, uncheck (or check, depending on your preference) the "Use LibreOffice dialogs" under Open/Save Dialogs. That should...

I was trying to update some of the applets on Cinnamon and each of them failed. I also tried to install new applets that I had never installed before and got the same error message: An error occurred during installation or updating. You may wish to report this incident to the developer of cpufreq@mt...

Since upgrading to 18.2 Cinnamon, I've noticed in Top and Conky that the process csd-background's memory usage grows throughout the day. It starts out very low, but then climbs to 80-90 megs as time goes on. I realize that that's a pretty small amount - particularly considering i have 16 gigs instal...