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Hello,

Desktop environment: Cinnamon 2.2
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Hello, Does anyone knows a way to remove/hide the title bar in Firefox (at least when it's in full screen) ? I tried a few extentions, most of the not working... only "Hide Caption Titlebar Plus" works more or less but the result doesn't look very nice (for example it doesn't handle the &q...

I use the nvidia 331.38 drivers.
I will try with the intel drivers.

Sorry I can't help with that... my technical skills are too limited.
You may want to suggest improvement of cinnamon-settings for not requiring root privilege anymore there -> https://github.com/linuxmint/Cinnamon

Hello, I'm running linux mint 17 cinnamon edition 64-bit on a laptop (no other os installed) with a core i5-430M cpu, a nvidia gt 325M gpu, 6gb ram and 250gb ssd and since a couple of days, I experienced quite frequent freeze (3 times in less than 2 hours just now). The system is not completely cras...

Thanks for the update !

Don't make anything in /var a tmpfs. As /var is specified to survive reboots, programs may depend on /var being on persistent storage--if you tamper with that you may impact performance in a bad way (as files need to be recreated each boot) or limit functionality (no history). Not really worth it I...

You're welcome! :D root account is required to perform some administrator tasks therefores it cannot be disabled. Linix Mint offers you some security though : you cannot directly log in as root. Actually normally you always work with your normal account and when a task requires evevated privileges, ...

As mr_raider said, modern SSDs run fine with the default installation so if you're just starting with linux, the best is probably to use the system as it is. If you really want to tweak your system, my advise are : don't go too far: some tweaks you'll find on the net are for older SSD and some other...

I don't know for LMDE but for the main edition, during the installation, the same password is set for your main user AND for root. You changed your password but not the root password -> I guess this is why you now have some some apps - the ones that requires root privileges - that still prompt for y...

Thanks a lot altair4 !!

Hello, First time I connected to my NAS, nemo of course asked for the credentials and I ticked the box to remember the password. Now I would like to connect using a different user, but I cannot find how because it automatically connects to the samba share and I don't find where I could tell it to no...

Thanks!
I missed that post. I'm glad it's fixed already!

Hello,

I noticed that when I install or remove an application from the GUI, I always get this error (but the (un)installation works fine) : Anyone knows how to fix it ?

Thanks!

As simple as that... I didn't saw the edit mode, duh!!!

Thanks a lot !

I found out thanks the the Ubuntu documentation It seems that the administrator user created during the installation of Mint has user-specific locale variables set, so changing the system locale entries in /etc/default/locale is overriden for this user. I did edit the file $HOME/.pam_environment to ...

Hello, I checked the file /etc/default/local LANG="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_TIME="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_NAME="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="fr_FR.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="fr_F...

Hi,

Actually I noticed problem since I upgraded to Mint 17 but it was all my fault : during the upgrade, I did encrypt the home folders so of course I cannot use the psd anymore.
Duh, stupid me !