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greywolf

Try having a look through this page:

https://itpeernetwork.intel.com/finding ... -not-scsi/

Try the commands therein; may give you a clue what to look for.

greywolf.

greywolf

For just wanting to "have a look" this is an excellent tutorial to follow: http://tuxtweaks.com/2014/03/create-linux-mint-persistent-live-usb/ The version is getting a bit dated but the process is relevant still. Give it a try, nothing to lose - so long as you aim everything at the right d...

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kc1di wrote: ⤴Wed Jun 06, 2018 5:51 am .....stuff snipped. gksudo no longer works either.

But so far other than that it's fast and looks good.

Try a web search for "linux gksu deprecated". This is now quite old info. It is GONE.

Learn about "pkexec" for the new method of super user privileges.

greywolf.

greywolf

I took 18.04 Budgie and 18.04 Mate for a spin on a 'real' partition each on the test machine (UEFI only, 16Gb ram, fast SSD, AMD8 Quad core, Radeon 8510). I have to say I was seriously impressed. Not with the memory footprint so much; Budgie is outrageous IMHO, but the overall improvements in applic...

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Thanks @xenopeek, some interesting reading there. It must be more to do with the version of Grub, as some distros using Grub detect the Xfs partition whereas Mint's does not. I might check the version number of grub on each setup when I have a moment? Not that it is a problem as I have standardised ...

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I was just doing a bit of tidying up by removing a couple of old kernels in my Mint 18.3 Xfce system and noticed something I had not seen before about the XFS filesystem. Just wanting to confirm it. This is a multi-boot machine, I use it to support over 200 users and I have about 5 or 6 different di...

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I have 5 hard drives and 4 os's (mint, debian, ubuntu, windows 7). Does every distro need grub installed to work properly? No. One grub, grub4dos or LILO is enough. With EFI-computers you can use rEFInd also. If using UEFI machine to multiboot, no distro actually needs Grub installed. As above, use...

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I have experienced the same problem on my support machines; can be a dozen distros installed. It becomes a real issue when any other distro has "RESUME" parameter set in its boot process (usually on kernel line). The system cannot find the UUID for the swap entry in the relevant grub entry...

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Thanks for the guidance - I found an old bash scriping guide I have - and it confirmed the re-direct stuff to be superfluous, as a re-direct of a comparison is not appropriate. Removed the offending piece and it works as expected.

greywolf.

greywolf

I am sure there is a very simple explanantion to this problem that is just eluding my weary mind at present? This line in a bash script is not parsing - I think I may have the right bracket in the wrong place? The error message is "couldn't parse this test expression". I would appreciate i...

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Sgthawker wrote:I've had the beta running flawlessly since it's release. Updated over the weekend got me to the full release. Loving it!

Likewise, congats all developers.
greywolf.

greywolf

EDIT Not that I want to try Emerald but went to your link and it seems to leave things in the air at the last word - "click" what? Sorry about that; I didn't specifically go and check the site before posting, my bad! As I said, I don't find I need Compiz/Emerald anymore (agree about 'clun...

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The "traditional" window manager I have always used for Compiz is "Emerald Theme Manager". I am quite surprised Mint does not include it in the repos? Anyway, you can compile it yourself and install from scratch. The process outlined on this site works well: http://chriseiffel.co...

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- In my hardware and any laptops/notebooks, Linux Mint is like Bugatti Veyron W16 on energy consuption. For resolve this, the aplication TLP will be installed for default. Whithout TLP, my battery have a 3 hour lifetime (and i have a SSD!). With TLP, i have 10 hours. It's a big difference! TLP is i...

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JeremyB wrote:Try using
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sudo blkid
To find the swap partition

Can I suggest

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sudo lsblk -f

is a nicer presentation of the initial information you require?

greywolf.

greywolf

If you want to use time stamped incremental backups that utilize 'rsync' as the tool; I suggest you try 'rsnapshot'. It is an excellent little backup program: "Description-en: local and remote filesystem snapshot utility rsnapshot is an rsync-based filesystem snapshot utility. It can take incre...

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I have not used Windows for many years now so I don't know off hand whether "rsync" itself works under it or not. Having said that, once you have set up a profile under "Grsync" you can go to its menu under File --> Rsync Command Line and you will get a little popup showing the u...

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This is an empathy post rather than a solution I'm afraid. I have a similar problem between internal speaker default and headphones/external speakers connected thru headphone jack. Always reverts to speakers. If I recall correctly (not in Mint at present), the standard Cinnamon audio mixer does not ...

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My tired old eyes can't handle "scratchy" thin fonts too well, so, I use 'Slight', 'RGB' options + Antialiasing. However, I use my own downloaded fonts: 'Quantico' = variable, 'Envy Code R' = fixed.

Makes quite a big difference on all laptops & LCD monitors.

greywolf.

greywolf

Don't forget to reboot after a kernel update, so the new one gets loaded.

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