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If restoring with Time Shift can I opt to remove the full disk encryption?

Is it possible to have a fresh install of Mint from within my current Mint 19 installation.

I don't want to have to install it from USB or might blow my brains out, so am hoping there's a way to do it from within the current installation.

Surface Pro 2, 128gb, i5 intel, 4gb ram, Linux Mint 19 64-bit

If I install Mint XFCE on my Surface Pro 2 will pen and touch work immediately, or will I need to do some tinkering? Also will Mint be able to handle battery life roughly as well as Windows does? As you can see by the stats in my signature I used to use Mint on my Thinkpad, but when I got the Surfac...

For those interested, installation help for the webp patch is here: https://forum.xfce.org/viewtopic.php?id=8951

I'd love to see Webp and BPG (Better Portable Graphics) supported. A patch was created for tumbler: https://bugzilla.xfce.org/show_bug.cgi?id=12528 I've tested this webp patch on Linux Mint 17.3 xfce, the latest Manjaro xfce, Xubuntu 16.04 xfce and it works like a charm. And there's a patch for BPG,...

Thanks! I used the cd-text option in kb3 and installed the extra codecs.

I need to burn an audio cd that will include the song titles, so that when the cd is playing in cd players the proper name of the track will appear. I have Brasero, K3B, and XFBurn, but I'm not able to get any of them to do this.

Thanks!

I replaced the code in my bash file.

I deal with lots of images with Flickr.

What command would I use to just delete the contents of the .thumbnails folder, so that I don't have to restart the computer to create a new .thumbnails folder? There are two folders inside the .thumbnails folder named "large" and "normal". Could I just delete those folders, and ...

Another question. I notice that when the thumbnail cache is deleted (including the .thumbnails folder) I can still see thumbnails before I restart the computer. Shouldn't this be impossible? If there's no .thumbnails folder how am I able to see thumbnails? Edit: Maybe I can see them because they're ...

Great tx!

Okay thanks! I just added the command to crontab -e with nano editor. Another question: I just used a cron generator to change the command so that the command is run every even hour , every day, every week, and every month. The generator gave me this command: 0 */2 * * * /home/myhomefolder/rmthumbs....

Thanks! Do I place the code at the bottom of the crontab file, like so: # /etc/crontab: system-wide crontab # Unlike any other crontab you don't have to run the `crontab' # command to install the new version when you edit this file # and files in /etc/cron.d. These files also have username fields, #...

Thanks for the reply!

How would I modify that so that it deletes that cache once a week?

And does any code need to be placed inside the rmthumbs.sh bash script?

Linux Mint stores a thumbnail of every image I've ever looked at in the .thumbnails folder in my home folder. Every month or so I have to manually delete the thumbnails. There doesn't seem to be a way to do this automatically. I read that on Ubuntu the thumbnail cache is deleted automatically after ...

I'm pretty happy with Linux Mint. I have two problems, but I think they are Linux problems, and not necessarily unique to Mint. I've come across two bugs (if that's what they are) that I haven't been able to resolve. I don't think they're unique to Mint though. One involves jbd2 process hogging 99% ...

I learned of another solution for moving files versus copying them: use the right-click mouse button to drag-and-drop instead of the left-click button. The files will be moved automatically. A little popup window will appear asking you to confirm if you want to move the file.

Okay thanks, altair4. Even though I've received a solution I think I'll leave the thread open in case others know of alternative solutions.

Actually that does work, altair4. You right click the thing you want to move. While keeping the right click button pressed, you drag the clicked item over the folder. Then press down the shift key and let go of the right click button and the shift key at roughly the same time. And voila! It's better...

altair4 wrote:If you press the "Shift" key when you drag and drop it moves instead of copying.

Thanks for the tip, but I just tried that and it didn't work. It still copies.