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On most Lenovo Desktop machines there is one particular USB port that is specifically meant for using a Wireless Mouse and Keyboard combination. You can see if you have one because if you look at the rear ports, one has a weird little symbol. If you use your imagination - you will work out that symb...

Spamegg's Multi-Panel approach is one way to sort out the panel thing. If you ever see my screen shots you will see a Top Panel, one for Left and Right, and a Cairo-Dock at the bottom, because the one thing my Mint 21.3 KDE mashup cannot do is Activities. It can create them, but without being aware ...

Without knowing 'anything' about your system, a couple fo obvious things come to mind. 1) Because a very large HDD uses a lot of power, it might draw more current that the laptop (or most desktop) computers can pass out of their USB ports. 2) Because a very large SSD uses a lot of power, it might dr...

The problem is following, I'd like to use workspaces but with each workspace launching different applications. Plank (or how Mint's dock is called - with your apps at the bottom screen) can't be customized to show different applications for each workspace - I haven't seen a way to have different ap...

I should know this because I have been installing Linux distros over and over on several devices for the last two months - but a number of them have completely changed their install programs, and the options are different. However One of the distros I installed was Mint Cinnamon 6 because I was cons...

I've been running two Surface Pro 3 Tablets (one 4/64GB with Win 10 - the other 8/256GB with Win 11 Pro) for some months now (I've posted about it in this forum). I'm fairly sure on both the Surface 3 tablets, this was the guide (It was stolen from a web post somewhere at the time: Change boot-order...

I remember when Linux Mint brought out their KDE (DE) distro's, a few years back, they were great, so what happened to that politically I dunno. -maybe Kubuntu just needed Mint's help for awhile...? I seem to remember the very first Mint I had was running KDE. I can;t remember, but I think the othe...

Hear Hear. 8) Thanks for this post @rossdv8. Same here regarding compiz. The benefits of compiz outweigh the few niggles. I use compiz specifically for window placement and rules features. Not into special effects. As far as bugs--yes there are a few in Mint. The Update manager icon thing is not a ...

Compiz is a bug fest. There is no desktop environment that uses it as a default window manager, which should tell you something. I wouldn't touch it. Now that is just plain 'wrong'! Compiz, is far fro being 'a bug fest'. Only someone who doesn;t really understand Linux would say that. If you leave ...

You have got part of the easiest solution worked out. I ws trying to find a solution to the 'Links to Appimages' thing adn specifically Cura, because I run a lot of 3D printing 'stuff' (like modified Linux File Managers that show previews of .stl files. However, I have 'some' of my favourite Appimag...

Autorotate worked on Mint 21.2 Cinnamon but I've been messing with trying to get 21.2 Cinnamon working preperly on a couple of Desktops all week, so I haven't burned it to a Live Persistent USB stick yet to run it on a Surface. I can;t see any reason the Mint team would have killed Autorotate though...

I can just picture about 80% of forum members reading this and simply nodding their heads thinking it is close enough to the truth about us that it is more scary than funny - and 20% wondering what it all means . . :lol: I had attacks of the chuckles when I remembered the bits that sound like me . .

MurphCID wrote: ⤴Sun Jan 14, 2024 11:54 am . . . How I ended up with some many laptops is one of life's enduring mysteries.

It's a bit like odd socks

That looks magnificently horrendous, and I mean that in the nicest way. :D Some of the things I do to Mint are simply to see 'what' can be done. I like translucency, and I know one person on the forum wrote a script for Cinnamon some time ago that can set all the Apps to open with a set level of co...

While I was playing with Mint 21.3/Cinnamon 6 I did awful things to it. I know I shouldn't - and it looks Bloody Awful But I couldn't help myself. Mint 21.3 Cinnamon 6 with Firefox, and Dolphin mostly Translucent, the Panel Transparent, the Panel Menu isn;t showing because I have the Firefox Menu op...

Last time I used Variety it could not do Video Wallpaper - it was only able to change still images according to a timed interval. Did they change it so it also plays Video? Sorry, I hadn't realised you insisted on them being video wallpapers. The program hasn't been modified and only rotates static...

Last time I used Variety it could not do Video Wallpaper - it was only able to change still images according to a timed interval. Did they change it so it also plays Video? In the meantime I just dropped out of Mint KDE and booted into Mint Cinnamon 6 Beta. I can open a couple of Zenity GUIs I made ...

Yup, and in your defence, I've made the same mistake so many times I can't even make a joke at your expense :-) On the other hand though, people always seem to think the 'Command Line' is some sort of dark magic. But once you get used to reading carefully before pressing Enter - it is so easy to do ...

So out of curiosity, what happened when you did: in Terminal then tried: again?

I've been exploring KDE 6 (Plasma 6) for a few weeks, and Mint Cinnamon 6 for a few days, and the beta releases of both show a lot of promise. I haven't tried Wayland with Cinnamon 6 yet, but I have been switching between x11 and Wayland frequently in KDE 6 to see what if any problems I could experi...