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Cinnamon doesn't support the XML slideshow format for backgrounds or the screensaver.

Also in a terminal run
and report back the output.

You can delete them with impunity. The command below will clear them out.
You could drop that command (without the sudo) into a script in /etc/cron.daily/ or /etc/cron.weekly/ to automate cleaning.

Sorry, no way to do that in Nemo that I'm aware of.

Spearmint2 wrote: ⤴

Sun Oct 20, 2019 10:17 am

Look at how they did it for the Cosmos folder and files in it. The control file is there, follow that example. Just open file manager to File Folders, and Search for Cosmos.

And you won't find it unless you are running MATE

The only problem is that I have a lot o photos with the same name. Is there a way to symlink them directly numbered, like from 0001.jpg to XXXX.jpg ? That complicates things a little but yes. I think you might need to split the command to do jpgs and pngs seperately. COUNTER=1; IMAGES=$(find ~/Docu...

# Set STATIC_BACKGROUND to the path to your image of choice for static image mode STATIC_BACKGROUND="/usr/share/backgrounds/linuxmint/default_background.jpg" You need to amend the STATIC_BACKGROUND variable to the full path to your image of choice. For example if I wanted to use the image I've got ...

OK with Cinnamon 4.0.x you have two basic setups available 1) Grouped-Window-List providing launcher and window-list facility. If you allow pinned apps you can use it as left click to launch except if you've got a instance of a pinned app already open then you can right click to open a new instance ...

Thanks, Steve. You're a champ. I just can't spend more of my life on this problem. There's always the easy workaround - set your router to give a long lease. Short leases are only really needed when the DHCP server is likely to be serving more devices that available IP addresses - e.g. a public wif...

redalien0304 wrote: ⤴

Sun Oct 20, 2019 2:17 pm

Did not work for me.

Please expand...which bit did not work?

What Cinnamon version are you running in any case?

cinnamon --version run in a terminal will tell you.

The 1st renewal request is at 30 min. --- That's because your Mint is making a valid request (I think)... mine is not (I think). It's never exactly 30 minutes or 1/2 the lease time - the protocol requires some random variation in the time of the first renewal request - See https://tools.ietf.org/ht...

So in this order Installs git (I need to add that to the intructions) apt install git then Clone the repo to your hardrive git clone https://github.com/smurphos/nemo_actions_and_cinnamon_scripts.git then Create a local directory for executable scripts mkdir ~/.local/bin then Copy the script to the d...

This should do it find ~/Documents/Test/ -type f -iname "*.*p*g" -exec ln -s "{}" ~/Documents/Test/ \; In English Search ~/Documents/Test/ for files -type f that include the non case sensitive -iname pattern "*.*p*g" in their name and for each file found make a symlink -exec ln -s to the file "{}" i...

So you can't boot a 18.3 Live Session from USB? What happens when you try? My suggestion assuming you had a pre-removal of Network Manager Timeshift snapshot would have been to boot a Live Session and then use Timeshioft from the live session to attempt to restore the system. If no Timeshift snapsho...

What's the hardware? Please report output of inxi -Fxxxz run in a terminal.

In both your 18.3VMs and 19.2VMs, run sudo tcpdump -vvv > tcmpdump.log after booting up and leave it running on both for just over an hour. 19.2 - 1 hour lease. Oct 20 09:27:28 steve-VirtualBox dhclient[864]: DHCPREQUEST of 192.168.1.28 on enp0s3 to 192.168.1.254 port 67 (xid=0x41c13d05) Correspond...

Question - if you boot the 19.2 VM, then disconnect and reconnect manually does it reuse the same lease - i.e. do you retain the same IP? Another potential troubleshooting step. In both your 18.3VMs and 19.2VMs, run sudo tcpdump -vvv > tcmpdump.log after booting up and leave it running on both for j...

Symlinks to the folders doesn't work as I've already stated - it's no different to having the actual subfolders inside test. You need symlinks to the images inside the subfolders. All I've offered it a workaround that's light on diskspace, doesn't involve actually moving images and an example comman...

Spearmint2 wrote: ⤴

Sun Oct 20, 2019 2:53 am

Well, when it's all you have....

I'm not entirely sure of the relevance of using the file manager in tabbed mode or not is to this thread to be honest? Its about the limitations of Cinnamon's backgrounds settings module.

mate-screensaver-preferences What makes you think the OP is using MATE? The posting history indicates he's a Cinnamon user. @linuxheld - if you are indeed using Cinnamon see https://github.com/smurphos/nemo_actions_and_cinnamon_scripts#lock-screen-slideshow for a script to facilitate having a diffe...