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by smurphos
Fri Oct 04, 2024 4:47 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: How to delete Mint 22 which appears on my desktop automatically?
Replies: 7
Views: 208

Re: How to delete Mint 22 which appears on my desktop automatically?

Hypothesis, the deleted iso has been sat in trash all this time and you inadvertently double-clicked to mount it and didn´t notice. In a terminal report the output of these commands gio list trash:/// mountpoint /media/$USER/* 2. Right click, shows only Open, Compress, Unmount, and Properties. No Ej...
by smurphos
Fri Oct 04, 2024 4:20 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Never forget old files?
Replies: 9
Views: 199

Re: Never forget old files?

And in the context menu of pinned apps on the grouped window list for relevant file types.
by smurphos
Fri Oct 04, 2024 4:16 am
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: Battery symbol disappears after a while
Replies: 2
Views: 51

Re: Battery symbol disappears after a while

You can run mate-power-manager & to keep it going after the terminal is closed, or use the Alt-F2 run dialog to launch it instead.,

As to the crash this looks similar but was closed as no longer reproducible - https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour ... ug/1962575
by smurphos
Thu Oct 03, 2024 11:26 pm
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: ChatGPT: Okay or Nay?
Replies: 32
Views: 945

Re: ChatGPT: Okay or Nay?

The main drawback of Linux is that portable programs do not seem to be compatible with it. As my business involves a lot of travel, I constantly transfer all my D:/ drive from desktop to laptop and conversely, and that way I can use portable versions of my browser, my email client, my file manager,...
by smurphos
Thu Oct 03, 2024 9:38 am
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: [Solved] Disable recent files in Nemo under XFCE
Replies: 8
Views: 129

Re: Disable recent files in Nemo under XFCE

Create this file
~/.config/gtk-3.0/settings.ini

Add this content

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[Settings]
gtk-recent-files-max-age=0
gtk-recent-files-limit=0
Delete ~/.local/share/recently-used.xbel again

Log off and back in...
by smurphos
Thu Oct 03, 2024 3:22 am
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: Dell Support Assist
Replies: 1
Views: 67

Re: Dell Support Assist

Support Assist is Windows only... Most of the drivers for your machine are shipped as part of the kernel or the linux-firmware packages. Updates for those come via Update manager. BIOS level security updates are applied via microcode packages, which are also updated via Update Manager. Some firmware...
by smurphos
Thu Oct 03, 2024 3:05 am
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: System Notifications Volume
Replies: 2
Views: 44

Re: System Notifications Volume

The volume slider on that GUI does work, but just not when you press the buttons on that GUI screen to test the sound/volume of that particular sound. https://i.imgur.com/dcSIDZt.png To test it have a terminal window open and run the command notify-send "Make some noise!" at different slid...
by smurphos
Thu Oct 03, 2024 2:40 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: How to delete Mint 22 which appears on my desktop automatically?
Replies: 7
Views: 208

Re: How to delete Mint 22 which appears on my desktop automatically?

Kuen wrote: Wed Oct 02, 2024 11:26 pm How to get rid of it, please?
Right click the icon > Eject > unplug the USB stick.
by smurphos
Thu Oct 03, 2024 2:35 am
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: [SOLVED] Overriding desktop files does not work
Replies: 6
Views: 144

Re: Overriding desktop files does not work

OK lets start with the output of

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ls -la ~/.local/share/applications

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cat ~/.local/share/applications/gnucash.desktop
by smurphos
Thu Oct 03, 2024 2:12 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Where do I find my SSD directory?
Replies: 10
Views: 268

Re: Where do I find my SSD directory?

So you have a very simple file system setup. One physical disc...identified by linux as /dev/nvme0n1 Two partitions /dev/nvme0n1p1 about 0.5GB mounted as /boot/efi - https://wiki.archlinux.org/title/EFI_system_partition /dev/nvme0n1p2 is the rest of the disc and is mounted as / Your user-specific da...
by smurphos
Thu Oct 03, 2024 1:46 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Icon change
Replies: 40
Views: 1100

Re: Icon change

They wouldn´t. But someone might have packaged an all in one cursor theme that is cross-platform and could be used on Windows or Linux. Yaru preinstalled with Mint covers all bases. I have no idea why, maybe something to do with Ubuntu running as the Windows Linux Subsystem, or the other formats can...
by smurphos
Thu Oct 03, 2024 1:37 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Any benefit to ramdisk?
Replies: 47
Views: 1976

Re: Any benefit to ramdisk?

Its nothing to worry about and its not duplication, and its not taking up space. It is just a weird symlink pointing to the parent directory added by the x11-common package. It is there for some decades old backwards compatibility reason*, and about once every couple of years someone notices it and ...
by smurphos
Wed Oct 02, 2024 6:37 am
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: [SOLVED] Overriding desktop files does not work
Replies: 6
Views: 144

Re: Overriding desktop files does not work

Sanity check - are using using the repo or flatpak version of Gnucash?

If unsure these commands will help

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apt list gnucash

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flatpak list | grep gnucash
by smurphos
Wed Oct 02, 2024 6:17 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Where do I find my SSD directory?
Replies: 10
Views: 268

Re: Where do I find my SSD directory?

Hi Iconian, to help us help you understand whats going on and give you good advice we need a little bit of system info...this command run in a terminal will return information about all the devices (hard disks, SSDs, USB drives) and partitions on your system, both mounted and unmounted. inxi -dpou C...
by smurphos
Wed Oct 02, 2024 5:54 am
Forum: Beginner Questions
Topic: Mounting
Replies: 4
Views: 109

Re: Mounting

man mount says quite succinctly All files accessible in a Unix system are arranged in one big tree, the file hierarchy, rooted at /. These files can be spread out over several devices. The mount command serves to attach the filesystem found on some device to the big file tree. It does conjure up im...
by smurphos
Wed Oct 02, 2024 5:46 am
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: Looking for better live wallpaper program
Replies: 5
Views: 110

Re: Looking for better live wallpaper program

Still looks horribly slow. I'm intrigued. I will have a mess around with it sometime.
Pixelated images might be to do with the source video - it its heavily compressed etc.
by smurphos
Wed Oct 02, 2024 5:13 am
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: Looking for better live wallpaper program
Replies: 5
Views: 110

Re: Looking for better live wallpaper program

I do not have an alternative but the application is just a bash script so easily amended. I think the function that you want to look at is here. So it looks like it extracts all the frames from the first 10 seconds of a video. Depending on the video framerate this could be anything from 240 to 300 f...
by smurphos
Wed Oct 02, 2024 4:17 am
Forum: Networking
Topic: Cannot use NFS as Snapshot Location
Replies: 6
Views: 136

Re: Cannot use NFS as Snapshot Location

From the timeshift GUI

Image

I suspect this is because Timeshift´s method requires either Ext4 or BTRFS. I am not aware of a method to tell what the remote file-system is on an NFS share specifically.
by smurphos
Wed Oct 02, 2024 3:22 am
Forum: Software & Applications
Topic: [Solved] Disable recent files in Nemo under XFCE
Replies: 8
Views: 129

Re: Disable recent files in Nemo under XFCE

Try

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dconf write /org/gnome/desktop/privacy/remember-recent-files false
and also

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dconf write /org/cinnamon/desktop/privacy/remember-recent-files false
Both are toggled when you turn the setting on and off in the privacy settings module in Cinnamon

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